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Virginia Lottery drawings now streamed live on FacebookNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Virginia Lottery now is streaming its drawings live on its Facebook page, in addition to its Web site. In order to view the live video stream on the Virginia Lottery Facebook page, visitors must first click the Like option on the page, according to a lottery news release. The live streams began on Sept. 14, and can be viewed daily at 1:59 and 11:00 p.m. Viewers can watch the Pick 3, Pick 4, and Cash 5 drawings, and also can watch the Mega Millions drawings on Tue
Sep 23, 2011, 9:30 am - Lottery News

W.V. Lottery ends 3-year losing streakNews Story
A three-year money-losing streak for the West Virginia Lottery has come to an end, as the agency saw an upswing in revenues for the just completed 2010-11 budget year, Lottery commissioners learned Tuesday. Fueled by the enormous success of table games at Charles Town's Hollywood Casino, and by a surge in sales for traditional scratch-off games, the Lottery saw a 3 percent jump in total revenue for the budget year, for a total of $1.39 billion. Things are picking up, it looks like, a litt
Jul 29, 2011, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $171 millionNews Story
By Todd Northrop The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing happened last night without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Saturday's drawing to grow to an estimated $171 million, with a cash option of $88.7 million. Wednesday night was the 9th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. Even though there were no jackpot winners, 6 lucky tickets matched the first five numbers for a $200,000 second-place prize: 1 from Florida, 1 from Idaho, 1 from Nebraska, 1 from Washingt
May 26, 2011, 7:11 am - Lottery News

W.Va. lottery winner buys trucks for fire depts.News Story
A West Virginia Powerball lottery winner known for his generosity recently turned his charitable ways toward the purchase of new vehicles and equipment for area fire departments. On Thursday, W. Randy Smith gave away a lot more of his money, this time, a little more than $1 million. Six Berkeley County fire departments each got a Ford F-350, four-wheel-drive, four-door pickup truck equipped with snow plows and walk-behind snow blowers. The idea of such specially equipped vehicles is to
May 15, 2011, 8:44 am - Lottery News

Winning Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $319M sold in NYNews Story
Largest payout for a single winning ticket in game's history Update, 12:29 pm: It was a quick pick, plus additional store info where winning ticket was sold. By Todd Northrop A New York lottery official said a winning ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth $319 million has been sold at a variety store in Albany, N.Y. New York Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said the winning jackpot ticket for Friday's drawing was sold at Coulson's News Center, located just a few block
Mar 26, 2011, 9:41 am - Lottery News

Lottery error prompts payout on two sets of winning numbersNews Story
By Todd Northrop An incorrect number reported by the Virginia Lottery for Wednesday night's Win For Life drawing has prompted the participating states of Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia to payout on two sets of winning numbers. Win For Life is a multi-state lottery game played in Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. Players choose six numbers from 1 to 42, and can win one of eight different prizes, ranging from $2 to the Grand prize of $1,000 a week for life. The third number drawn for the
Jan 6, 2011, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery raffle creates 3 millionairesNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Virginia Lottery's annual holiday raffle game, New Year's Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made three instant millionaires. The winning numbers for all raffle prizes can be found on Lottery Post's Virginia Lottery Results page. A total of 330,000 of the $20 tickets were available for purchase. According to the Virginia Lottery, all of the tickets were sold out prior to the drawing. Lottery spokesman John Hagerty says the last $20 ticket was sold shortl
Jan 1, 2011, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

West Virginia Lottery move delayedNews Story
It's going to be at least another year before the West Virginia Lottery moves out of leased space in Charleston to a 13-story building it purchased earlier this year on the other side of town. Lottery Director John Musgrave says a lot of renovation work is required at City Center West and the mandated changes have taken a long time to design and will take a long time to complete. Musgrave says restrooms in the building will have to be made handicap accessible, a fire suppression system mus
Dec 6, 2010, 12:39 pm - Lottery News

Former W.V. Lottery inspector admits lying to fedsNews Story
A former inspector with the West Virginia Lottery Commission admitted Wednesday that she lied to investigators about taking money from a former state delegate who ran an illegal gambling ring in West Virginia and Kentucky. Carolyn A. Kitchen, 55, of Chapmanville, admitted that she lied to investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service when they questioned her about her involvement with Joe C. Ferrell in February 2008. Among other things, they asked
Nov 17, 2010, 10:45 pm - Lottery News

W. Va. official wins $79M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
For about two hours, Berkeley County Magistrate W. Randy Smith believed he had come close, but that he didn't win Saturday's $79 million Powerball jackpot. On call Sunday morning at the Berkeley County Judicial Center to hold arraignment hearings, Smith asked his assistant, Mary D. Angelo, to look at the ticket that he bought from the ROCS store at 39 Kelly Island Road near Martinsburg. The ticket matched the winning numbers of 7, 10, 12, 22, 27 and the Powerball 26. Smith said the compute
Aug 24, 2010, 9:18 am - Lottery News