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GTech gets deal for new online terminals from Spain’s national lotteryNews Story
GTech Corp of West Greenwich, R.I., has won a sale to provide new online lottery terminals to Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado (STL), the operator of the online system for the National Lottery in Spain. According to the company, the deal could be worth as much as $9 million.Under the terms of the agreement, STL will replace 2,500 Spectra online lottery terminals with 2,500 Altura terminals. In addition, GTech will continue to provide STL with terminal maintenance and repair services.STL
Jan 9, 2004, 10:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery-ticket company wooing TennesseeNews Story
Already the country's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, Scientific Games International is now moving into online gaming and hopes to make Tennessee its newest customer.The Alpharetta, Ga.-based company is one of the companies competing for both the instant and online contracts for the new Tennessee games. Lottery giant GTECH Corp. of Rhode Island is also in the bidding.Scientific Games provides in-stant tickets for two-thirds of state lotteries and more than 50 other countries, and op
Nov 17, 2003, 4:33 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery joins the effort to find missing childrenNews Story
The Ohio Lottery will join the search for missing children this week.Working with the Northern Ohio Amber Alert, the Lottery Commission will display the names and descriptions of abducted children in a crawl across the screens of its sales terminals.Lottery tickets also will have information about the abducted children printed on them, Waite Hill Police Chief Arnold Stanko said at a public forum on missing children yesterday at the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. Stanko is on the
Nov 10, 2003, 4:54 am - Lottery News

Cohen says Tenn. lottery tickets will be on sale by Jan. 27News Story
The Tennessee Legislature's leading lottery advocate predicted Thursday that Tennessee will be selling lottery tickets by Jan. 27 and said the startup date could have been Jan. 1.Sen. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, said the state lottery board had dramatically underestimated the skill and speed of lottery CEO Rebecca Paul when it set Feb. 10 as the target startup date. He described Paul as a workaholic working 24/7 with the best lottery team ever assembled. Feb. 10 is the first deadline Paul, former G
Nov 7, 2003, 4:37 am - Lottery News

S.C. makes bid to help Tenn. lotteryNews Story
The South Carolina lottery, much like its neighbor in Georgia, has pitched the idea of helping out with the Tennessee lottery startup.Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) President Rebecca Paul was lured away from the successful Georgia Lottery Corporation in early September. The week before, the upstart lottery board here voted against the notion of a partnership with Paul and Georgia.South Carolina lottery officials were openly critical of the potential Georgia-Tennessee partnership
Nov 5, 2003, 5:31 am - Lottery News

Whole Lotto troubleNews Story
As California jackpot fever heats up, sellers hope problem-plagued new machines keep workingWith today's California SuperLotto Plus lottery jackpot at $96 million, convenience store manager Gurjit Singh was hoping for a little luck.And not just because he wants to win.Singh also was concerned about the condition of his new satellite-fed lottery ticket machine, which has failed to dispense tickets a few times since it was installed last month.Staring at the biggest jackpot of the year, even a sho
Oct 22, 2003, 3:47 am - Lottery News

Russia's First Lottery Bill Moves to SenateNews Story
The State Duma on Friday passed in the third reading a bill on lotteries that will be Russia's first attempt at federally regulating the industry if approved by the Federation Council and signed by the president.The proposed law regulates the lottery industry in Russia by specifying types and standards of lotteries, rules for organizing lotteries, the system for exercising control over the organization of lotteries, the liability of lottery operators and other measures.Lotteries are divided into
Oct 20, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

S.D. Lottery investigating system failureNews Story
The South Dakota Lottery has asked a private company to explain why connections to the central lotto computer system failed, leaving many retailers unable to sell lotto tickets for nearly 2 1/2 hours last Saturday night.It was the third network outage since early July, said Clint Harris, executive director of the Lottery.Phone lines and equipment connecting the Lottery and retail outlets to a central lotto computer system in Dover, Del., and backup site in Sharon Hill, Pa., failed.It kept most o
Oct 17, 2003, 4:40 am - Lottery News

LA Lottery Will Honor Misprinted Game TicketsNews Story
Tickets for three state lottery games - Pick 3, Pick 4 and Cash Quest - that were purchased Tuesday between 1:35 p.m. and 2:11 p.m. for Tuesday night's drawing were inadvertently generated for Wednesday's drawing.Louisiana Lottery President Randy Davis said the Lottery will honor winning Pick 3, Pick 4 and Cash Quest tickets purchased during that time frame for both drawings, Tuesday, Oct. 7 and Wednesday, Oct. 8.Lottery records indicate 1,493 Pick 3; 724 Pick 4; and 354 Cash Quest tickets were
Oct 8, 2003, 4:36 am - Lottery News

300 years of winners, losers in state's lottery-history exhibitNews Story
Scandal strikes the lottery system; a former politician who's a mathematician argues passionately that lotteries should be banned; the General Assembly holds hearings.The scenario sounds like the state lottery of today: Lincoln Park's executive director and the CEO of Lincoln's parent company stand indicted for allegedly trying to bribe the law firm of the former speaker of the House. Rodney Driver, a former state representative and mathematics professor, argues to anyone who will listen that lo
Oct 6, 2003, 4:04 am - Lottery News