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Lottery pays off for poor kidsNews Story
Children in one of Denver's oldest and poorest neighborhoods are getting a new playground, thanks in part to Great Outdoors Colorado. This project is very near and dear to the hearts of people who live in the Swansea neighborhood, said City Councilwoman Judy Montero, who represents the community. People have been working on this project since 1995. The GOCO board announced Monday it will award $200,000 toward the $427,000, two-acre playground and park, which is to be completed in about a year.
Dec 9, 2003, 4:53 am - Lottery News

French lottery to pay upNews Story
Games company Francaise des Jeux said it would compensate a handful of people who mistakenly thought they had won the jackpot because of printing errors on a batch of black jack scratch cards.Eight people in the Lorraine region of eastern France will be awarded between 2,000 and 40,000 euros for having had their dreams of wealth raised and dashed.The company devised a way to calculate how much distress the players had suffered linked to the amount they thought they had won and how long they were
Dec 8, 2003, 4:31 am - Lottery News

New lottery has Huntsville residents buying, playingNews Story
When the Texas Lottery Commission revamped the Texas Lotto format in May, the game was advertised as a Whole New Ball Game. On Wednesday, several more new balls were thrown into that mix with the introduction of the Mega Millions multistate lottery game.Mega Millions, a massive game that is also played by residents in 10 other states, was introduced to Texans on Wednesday amid busy ticket sales.The first drawing, which is for a pot of $44 million, is set for tonight.While the rules of the game
Dec 5, 2003, 5:56 am - Lottery News

Texas Mega Millions Sales Begin TodayNews Story
For Texas Lottery lovers, there's a whole new ball game today.Beginning at 6 a.m., tickets were going on sale for Mega Millions, Texas' first foray into high-stakes, multistate lotteries.While chances for Mega Millions and the traditional Lotto Texas cost the same $1 the odds of winning the new game are much lower.But with the additional risk comes the lure of a substantially higher jackpot a minimum of $10 million, compared with Lotto Texas' $4 million minimum. People who play the lottery like
Dec 3, 2003, 5:50 am - Lottery News

Audit finds S.C. lottery operates efficientlyNews Story
An audit of South Carolina's nearly 2-year-old lottery found only a few areas for improvement in cost controls.The South Carolina Education Lottery agreed with almost all the recommendations made in the audit released Tuesday and has implemented many of them, commission Chairman John C.B. Smith Jr. wrote in his response.The lottery has kept costs below the statutory maximum of 15 percent of revenues, but should look at cell phone and car usage for potential cost savings, the audit said. Smith sa
Dec 3, 2003, 5:25 am - Lottery News

Company picked to operate North Dakota state lotteryNews Story
Scientific Games International, which sells Powerball lottery tickets in Montana, Iowa and four other states, has been chosen to provide equipment for North Dakota's entry into the game next year.An advisory board voted Monday to pick Scientific Games over two competitors, GTech Corp. and Intralot USA, as the state's lottery supplier.State Rep. RaeAnn Kelsch, R-Mandan, the chairwoman of the board, said the company offered a more favorable commission rate than its competitors. Scientific Games c
Dec 2, 2003, 4:19 am - Lottery News

Instant ticket grand-prize lottery game still under wrapsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials planning an instant ticket grand-prize game, probably as early as February, are still being mum about the details.Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul told reporters after a Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. meeting yesterday that details of the game and the amount of payoff it would provide are still being worked out. However, it is expected to be a drawing from among entries in such games as pull-tabs and scratch-offs, which reveal instantly whether a player is a winner. Most l
Dec 2, 2003, 4:14 am - Lottery News

$24,000 stolen in lottery schemeNews Story
Authorities are looking for a man and woman who duped a Lake Worth-area, Florida businessman into withdrawing $24,000 from his bank in a scheme involving a winning lottery ticket.Sheriff's detectives said the woman approached Claro Hernandez on Sept. 15, claiming she was an illegal immigrant. She asked if he knew of an office in West Palm Beach that offered immigration services. Hernandez, 62, a restaurateur, said he did not. But as the two spoke, a man walked up and joined the conversation, Det
Nov 26, 2003, 4:19 am - Lottery News

Board chooses GTECH, Scientific Games to run Tennessee lotteryNews Story
Tennessee's lottery will have two industry giants -- GTECH Corp. and Scientific Games International -- create and run its games for the first seven years.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. board unanimously voted Friday to award the contracts based on the recommendation of an internal committee that spent a month reviewing proposals.GTECH got the contract for online games; Scientific Games will run the instant ticket games.The value of the contracts is based on a percentage of net sales. Tenn
Nov 22, 2003, 8:31 am - Lottery News

GTECH scrutinized in bid for Tennessee lottery contractsNews Story
GTECH Corp., the lottery giant bidding for Tennessee contracts, has been praised for quick startups and leading technology.But the company has also been criticized for aggressive lobbying and a series of missteps in the 1990s that led to the criminal conviction of one employee and culminated in an overhaul of top managers three years ago. I don't think their past record should reflect adversely on ... the present company, although it does require someone to look at them with a little more due di
Nov 20, 2003, 7:00 am - Lottery News