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N.D. Lottery wrestles with credit card buying optionsNews Story
The North Dakota Lottery's recently announced holiday sale of ticket subscriptions highlights a quirk in its operations. Gamblers are barred from using a credit card to buy tickets, but they may use plastic to play one of the lottery's four games dozens of times over an extended period. Credit card sales are limited to subscriptions, said Chuck Keller, the director of North Dakota's lottery. A subscription allows a gambler to buy a chance to play the same lottery number for 13, 26 or 52 strai
Dec 4, 2007, 7:10 pm - Lottery News

Member of "Watertown 34" wins lottery againNews Story
Athena Rush of Watertown, South Dakota, claimed the $200,000 Powerball prize she won in the drawing of November 10th. Rush matched the five white balls, but not the red Powerball to win the game's second prize. Rush missed the jackpot by one number, but said the excitement isn't any different than winning the jackpot. She would know. Rush was a member of The Watertown 34, the group of Minnesota Rubber workers that won a $50.9 million Powerball prize nearly five years ago. My feet still
Nov 27, 2007, 11:32 am - Lottery News

$3 million jackpot winner won't quit workNews Story
Lucky player at N.D. casino doesn't want to put employees out of a job Orville Erickson could hardly believe it but his wife, Dorothea, says she just had a feeling it might be a lucky weekend. Orville Erickson hit a $2.98 million jackpot on a nickel slot machine Saturday at the Dakota Magic Casino near Hankinson. Slots manager Darrell Mireau said it was the largest jackpot in the casino's 11-year history. I still can't hardly believe it, Orville Erickson, 63, said Monday from the
Oct 25, 2007, 11:21 am - Lottery News

Oregon waitress gets four years in lottery heistNews Story
A 33-year-old Beaverton, Oregon, waitress was sentenced to four years in prison today for robbing a lottery outlet and hitting the clerk over the head with a whiskey bottle. Angela Marie Kotoff pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery. As part of a plea deal, the case was removed from Measure 11 sentencing and charges of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon were dropped. According to police reports, Kotoff went to Dotty's Deli at 12266 S.W. Scholls Ferry Road in Tigard after s
Sep 26, 2007, 11:40 am - Lottery News

South Dakota adds new raffle gameNews Story
The first-ever state lottery raffle will be held later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of legalized lottery games in South Dakota. Lottery Advertising and Public Relations Director Mike Mueller says 100,000 of the $10 tickets will go on sale September 30th. The drawing for the top prize of $250,000 will be held on New Years Eve unless the tickets sell out much earlier. There will be five prizes of $25,000 and 250 prizes of $500. Mueller says the state stands to make $309,000 from
Aug 24, 2007, 10:22 am - Lottery News

Kansas woman wins $12.9 million Hot Lotto jackpotNews Story
When Lori Boyle stopped Wednesday to get gas and check on a lottery ticket, she had no idea she would walk out of the store a multimillionaire. The 42-year-old mother of two daughters, ages 19 and 13, had bought the Hot Lotto ticket July 4 in her hometown of Independence, but had kept the ticket in her purse without realizing the $12.9 million jackpot had been hit in Kansas. I'm too busy to watch television much and I usually only look at the newspaper to see who died and who had a baby,
Jul 11, 2007, 9:17 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/nc-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the North Carolina Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any North Caroli
Jul 4, 2007, 9:03 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery Millionaire Raffle sells outNews Story
If you haven't gotten a North Carolina Lottery raffle ticket, you're out of luck. Less than a week before the Fourth of July drawing, the state sold out of its entire stock of Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle tickets. Instead of selling paper tickets from a roll, retailers sold 500,000 numbers through the lottery's computer network. With four grand prizes of $1 million, a $20 ticket will carry a 1 in 125,000 chance of winning the top prize. For comparison, the odds of buying a winning mult
Jul 3, 2007, 6:27 pm - Lottery News

Nationwide, lotteries pay for far more than educationNews Story
Martha Keller is a 78-year-old resident of Altoona, Pa., who frequently takes the bus from her apartment on Walnut Avenue to her doctor's office or the local senior center. Chandni Amin is a 19-year-old nursing student at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Keller and Amin have little in common save for one thing both are benefiting directly from money raised by state lotteries. Lotteries help pay for everything from education to economic development, buses to baseball stadiums. In Penn
Jan 31, 2007, 12:06 am - Lottery News

Video gambling a cash cow even for smaller statesNews Story
Surveying West Virginia's rural neighborhoods, where most people lack broadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is a lottery cash cow. That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers. There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzing and blinking video lottery terminals the reason this small state, with one of the country's lowest per-capita incomes is home to one of the most lucrative lotteries in the natio
Jan 30, 2007, 8:09 pm - Lottery News