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Connecticut Investigates Lottery Mix-UpNews Story
Connecticut lottery officials were investigating why two lottery balls failed to drop during a drawing. The numbers 18 and 27 were placed in a mixer for the Cash 5 drawing Friday night, but they got stuck in the number chute as the other 33 balls fell into the chamber, said Diane Patterson, spokeswoman for the Connecticut Lottery Corporation.Patterson said lottery officials didn't notice the problem until after the drawing, which was televised live.Officials will honor tickets with winning com
Aug 9, 2003, 10:12 am - Lottery News

$3.4M Ticket Hasn’t Been CashedNews Story
The sale of a winning Megabucks ticket worth $3.4 million at the Brooklin General Store in June continues to cause a stir. For many in Brooklin and neighboring towns, rumors about the possible winner have filled a void of official news from lottery headquarters in Augusta.For a time, anyone leaving town on vacation or driving home in a new car immediately became the latest rumored winner.Christine Royce, an official with the Maine State Lottery Commission, said a lawyer claiming to represent the
Aug 7, 2003, 4:17 am - Lottery News

Davis names Washington lottery director to head Calif. lotteryNews Story
Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed the executive director of the Washington state lottery to head California's lottery.Anthony Molica, 54, succeeds Joan Wilson as director of the California lottery. Wilson left the lottery to become deputy secretary of Southern California operations for the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.Molica held a variety of jobs for the California lottery, including director of sales, from 1985 until he was appointed head of the Washington lottery in
Aug 7, 2003, 4:07 am - Lottery News

Lottery theft suspects get only a ticket to jailNews Story
With more than 70 court appearances in his 25 years on Earth, you'd think that William Michael Lomas would have figured out that he's not all that good at getting away with anything. Maybe it's just bad luck he keeps getting caught. Either way, he might have decided to take luck into his own hands when he allegedly broke into the South Wellfleet General Store May 11 with two other men and took the cash register and 24 books of lottery scratch tickets, with as many as 200 tickets in each book.Pol
Aug 6, 2003, 5:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery winners say they feared for their safetyNews Story
Teri and Cornell Davis were so nervous that someone was going to snatch their winning New Jersey Lottery ticket that they hired two armed off-duty police officers to drive them to the lottery office in Trenton to claim their prize. I really thought we were getting our money that day, Teri Davis testified yesterday before state Superior Court Judge Marguerite Simon, sitting in Bergen County, adding that she and her husband had already started receiving threats about the money.But instead of gett
Aug 6, 2003, 5:37 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Considers MultiplierNews Story
In the wake of Texas' choice to join the Mega Millions, the multi-state lottery game may be enhanced to include a multiplier option similar to the Powerball Power Play feature.The multiplier option is among the points to be negotiated before Texas officially becomes a Mega Millions member state. Powerball players can pay an extra $1 and if they win a lower-tiered prize, their winnings can be multiplied by up to five times. Rebecca Paul, a leader in the Mega Millions organization, indicated tha
Aug 5, 2003, 11:51 am - Lottery News

TEXAS JOINS MEGA MILLIONSNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission voted today to join 10 other states in the multistate lottery Mega Millions. Lottery officials expect $324.5 million in game ticket sales in Texas over 10 months starting this fall.To begin participating in the multi-jurisdiction lottery, certain steps must be taken including entering into an agreement with Mega Millions and adopting game rules, said Reagan Greer, executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission. We are looking at a late fall timeline for having th
Aug 5, 2003, 9:23 am - Lottery News

Lottery defendant: I'm angryNews Story
Suspicious co-workers are wrong, he testifiesFor three days, Jamal Townes listened quietly as his co-workers at Englewood Hospital accused him of being a modern-day Judas for allegedly hiding a $25 million winning lottery ticket from their office pool.Yesterday, the 27-year-old X-ray technician got the chance to respond. I felt attacked, I felt betrayed, angry, Townes, of Englewood, testified in Superior Court in Hackensack, recalling the moment he realized his colleagues had become suspicious
Aug 5, 2003, 5:16 am - Lottery News

State could be lucky winner of $100,000 Powerball prizeNews Story
Montana Lottery officials announced last week that a $100,000 winning Powerball ticket, which was purchased in Kalispell in March, has yet to be cashed. If the holder of the ticket doesn't come forward by Sept. 26 - six months after the drawing - the money is forfeited to the state.While unclaimed six-figure jackpots are rare, every year Montanans leave several hundred thousands of dollars on the table in lottery winnings they don't bother to collect.For the year ending in July 2002, the state s
Aug 5, 2003, 5:09 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery chiefs may double ticket pricesNews Story
The price of a National Lottery ticket could rise - and even double to 2 - under plans being considered by the operator Camelot, it emerged today.Lottery executives are concerned that they are missing out on huge profits because the cost of playing the main game Lotto has not risen with inflation.As sales of tickets for the game continue to fall, it is thought that a price rise could help to push the company's finances - and the money raised for good causes - back up.Chief executive Dianne Thom
Aug 5, 2003, 4:59 am - Lottery News