Lottery News for October, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Arizona Lottery announces raffle with 'Early Bird' drawing. 7:29 am - The Arizona Lottery announced their "Holiday Edition" of the Millionaire Raffle game that will award more than $3 million in total cash prizes, including one $1 million grand prize and a special Early Bird drawing on Nov. 19 worth $100,000.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Five-time lottery winner accused of taking ticket from group. 9:52 am - A five-time lottery winner from Canada had his latest win disputed by a group alleging the winning ticket was part of a group purchase.
Cheated winner wants Texas Lottery to pay up. 8:46 am - A man cheated of his million-dollar jackpot wants the Texas Lottery to pay up.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Maryland Lottery director hired by D.C. Lottery. 9:20 pm - Buddy Roogow is leaving the Maryland Lottery, and has accepted the post of Executive Director of the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games.
Calif. Lottery pays out $264,000 after game show mistake. 11:00 am - The California Lottery will pay $264,000 in additional winnings to nine people whose names were mistakenly transposed on forms during a lottery game show.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Georgia man with flood damaged home wins lottery. 12:16 pm - A Mableton, Georgia, man whose home was heavily damaged by floods last month has won $250,000 playing the Georgia lottery.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
N.H. man turns lottery losses into 1,500 wins. 9:57 pm - A 64-year-old retiree from Salem, New Hampshire, has collected more than 1,500 prizes including food, gift certificates and other goodies under the state lottery's "Replay" program, which gives losing lottery tickets a second chance to win.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Store clerk accused of stealing $1M lottery ticket from customer. 5:58 am - Years of playing the lottery finally paid off for a Grand Prairie, Texas, man in May when he walked into a store with a million-dollar ticket, but in a double twist of tortured fortune, an opportunistic clerk may have cheated him out of his ticket and his treasure.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Texas Lottery unveils scratch-off ticket that benefits veterans. 8:33 pm - The Texas Lottery Commission on Nov. 9 -- just ahead of Veterans Day -- will start selling the first scratch-off ticket dedicated to a cause other than public education, where game profits now go.
Arkansas woman tries to cash in fake lottery ticket, arrested. 7:56 pm - A woman is arrested inside the Arkansas Lottery Headquarters Monday afternoon, and the local media's cameras were there for the arrest.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat store. 10:12 am - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
America's multi-state lottery titans agree to ticket-selling partnership. 9:13 am - The Mega Millions consortium and Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) have reached an agreement in principle to cross-sell Mega Millions and Powerball in all U.S. lottery jurisdictions.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Arkansas man among the first to win $100,000 lottery prize. 11:12 am - On Sunday, an Arkansas man won a $100,000 prize after buying a $5 Arkansas scratch-off lottery ticket -- the biggest prize anybody has won so far in the two-week-old lottery, and the biggest prize available in the lottery's current games.
China gets lottery fever after massive jackpot. 10:18 am - Water-cooler talk across China has been awash with theories on how to spend a fortune after someone from Henan province won nearly 360 million yuan (US$52.7 million) on Thursday.
Jacksonville man wins lottery jackpot - again. 9:42 am - A Jacksonville man bought a winning $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket Saturday -- six years after claiming a $250,000 prize from another game.
Iowa steelworkers group claims $1 million Powerball lottery prize. 8:42 am - A group of 10 co-workers from a Des Moines tire-manufacturing plant stepped forward Monday to claim a $1 million Powerball prize they'd won with a ticket purchased a local convenience store.
3 little numbers equal 1 big win for the N.C. lottery. 7:48 am - Three numbers are providing a hobby for lottery players and a big win for the North Carolina state lottery.
Texas Lottery players can now look forward to Powerball. 7:24 am - Texas Lottery players: Powerball tickets may soon be sold at a store near you.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Powerball coming to Maryland, Massachusetts. 6:36 am - According to local media reports, Powerball lottery tickets will soon be sold in Maryland and Massachusetts. Other Mega Millions states are sure to follow.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Greenbrier resort offers table games to guests, plans video lottery. 8:12 am - Less than a month after getting its licence to offer gambling, West Virginia's historic Greenbrier resort has opened the Tavern Casino, an onsite facility for guests with table games including blackjack, three-card poker and roulette.
Grocer, couple cash in on lottery. 7:33 am - Two big winners from New York recently claimed their separate multi-million dollar prizes at a press conference.
N.Y. family wins $3M top prize in lottery scratch-off game. 6:45 am - On Sept. 22, a Spring Valley family won $3 million, becoming the first winners of the top prize in New York's $10 Money scratch-off game.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Lottery winner gets help on plan to turn good fortune into lifelong prosperity. 2:45 pm - Given the prominent financial failings of many prior lottery winners, a lottery winner from New York accepted the guidance of a financial planner recommended by a local newspaper.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Convicted embezzler to forfeit Kansas Lottery prize. 11:36 am - A former radio executive embezzled large sums of money from his company in order to feed an out-of-control addiction to scratch-off state lottery tickets -- and now the $96,000 prize he won from all those games will be forfeited as restitution.
Friday, October 02, 2009
N.M. Lottery's Roadrunner Cash game changing this weekend. 3:45 pm - The New Mexico Lottery is changing the in-state Roadrunner Cash game to create a larger starting prize and jackpots that grow larger, faster.
Frequent lottery wins by retailers investigated. 8:03 am - In this 2-part video report, MSNBC revealed the findings of their investigation, in which the most frequent lottery winners were almost always retailers.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Kentucky Lottery draws airing on new TV stations. 6:26 pm - The TV stations which air the nightly Kentucky Lottery drawing program in the state's three largest media markets has changed, effective today.
