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GTech has winning lottery ticket, checkered pastNews Story
A Rhode Island company that practically built the nation's state lottery business just added the Florida Lottery as the missing gem to its crown jewels.GTech Corp. last week became the successful bidder to run the Florida Lottery system. With Florida in hand, the company will run all five of the country's biggest state lottery systems - New York, Texas, Georgia, California and Florida. Altogether, GTech will operate 26 of the 36 state lottery systems, plus the Washington, D.C., system. We genera
Sep 8, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News

Georgia's Lottery Director to QuitNews Story
Rebecca Paul, who started Georgia's lottery and has been its only director for 10 years, is jumping ship to run the startup lottery for neighboring Tennessee. She has informed the governor, Dan McLagan, a spokesman for Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, said. Mrs. Paul has indicated she is looking for a new challenge. We certainly wish her well. Earlier Sunday, two sources told The Associated Press Paul was negotiating with Tennessee officials to head their new lottery and that she was expected to tak
Sep 8, 2003, 3:38 am - Lottery News

Last NJ Lotzee drawing will be Sept. 13News Story
The last drawing of the New Jersey Lottery's Lotzee game will be Sept. 13. The game is being discontinued due to declining sales that do not support fixed prize levels, officials said Friday.Sales for the $2 game, which debuted in 1998, dropped by more than 32 percent in fiscal year 2003 compared to the previous year. Just over $16 million worth of Lotzee tickets were sold compared to almost $24 million in fiscal year 2002. A game cannot survive when the average draw sales are less than the top
Sep 5, 2003, 9:50 am - Lottery News

Lottery board narrows list of CEO candidates to threeNews Story
The list of candidates for the top job in running Tennessee's lottery has been whittled from 15 to three, but lottery officials declined yesterday to say who the finalists are.One official said Tennesseans could rest assured that the chief executive officer candidates would be well-screened and that the board had no choice but to handle it this way.Lottery board spokesman Will Pinkston was asked why there will not be an opportunity for a public review of candidates or the board's selection.''Unf
Sep 5, 2003, 3:27 am - Lottery News

Lottery winnings in middle of disputeNews Story
Ruby Bosher became a millionaire five years ago when she and her husband won the Ohio lottery.Today, her winnings are in a trust, she is in a nursing home suffering from dementia and her children are in court battling over control of her estate.The sibling rivalry played out yesterday before Lake County Probate Judge Ted Klammer, who ordered the family to get along for their mother's sake, even if it was only temporarily.At issue is $3.6 million worth of Super Lotto winnings that Ruby and her hu
Sep 4, 2003, 10:27 am - Lottery News

Texas couple claims $49 million prizeNews Story
Bryon Woods pleaded with his wife Barbara to sell him another $5 worth of lottery tickets at the store where she worked. Good thing she agreed. The Eagle Lake couple on Wednesday claimed a winning Lotto Texas ticket worth $49 million. After tearfully accepting an initial check of $2.9 million, the couple will collect $1.95 million every year for the next 24 years.Bryon Woods said he chose the annuity instead of the lump sum cash payment option because I intend to live another 24 years. I want m
Sep 4, 2003, 3:34 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery revenue tops $2 billion for second straight yearNews Story
New Jersey Lottery sales topped the $2 billion mark for the second consecutive year even though sales of tickets for both the Pick 6 Lotto and Lotzee games dropped significantly. The lottery, which is New Jersey's fourth-largest revenue producer, brought in $764 million to state coffers in the fiscal year that ended in June. That was an increase of $10 million over the previous year. The biggest sales gains last year were registered for the state's instant games, which increased by 16.5 percent
Sep 4, 2003, 3:32 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Rejects Lottery Deal with GeorgiaNews Story
The Tennessee lottery board decided unanimously this afternoon to decline a partnership with the Georgia lottery perhaps delaying the startup of games in Tennessee until March.Board members said the deal made sense from a business perspective because it would have provided more net revenue to be used for scholarships for Tennessee students.Although the state Attorney General's Office and the outside counsel consortium led by Waller Lansden Dortch Davis agree a joint venture is legal and allowe
Sep 3, 2003, 6:06 pm - Lottery News

Merchants: Not enough terminals for N.D. lotteryNews Story
Many North Dakota merchants, who are hoping a new state lottery will draw more customers, are fretting there wont be enough ticket terminals to go around -- and state officials say theyre right. If (a lottery machine) is available to my competition, then that is a tool that I must have, said Bob Johnson of Cavalier, who owns a convenience store and off-sale liquor outlet near the Icelandic State Park. If they put one in the Cenex in Cavalier, I need one. North Dakota may not have enough lotter
Sep 3, 2003, 3:49 am - Lottery News

Lottery deal may lead to lawsuitsNews Story
Tennessee's lottery board is pushing ahead with preparations for an unprecedented partnership with Georgia despite escalating criticism of the arrangement and no definitive answer as to whether it would be legal. That question is expected to be answered by Attorney General Paul G. Summers in a formal legal opinion before Friday, when the seven-member board of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. has scheduled a vote on acceptance of Georgia's offer.If given the legal green light, there is an ar
Sep 2, 2003, 4:04 am - Lottery News