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Internet gambling restrictions attached to port billNews Story
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement last night on legislation to tighten maritime and port security regulations and, in a last-minute move, added an unrelated measure that seeks to ban Internet gambling. At the same time, House negotiators prevailed in their fight to strip out $4.5 billion in rail and mass-transit security funds included in the Senate provision. The port security and Internet gambling legislation was approved 409 to 2 in the House and on a voice vote in the Sena
Sep 30, 2006, 10:23 am - Lottery News

N.Y. Comptroller writes scathing letter to lottery boardNews Story
New York's top fiscal officer is warning a state agency that its delay in approving a VLT casino contract for Aqueduct racetrack is costing the state needed revenues and risking bankruptcy for the New York Racing Association. State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, in a scathing letter to the state Division of Lottery, strongly suggested that with a battle underway to craft a new Thoroughbred racetrack franchise in New York more is driving the VLT delay than normal bureaucratic reviews. It is
Sep 18, 2006, 10:45 pm - Lottery News

Lottery win ends in lawsuitNews Story
Former common-law couple at war after winning $21 million in 6/49 It's a perfectly ordinary-looking convenience store at the corner of King Street East and Union Street in Preston. One Stop Convenience sells junk food, cigarettes and basic groceries definitely no caviar or diamonds. But according to a lawsuit filed in a Brampton court, the owner of the modest convenience store has a lottery ticket worth $21 million and he's trying to keep it all to himself. Young Hee Cho is alleg
Sep 1, 2006, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Millionaire lottery ticket trash-diver keeps most of prizeNews Story
The million-dollar question has been the talk of the town for months: Should an 83-year-old Blackstone man share winnings from a discarded Massachusetts Lottery jackpot-winning ticket with the man who said he accidentally threw it away? When Edward St. John found the $1 million ticket last October after sifting through a trash can at local convenience store, his answer was a resounding no. But the family of Kevin Donovan , who said he tossed the Hold 'em Poker scratch ticket, took matters t
Aug 28, 2006, 10:20 am - Lottery News

Did the Oklahoma Lottery break its promise?News Story
Published by the Muskogee Phoenix August 17, 2006 The Oklahoma Lottery Commission may not be doing anything different than lotteries in other states in allowing trusts to claim prizes, but we don't want to be like other states. We want winners identified just as the commission said they would be identified with the minimum name and hometown. Despite stating on its Web site that winners cannot be anonymous, the commission allowed the June 17, $101.8 million Powerball winners to claim
Aug 18, 2006, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery chief to oversee county electionNews Story
In Ohio, the two Democrats on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections said Thursday that they would drop their drive to dump elections Director Michael Vu and his deputy, Gwen Dillingam, once the decision was made to hire Ohio Lottery Director Tom Hayes to oversee the general election. Hayes was hired by the Cuyahoga County commissioners. His compensation will be determined later. His hiring, however, raised questions about who is in charge of the board and whether Hayes, a jogging and tra
Aug 11, 2006, 2:27 pm - Lottery News

Brazil lottery cancels GTECH contract over Lottomatica acquisitionNews Story
GTECH Holdings Corp., which has agreed to be bought by Italy's Lottomatica, said on Tuesday that its contract to provide lottery services to its largest customer, Brazil, will not be renewed. The contract will expire on Aug. 13, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Its subsidiary, GTECH Brasil Ltda, has provided lottery services to the operator of Brazil's national lottery, Caixa Economica Federal, since 1997. Revenue from the contract accounted
Aug 9, 2006, 9:39 am - Lottery News

How a lottery win tore a family apartNews Story
Some lottery winners can't resist shouting their good fortune from the rooftops with a champagne-spraying celebration. Others prefer to keep their new-found wealth secret, fearful of begging letters and never-ending jealousy from friends and extended family. Clyde Baxter had no doubt which route he preferred in the wake of a staggering 6.75 million Lottery win seven years ago. While he felt obliged to tell his parents and two of his siblings, he refused to tell two other brothers, presumabl
Aug 3, 2006, 11:54 pm - Lottery News

BETonSPORTS Fires Jailed CEONews Story
Wagering firm distances itself from colorful founder and Costa Rica Embattled online gambling firm BETonSPORTS dealt its incarcerated chief executive out of the game with a terse announcement Tuesday that David Carruthers has been terminated. The company also put some distance between its operations and BETonSPORTS founder Gary Stephen Kaplan, who was charged with 20 felony violations and is currently on the lam. Mr. Carruthers, who was arrested in a U.S. dragnet nine days ago as he cha
Jul 26, 2006, 3:17 pm - Lottery News

Texas lottery raises concerns over GTECH's practices, ethicsNews Story
Lottery giant's merger with Lottomatica requires that Texas agree to keep its contract with the company GTECH Holding Corp.'s stock plummeted as much as 14 percent yesterday morning before rebounding after the Texas Lottery Commission and the Texas Department of Public Safety raised concerns about the company's business practices and ethical integrity. Investors, anticipating that Texas might adversely impact GTECH's pending $4.8-billion acquisition by Italy's Lottomatica SpA, sold off so
Jul 21, 2006, 10:45 am - Lottery News