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Iowa Gov. Approves Ban On TouchPlay Lottery MachinesNews Story
The fight to keep video lottery in Iowa is heating up. Governor Tom Vilsack approved a ban on the state's lottery TouchPlay machines, giving businesses 45 days to shut them down. It's a move that's not sitting well with owners, but it also could cost the state millions of dollars in revenue. They look a lot......and sound a lot......like a slot machine you'd find in Vegas. You don't have to drive to a casino anymore, you can just play these, said Dan Viereck, manager of the Trophy Cas
Mar 22, 2006, 8:51 am - Lottery News

Forklift operator wins N.D.'s biggest lottery prizeNews Story
Kevin Green was driving a forklift at work last week when he heard a North Dakota Powerball outlet had sold a $1 million ticket. He didn't think twice about the news, until he heard where the prize winner was sold at the Williston convenience store where Green normally buys his tickets. Green, who had bought 25 Powerball tickets before the March 15 drawing, began scanning the rows of numbers on the slips of paper he pulled from his pocket. I was looking down the line and nothin', nothin
Mar 22, 2006, 6:59 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $88 millionNews Story
Two $1 Million Power Play Prizes Won The Powerball jackpot continues to get bigger and bigger, exciting players from all across America. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, 503,287 players across the nation won a total of more than $7.9 million in prizes in America's Game . Also, two lucky players in North Dakota and Oklahoma won $1 million each playing the Powerball add-on feature of Power Play. Their normal prize for matchng 5 white numbers of $200,000 was mult
Mar 16, 2006, 10:18 am - Lottery News

N.D. lawmaker quits anti-lottery groupNews Story
The North Dakota Senate's top officer has quit a lottery opposition group, saying it has become too partisan. No Lottery 2000 Inc. has become closely affiliated with ambitious Republican politicians who are exploiting the lottery debate by attempting to convert the issue into one that is partisan, Senate President Pro Tem John Drummond, D-Ninety Six, wrote to the group's chairwoman, Kathy Bigham. Mr. Drummond said he would continue to oppose the lottery that the Democratic Party's leade
Mar 9, 2006, 8:03 am - Lottery News

N.D. Lottery director discusses new game possibilitiesNews Story
Possible joint venture between Mega Millions and Powerball could produce massive new game North Dakota's four lottery games have been more profitable than expected, and the state's gambling market could handle another two games before it is saturated, lottery director Chuck Keller believes. Some North Dakotans, who believed Powerball would be the only game introduced by voters' approval of a November 2002 lottery initiative, are wondering when the steady introduction of new gambling variet
Feb 28, 2006, 8:13 am - Lottery News

Last day for Lotto SouthNews Story
One day you're in, and the next day you're out. Like Carrot Top and Ugg boots, the Virginia Lottery's Lotto South has fallen in the latter category. Today will be the last drawing for the nearly 5-year-old game with roots dating to 1990. If no one wins the final $4.5 million jackpot, all secondary prizes from $5 to $1,000 will be doubled. Virginia Lottery officials say many of today's lottery players have turned their backs on Lotto South in favor of multistate games such as Mega Millio
Feb 25, 2006, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot hits record $365 millionNews Story
Get up and go to work. You didn't win the big one. The multi-state lottery operators in Des Moines, Iowa, reported today that no one won last night's $300 million Powerball jackpot. That means the jackpot will grow to $365 million for Saturday night, if sales continue along their historical patterns. If sales are higher than expected, the jackpot could grow even larger by Saturday. Such a drawing will top the previous record North American lottery jackpot of $363 million. The previous l
Feb 16, 2006, 11:21 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery looking for Lotto South winnerNews Story
The Virginia Lottery has reported a winner in its Lotto South jackpot game. The winning $4 million ticket, which was sold near the North Carolina border, has yet to be claimed. Could someone have the winning ticket and not know it? News of the unclaimed ticket spread like wildfire through Uppy's Store in Bracey. It been a few weeks since the winning Lotto South ticket number, 02-03-06-21-39-42, was sold there. I'm kind of in a daze, because I thought you'd be checking every day to see if
Feb 9, 2006, 7:08 am - Lottery News

Woman Cashes Lottery Ticket From 1992News Story
In a case of better late then never, an Australian woman has collected 100,000 Australian dollars (US$74,810) after cashing in a lottery ticket more than a decade after it was bought, an official said Friday.The woman, who asked not to be identified, collected her winnings this week after discovering the ticket lodged in a greeting card she found in her home, a spokesman for New South Wales state Gaming Minister Grant McBride said on condition of anonymity he said was departmental policy.The lot
Jan 20, 2006, 6:42 am - Lottery News

Three states replacing Lotto South gameNews Story
Like a tired mule whose best days are behind him, Lotto South is being retired and a fresh workhorse brought in to pick up the production.The three-state lottery game, which began in September 2001, will be replaced next month by a new game that pays winners $1,000 a week for the rest of their lives, Virginia Lottery interim executive director Donna M. VanCleave said Thursday. Virginia's Lotto South partners, Kentucky and Georgia, also will participate in the new Win For Life game.Lotto South
Jan 12, 2006, 6:45 am - Lottery News