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Canada lottery almanac for 2009 publishedNews Story
For the first time, Canada lottery players can obtain a year's worth of lottery winning numbers for each of the country's games in one book. Lottery Post 2009 Lottery Results Almanac, Canada Edition (ISBN 978-0-9826272-1-1), available for purchase immediately by publisher Speednet Group, is offered just two weeks after the United States edition of the same title was published. Over time these lottery results almanacs will become increasingly important to daily lottery players, says Todd N
Feb 9, 2010, 6:14 pm - Lottery News

Friend charged with hiding lottery winner's deathNews Story
Just over a week ago, a friend of a missing Florida lottery winner approached an acquaintance with a chilling request, according to detectives: Dig up the body of the dead man in her backyard. That woman, Dorice DeeDee Moore, was charged Tuesday with trying to conceal the slaying of the man who disappeared after winning millions. The dead man, Abraham Shakespeare, was last seen in April more than two years after he took a lump-sum payment of $17 million on a $30 million jackpot. Moore has
Feb 3, 2010, 10:10 am - Lottery News

Lottery Results Almanac is first mainstream lottery results reference bookNews Story
Creator of Lottery Post publishes milestone title Lottery players finally get the respect they deserve, with the publication of the first in a series of lottery results reference books geared to a market that has been largely underserved by mainstream publishers. Lottery Post 2009 Lottery Results Almanac, United States Edition (ISBN 978-0-9826272-0-4), written by the creator of the popular Lottery Post web site and published by Speednet Group, is available for purchase immediately online a
Jan 24, 2010, 2:12 pm - Lottery News

N.Y. couple wins $162M lottery jackpot - but owes $1MNews Story
A Long Island couple will step forward Thursday to claim a $162 million jackpot, but Suffolk County already has their hands in winners' pockets. County officials say Richard and Mary Morrison owe $950,000 stemming from an audit of a homeless shelter they ran for 20 years. The audit showed the couple doled out bonuses to themselves, billed the county for benefits they later pocketed and bought big-screen televisions. An judgment against the couple was filed in 2008. An angry Richard Morr
Jan 7, 2010, 11:15 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery scholarships outstrip revenue; day of reckoning loomsNews Story
A day of reckoning is coming for students and parents over Tennessee's lottery scholarships that could result in tightened eligibility, reduced scholarship awards or both. After more than five years of steadily expanded eligibility and grant amounts, the annual cost of the program is outstripping the net revenue produced by the lottery. If no action is taken, that funding gap is now expected to overtake the lottery reserves some $385 million built up in the lottery's booming early years an
Dec 21, 2009, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery may be sold offNews Story
The Liberal government will sign a $200,000 deal with two investment banks within days to do preliminary research on privatizing all or part of the problem-prone Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Toronto Star has learned. While Bay Street has been tantalized by millions in lucrative commissions from the possible sale of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Hydro One, and Ontario Power Generation, informed sources say the provincial lottery monopoly is the main public asset in play.
Dec 21, 2009, 8:22 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery opposes state auditNews Story
The Ohio Lottery Commission has formally rejected State Auditor Mary Taylor's decision to launch a performance audit of the $2.4 billion agency without its blessing. Lottery Director Kathleen Burke said in a letter Saturday that the audit does not seem reasonable, necessary or a wise investment of public funds. Taylor's office notified the commission last week that it was beginning a performance audit, citing the uncertain nature of gambling revenue from month to month and an environment
Nov 23, 2009, 8:31 pm - Lottery News

China gets lottery fever after massive jackpotNews Story
Water-cooler talk across China has been awash with theories on how to spend a fortune after someone from Henan province won nearly 360 million yuan (US$52.7 million) on Thursday. The prize is the country's biggest jackpot to date. Despite the fact that the lucky winner has not yet stepped forward to claim the prize, many have an opinion on how much happiness it might buy. It's incredible. That was the verdict of 75 percent of the 140,000 people taking part in an online survey yesterday
Oct 13, 2009, 10:18 am - Lottery News

Scratch-off lottery tickets arrive in ArkansasNews Story
It turns out $48 million in lottery tickets doesn't look as impressive as it sounds. Shrink-wrapped pallets arrived by tractor-trailer Monday to a warehouse in southwest Little Rock, a first shipment of about 30 million scratch-off tickets destined to inaugurate the start of Arkansas' state lottery. Lottery officials dolled up the event for reporters, with two police cruisers and a motorcycle blaring sirens as a semi-truck decorated with balloons and streamers, like a homecoming parade flo
Sep 14, 2009, 11:15 pm - Lottery News

$500K lottery prize divides two elderly sistersNews Story
A passion for gambling shared by two once-inseparable octogenarian sisters has ended up dividing them, with the Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that one can sue the other for a share of a winning $500,000 lottery ticket. The court said 83-year-old Theresa Sokaitis, of Middletown, can try to enforce a written contract she signed with her 87-year-old sister, Rose Bakaysa, of Plainville, agreeing to split any gambling winnings. Sokaitis says she is due a share of a $500,000 Powerball jackpot
Aug 11, 2009, 9:27 pm - Lottery News