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    The time is now 4:47 pm | Lottery News for November, 2009Wednesday, November 18, 2009Arkansas lottery to sell Mega Millions tickets. 10:56 pm - The Arkansas Lottery Commission agreed Tuesday to sell Mega Millions tickets next year, making multi-state jackpots available to lottery participants four nights a week instead of two.~ Clerk's error makes N.J. man a $100,000 winner. 10:09 am - A Bridgeton, New Jersey, resident has a store clerk's error to thank for his purchase of a scratch-off lottery ticket worth $100,000. Tuesday, November 17, 2009Idaho Lottery Commission approves Mega Millions. 9:29 pm - The Idaho State Lottery Commission announced Tuesday that Mega Millions could start selling tickets in Idaho early as Jan. 31, 2010. Louisiana Lottery reports $7.6M in October lotto prizes. 9:09 am - Traveling to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, making upgrades to a recently purchased property and repairing a pick-up truck are just some of the ways winners of the Louisiana Lottery's scratch-off games plan to spend the more than $6 million claimed in October. Pa. clerk stole $48K in lottery tickets. 8:27 am - A woman faces a preliminary hearing on charges she stole $48,000 worth of instant-win Pennsylvania lottery tickets from the convenience store where she worked. Iowa joins multi-state Mega Millions lottery. 7:29 am - Iowa Lottery players will soon be able to make their first drawing for Mega Millions, a popular multistate game that paid a record $390 million jackpot two years ago. N.Y. Lottery looks to increase prizes through investment strategies. 7:26 am - The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor -- moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into investments such as stocks, corporate bonds, real estate and hedge funds and out of the safety of U.S. Treasuries. Saturday, November 14, 2009Kansas man claims state's largest Powerball lottery jackpot one day after winning. 10:05 am - Donald Damon, 70, a lifelong resident of Great Bend, Kansas, Friday claimed the largest Powerball jackpot ever won in the state just one day after the drawing. Wednesday, November 11, 2009Longtime Director of N.H. Lottery to retire. 4:09 pm - The longtime head of the New Hampshire state lottery is retiring after more than three decades with the agency. Woman buys cup of tea, wins $1 million jackpot. 3:33 pm - When Brandi Futch ordered a cup of sweet tea at a McDonald's restaurant in Goodlettsville, she had no idea just how sweet it would be. Poland proposes online gambling ban. 3:10 pm - Following weeks of political scandal, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is determined to ban online gambling in the EU-member state. New Jersey, California tickets will share $77M Mega Millions lottery jackpot. 3:01 pm - Two tickets matched all six numbers in the Nov. 10 Mega Millions drawing worth $77 million. One was purchased in New Jersey, and the other in California. Tuesday, November 10, 2009S.C. Lottery board votes to add Mega Millions. 11:26 pm - The South Carolina Education Lottery Commission voted Tuesday to move forward with the proposal to add the Mega Millions game to the line-up of games currently offered for sale in the Palmetto State. Monday, November 09, 2009Missouri Lottery director resigns amid rift with state commission. 10:52 pm - The director of the Missouri Lottery said Monday that he was resigning in response to the Lottery Commission's interest in changing the agency's direction. Sunday, November 08, 2009N.H. man wins lottery jackpot twice in four years. 9:42 am - A Navy war veteran who survived a jet fighter crash in Korea, was a POW who escaped his captors, and made it home to the U.S. to marry his true love and raise three boys, is the first New Hampshire resident to win a lottery grand prize twice. Police arrest four in Chicago lottery ticket scam. 8:53 am - Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims. Thursday, November 05, 2009Multi-state lottery shockwave sweeping America. 2:27 pm - In January 2010 the state lines that have been dividing the United States into "Powerball states" and "Mega Millions states" will be blurred by a cross-selling arrangement between the two multi-state lottery titans. In this exclusive report by Lottery Post, learn which states will be selling both games, and which ones will not. Wednesday, November 04, 2009Victim of stolen Texas lottery ticket says he knows how to get money back. 8:20 am - Willis Willis has an idea how he can get his money back from the store clerk who authorities say stole his $1 million winning lottery ticket. Tuesday, November 03, 2009First time player wins $5 million lottery jackpot. 7:30 am - A former New York resident was in town visiting friends last month when she purchased a Lotto ticket on a whim and scored the huge jackpot. Sunday, November 01, 2009Illinois Lottery Halloween raffle awards treats for grownups. 8:12 am - The Illinois Lottery held its fifth-ever Millionaire Raffle drawing yesterday -- the second on Halloween -- which instantly created four millionaires. |
