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Internet lottery sales one step closer in GeorgiaNews Story
Georgia took its first step towards allowing lottery players to purchase tickets over the Internet.The Georgia House approved a measure Thursday that would allow the Georgia Lottery to set up online accounts for Internet lottery ticket purchases. In this manner, players could use debit cards to instruct a computer to play their favorite numbers, without visiting a traditional retailer.Under the plan, players would go to an existing lottery retailer and fill out an application, where they'd have
Mar 14, 2005, 12:54 pm - Lottery News

Bending the rules wins man $300,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Shirley and Rolf Walker of Pacific, Mo., have bridged many differences in their 48 years of marriage, including disagreeing about how many lottery scratch-offs a responsible person should buy in any one week. If you left it up to me, I wouldn't buy a single one, said Shirley. We don't have the money to spend. But marriage is about compromise, so the Walkers decided some years ago that if Rolf Walker just purchased a couple of scratch-offs a week, that would be OK. And if, when he won, he'd put
Mar 7, 2005, 7:45 am - Lottery News

New Georgia lottery scratch game popular with playersNews Story
Frank Stone of Phenix City was sitting at a counter Thursday morning inside the Spectrum across from the Columbus Civic Center.He had a cigarette tucked tightly between the middle and ring fingers of his right hand. He had a silver coin in the same hand. And he was scratching away at the silver film on the oversized lottery card.Stone was playing the $100 Million Cash Spectacular, a new game offered by the Georgia Lottery Corp. It gets to you, Stone said. It seems like you have more chances of
Feb 28, 2005, 10:47 am - Lottery News

Group finds winning lottery ticket a month after the drawingNews Story
A lottery pool of shop workers who play the UK Lotto spoke today of their delight at discovering that an unchecked lottery ticket left in their office was worth 5 million (US$9.4 million).The winning ticket was found in a plastic cup a full month after the lucky workers numbers came up in the Christmas Eve Lotto Superdraw, matching numbers 15, 19, 24, 36, 37 and 49.The 12 members of the pool, who worked at Pennys clothes shop and Penmark Cards, in Allestree, Derbyshire, could not conceal their
Jan 26, 2005, 10:47 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery Unveils Chocolate-Scented TicketsNews Story
Iowa's lottery customers may get a chocolate craving when they buy their tickets next week.The Iowa Lottery will begin selling chocolate-scented Sweet Rewards instant scratch-off cards Monday.The Sweet Rewards tickets are $1 scratch-off game cards with a Valentine's Day theme, according to the agency's news release. Winnings range from $1 to $200.When a player scratches off the game card, a chocolate smell is emitted, the news release said. The tickets may be good enough to eat, but remember t
Jan 21, 2005, 5:06 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner evaded taxes, fined $375,000News Story
Jefferson, 71, won $12.5 million; admits to making out false invoicesThe winner of a CDN$12.5 million lottery prize who runs a benefit plan consulting firm is a little less rich today after admitting he fabricated expense claims and service invoices involving his business.Walter Jefferson, chief executive officer of Toronto-based Global Benefit Plan Consultants, pleaded guilty to five counts of income tax evasion in court this week and paid a fine of $375,000.Jefferson, 71, did not report income
Jan 12, 2005, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Lottery company keeping Jamaica on holdNews Story
Four years after being granted a lottery licence, and after one false start, Telefun International is yet to begin operating in the Jamaican market, the directors apparently having failed so far to raise the capital to float their games.At the same time, however, other companies have applied for lottery licences and are awaiting Cabinet approval, Walter Scott, chairman of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, confirmed yesterday.Telefun International, which was granted a 10-year licence
Jan 5, 2005, 12:30 pm - Lottery News

Tennesse lottery markets tickets as Christmas giftsNews Story
Buying lottery tickets as Christmas gifts hasn't caught on at east Nashville's Community Market, one of the city's most popular convenience stores for players to buy games.The idea never dawned on Seneca Bradley, 28, who plays there occasionally.But a $1 or $5 lottery game just may be the perfect alternative to a Christmas card, which would cost about the same, he said.Holiday-themed TV and radio commercials encourage people to buy lottery items everything from scratch-off games to Powerball tic
Dec 21, 2004, 9:56 am - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery scratch games sold after top prize wonNews Story
The South Carolina Education Lottery offers dozens of ways to scratch off and win and buy the right card and you could win first prize cash ranging up to a quarter million dollars.That is, if someone hasn't already claimed the top prize. One card for the $30,000 cash bonus game for instance, was still on sale Tuesday, even though someone has already won the $30,000 jackpot.Scratch off games have varying lifespans with some as long as a couple of years or only a few months.The Lottery Commission
Dec 15, 2004, 9:49 am - Lottery News

NY has new pair of lottery millionairesNews Story
Two men from Jamaica, New York who moved to the United States in search of the American dream have found both success and luck, after winning a combined $19 million in lottery prizes this month.Yesterday, they gleefully recounted their experiences when they were announced as the winners at a news conference in White Plains at Martine Fruit Farm, the store where one of the tickets was sold. I threw my hands in the air and said, 'Thank you, Jehovah,' said Radcliffe Rocky Drummond of Yonkers, th
Oct 27, 2004, 8:41 am - Lottery News