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N.J. Lottery to end live broadcast of midday drawingNews Story
Is $100,000 in cost-savings worth the loss of midday drawing broadcasts? Beginning Friday, the New Jersey Lottery Commission will stop airing live drawings at 1 p.m. on the state's public television network in an effort to save money. Only summaries of the results of the Pick 3 and Pick 4 lotteries will be shown on New Jersey Network at 1 p.m., the state Lottery Commission said today. Video of the actual drawings will only be available on the commission's Web site. The midday winning
May 11, 2009, 10:41 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Pick 4 lottery game starts next weekNews Story
A new four-digit daily numbers game for the North Carolina Education Lottery will begin next week. Top prize for the Carolina Pick 4 game starting April 17 will be $5,000. Players can either choose a number or have a sales terminal pick a random number. The lottery already has the Carolina Pick 3 and Carolina Cash 5 games. North Carolina also participates in the twice-weekly multistate Powerball game. Pick 4 drawings will air at 11:22 p.m. on television stations that already show the ot
Apr 9, 2009, 8:03 pm - Lottery News

Poll: 58% of N.C. residents tried lotteryNews Story
Survey finds N.C. play similar to national average; no increase in gambling addiction seen Even in Bible-Belt North Carolina, a majority of Tar Heel adults have played the state lottery, according to a study released Tuesday. Fifty-eight percent of North Carolina adults have played the lottery since it was created three years ago, said the first poll conducted for the N.C. Education Lottery Commission. North Carolina's rate of lottery play is similar to the national average, even though
Mar 25, 2009, 1:42 am - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery draws first raffleNews Story
The Oregon Lottery yesterday held the state's first-ever raffle, the appropriately-named St. Patrick's Day Raffle, resulting in one new millionaire and over one thousand other prize winners. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Oregon Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/or). The game has a total of 1,011 cash prizes, with a top prize of $1 million cash. Raffle tickets went on sale Jan. 25, 2009, and cost $10 each. The complete i
Mar 18, 2009, 10:58 am - Lottery News

Calif. Lottery introducing new game showNews Story
After nearly 24 years and millions in prizes, the California Lottery is replacing its Big Spin television game show with what it hopes will be a more attractive, four-part successor, Make Me a Millionaire. The weekly half-hour show will air for the first time Saturday on 10 stations in the same 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. time bracket as The Big Spin. Over the years, in the realm of game shows, we've seen a lot of newer, more exciting shows come along, said Alex Traverso, a lottery spokesman. This
Jan 16, 2009, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery raffle made a millionaire tonightNews Story
Idaho Lottery conducts first USA holiday raffle drawing of 2008 The Idaho Lottery conducted its $1,000,000 Raffle drawing Tuesday evening, and created one instant millionaire. The winning numbers are available Lottery Post's Idaho Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/id). In addition to the $1 million top prize, there will be four winners of $15,000, 500 winners of $300, and 150 winners of $100. All prizes are lump-sum cash payments. A total of 250,000 tickets were avail
Dec 31, 2008, 1:12 am - Lottery News

Winners share $3 billion in Spain's El Gordo lotteryNews Story
Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery billed among the world's richest dished out some 2.32 billion (US$3.23 billion) in prizes. The top prize of the lottery dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) went to holders of tickets bearing the number 32365 which appears on 1,950 tickets, each winning 300,000 (US$418,000). Thousands of others cashed in on runner-up prizes. The top number was sung out at just after noon Monday by pupils of Madrid's Saint Ildefonso Scho
Dec 23, 2008, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Triples drawn again in Maryland LotteryNews Story
Triples are on a roll in Maryland. Sunday night's winning Pick 3 numbers were 5-5-5, making it the second triple drawn in just one week. That brings the total number of triples drawn since the beginning of the current fiscal year to eight. Add in a quad in the Pick 4 drawings, and The Maryland Lottery has paid out $17.6 million to players of triples and quads since the first of July. Triples have been very frequent this year, said Lottery Director Buddy Roogow. It seems like we've h
Nov 3, 2008, 5:27 pm - Lottery News

Young lottery winner discusses investment challengesNews Story
After winning million dollar lottery, Wall Street woes bring troubled times Includes video report By Louis Jay Louis Jay is a sophomore pre-business major at Towson University and the former online editor of The Towerlight. About a year ago you would have seen me on television promoting the Maryland Lottery, Let Yourself Play. You may have heard the story. I spilled a Tropicana Coolatta on myself. My grandmother, in her old Jewish wisdom, always said that if you spill something on
Oct 22, 2008, 9:21 pm - Lottery News

Sweet dreams in hard times add to lottery salesNews Story
When gasoline prices shot up this year, Peggy Seemann thought about saving the $10 she spends weekly on lottery tickets. But the prospect that the $10 could become $100 million or more was too appealing. So rather than stop buying Mega Millions tickets, Ms. Seemann, 50, who lives in suburban Chicago and works in advertising sales for a financial Web site, saved money instead by packing her lunch a few days a week, keeping alive her dreams of hitting a jackpot and retiring as a multimillionair
Sep 14, 2008, 9:49 pm - Lottery News