N.J. Man Settles Suit Over Lottery Jackpot

A New Jersey police officer agreed to accept about $3 million to settle his lawsuit against the Texas Lottery Commission after it refused to pay up on his winning $10.4-million ticket. Scott Wenner bought the winning ticket in 1994 from a now-defunct, multi-state ticket agent in Croyden, Pa., not far from his home in Riverside, N.J. But the Texas Lottery claimed that the seller, Pic-A-State, illegally sold the winning ticket. When Wenner purchased the ticket in November 1994, Pic-A-State’s sales of interstate tickets were protected by a court order, which was later lifted.