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Texas Lottery considers changing jackpot calculationNews Story
Amid complaints of false advertising, Texas Lottery Commission officials will consider changing the way jackpots are paid.C. Thomas Clowe, the commission chairman, said the three-member panel will discuss this month whether to guarantee the advertised jackpot or continue basing the grand prize on a percentage of ticket sales.Clowe said Thursday that he is concerned that miscalculating the lotto jackpot could undermine confidence in the game. We want the public to have confidence in the lottery,
Jun 10, 2005, 12:30 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery to implement changesNews Story
Sales for a new, enhanced version of the Powerball multi-state lottery game will begin on Sunday, August 28.The new game will feature the country's largest opening jackpot, faster growing jackpots and bigger second-tier prizes that will allow players matching five white ball numbers to win up to $1 million.The Powerball opening jackpot will increase from $10 million to $15 million. Powerball's second-tier prize for matching five white ball numbers (without matching the red Powerball number) will
Jun 1, 2005, 8:12 pm - Lottery News

Lotteries may gamble on InternetNews Story
Several states are considering selling lottery tickets on the Internet, a change that could usher in a new era in how such tickets are purchased.Online lottery sales would be limited to residents within the state. But Internet lottery sales are expected to spread quickly to other states if the practice proves popular, advocates of the idea say. Every state is looking at it, says Georgia state Rep. Terry Barnard, a Republican whose bill authorizing Internet sales passed the Georgia House of Repr
Apr 22, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Virginia provides reference for N.C. lottery decisionNews Story
With its peaked roofs, prairie-style windows and earth-toned stained glass, the elementary school situated on the poor side of town bears the hallmarks of the architect who inspired its design: Frank Lloyd Wright.Yet the soon-to-open Roanoke Academy for Mathematics and Science Elementary School is more than eye candy.What other elementary school, especially one where 98 percent of students receive free or reduced lunches, has a greenhouse? And halls that look like downtown streets, complete
Apr 18, 2005, 10:09 am - Lottery News

Store owners sell themselves $25.5 million Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
Their day started with a phone call that they had won $25,000.And it only got better from there.Twenty-five million dollars better, in fact, for the Hubbard family Richie, Bobbi, Brent, Brian, Angel and Stacey, the first people to buy a ticket in Tennessee and win the Powerball lottery jackpot.''That sure is a lot of zeroes,'' Richie Hubbard said as he and his family posed with an oversized cardboard check at the Tennessee Lottery's MetroCenter headquarters in Nashville yesterday afternoon.When
Apr 1, 2005, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Workers indicted in lottery scandalNews Story
Two former employees of an Exxon store in Gordonsville, Virginia have been indicted on charges of embezzling $14,000 in Virginia lottery tickets.An Orange County grand jury on Monday indicted Jessica Denise Adams and Tamirria Burke on one charge each of felony embezzlement, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.A problem was discovered in late October when brothers Bob and David Brockman, who run Brockman Oil Co. in Orange, decided to stop selling Virginia Lottery tickets at the
Mar 30, 2005, 10:53 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery committe selected and moving quicklyNews Story
House Speaker Jim Black chose his top lieutenant Monday to lead a special committee whose mission is to fashion an education lottery bill on which the full chamber can vote.Rep. Bill Culpepper, chairman of the House Rules Committee, will also chair the 14-member House Select Committee on the Lottery, which will meet for the first time this afternoon.Black won't serve on the committee but hand-picked its members. They will examine three lottery bills introduced this year in the House before gener
Mar 30, 2005, 8:38 am - Lottery News

Oregon Gov. pushes for larger lottery cutNews Story
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has become a quiet backroom force in pushing the Oregon Lottery into considering a nearly 50 percent cut in the share of proceeds that bars, restaurants and taverns receive for the lottery's new electronic slot games.People close to Kulongoski say he has become more involved than previous governors in determining how much money retailers should get for offering video gambling, which last year totaled $531 million in sales.Kulongoski prodded the new lottery director, Da
Mar 8, 2005, 9:51 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery looks to install kiosks at airportNews Story
About 84 million people pass through the Atlanta airport each year, and another 55,000 work there. But if they want to buy Georgia lottery tickets, they're out of luck.Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Georgia Lottery Corp. hope to change that by opening a lottery kiosk in the main terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Other airport locations could follow.Lottery officials are in talks with airport General Manager Ben DeCosta, who said he's open to the idea. If we can make sure it work
Mar 8, 2005, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Crumpled lottery ticket left in drawer wins $5.6 millionNews Story
Joanne and David Austin from West Hull collected a check for 3 million (US$5.6 million) nearly a month after becoming one of five ticket holders to share a 15 million (US$28 million) UK Lotto Superdraw on January 8th.The couple only realized they had a winning ticket after an advertisement in the local papers.The winning numbers were: 7, 10, 17, 23, 28 and 29.Joanne Austin said she had rummaged through her kitchen drawer and pulled out a pile of old lottery tickets, and was shell-shocked whe
Feb 7, 2005, 8:59 am - Lottery News