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Marine credits karma for $2.9 million slots jackpotNews Story
A couple of days before he hit a jackpot of nearly $3 million, Cpl. Alexander Degenhardt learned he'd been accepted as a bone marrow donor to an anonymous patient. They asked me if I was sure I wanted to go through with it, because it's kind of painful, but what's a little pain if it will save someone's life? the U.S. Marine said Friday. I look at this as kind of good karma for that. Degenhardt's karma was worth more than $2.8 million, the second biggest jackpot for Bally Technologies, w
Feb 28, 2012, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Delaware legalizes sports bettingNews Story
Table games are next; Maryland lawmakers worried Standing in front a screen displaying lines for the NFL, NBA and MLB, Gov. Jack Markell Thursday signed a sports betting bill into law at a ceremony inside the VIP room at Delaware Park racetrack and casino. After signing the legislation Markell said his administration looks forward to working with the state's three racinos to make the Delaware sports lottery as successful as possible. There is tremendous interest in the sports lottery t
May 15, 2009, 8:45 am - Lottery News

Police: Store clerk conned La. lotto winner out of $800,000News Story
A lottery loser may have been a big winner after all. A joint investigation by Louisiana State Police and the state's Lottery Corporation determined on Wednesday that a clerk at a Belle Chasse convenience store conned a jackpot winner out of his ticket and a payoff of $800,000. The purchase of the ticket took place in late May, according to local media sources. When the owner brought the ticket back to the store to claim his prize, the clerk allegedly told him he was mistaken and kept t
Sep 26, 2008, 11:29 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas lottery certified for November ballotNews Story
The Arkansas secretary of state's office certified a proposed constitutional amendment for the November ballot Monday that would allow voters to decide Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's measure for a state-run lottery to fund college scholarships. Only an anti-democratic move from some other party to try to get this initiative thrown off the ballot will deny Arkansas voters the right and the opportunity to decide this issue for themselves, Halter said at a Capitol news conference announcing certificat
Jul 23, 2008, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Arkansas Lt. Gov. pushes lottery proposalNews Story
Four times members of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's staff have traveled to various corners of Arkansas to speak about the lottery proposal. When college has never been more important to Arkansas, it's also never been more expensive. Halter says Arkansas needs more college graduates. And the way to fund that is to keep some of the dollars flying out of Arkansas to neighboring states lottery games. Halter says, In Texas alone they raised more than a billion dollars for education last year off of t
Jul 15, 2008, 6:54 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lt. Gov. proposes state lottery in '08News Story
On Tuesday, Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter said he hopes to have a state lottery on the ballot by 2008. That gives Arkansas voters the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not the state should have a lottery, with all of the proceeds going to scholarship assistance to Arkansas students, said Halter. Currently Arkansas is only one of eight states across the nation without a state lottery in place. Neighboring Mississippi and Alabama are among others. But state
Sep 19, 2007, 3:02 pm - Lottery News

In 25 years, Arizona Lottery raised $5.5BNews Story
It was created in 1981, backed by businessmen looking for a tax break. Twenty-five years later, the Arizona Lottery has made hundreds of people millionaires while awarding $2.9 billion in prizes. It has contributed more than $1.8 billion to state and local projects and programs, far surpassing the annual revenue hopes of that original group of businessmen. From new roads and bus shelters to programs for neglected children and funding for state parks, lottery dollars have touched the liv
Jul 18, 2006, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Lottery millionaire Bud Post diesNews Story
William J. Bud Post, the Venango County man who won millions in the Pennsylvania Lottery and then endured a fortune's worth of troubles, has died.Post, 66, of 249 Grant St., Franklin, died Sunday morning at UPMC Northwest in Seneca.Post became a local celebrity and later gained nationwide notoriety after winning $16.2 million in the lottery in 1988. An extravagant spending spree followed, then Post's life began to unravel.His sixth wife moved out on him, his brother was convicted of trying to
Jan 17, 2006, 7:13 am - Lottery News

Computerized lottery drawing glitch picks same numbers for 3 daysNews Story
Problem clearly demonstrates how computerized drawing faulty program code can go undetected even for something as obvious as three consecutive days of repeating numbers.A computerized drawing system glitch caused the Kansas Lottery's Pick 3 game to draw identical numbers in the same order three days straight, from Dec. 16 through Sunday.Apparently some players caught on. By day three of picking 5-0-9, ticket sales were $12,223, and the payout was $23,480, which is 192 percent of sales. The usu
Dec 23, 2005, 7:22 am - Lottery News

Gang used winning Pick 4 lottery tickets to launder drug moneyNews Story
Federal authorities say they have broken up a cocaine-trafficking ring that laundered more than $270 million over 15 years in an operation that began in Michigan and branched out across the country.The organization, known on the streets as the Black Mafia Family, had ties to the rap music industry, and its two leaders have appeared in rap videos, said Robert L. Corso, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency in Detroit. They were in fact just another group of thugs who brought fear
Oct 28, 2005, 10:02 pm - Lottery News