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Louisiana Lottery creates millionaire in raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Louisiana Lottery's finale drawing for its newest $10 raffle game, Millionaire Bonus Raffle, was held Thursday morning, creating one freshly-minted millionaire and several winners of $20,000. Raffle number 021159 was randomly selected as the $1 million winner from the 275,052 tickets that were sold. The complete list of winning numbers can be found on Lottery Post's Louisiana Lottery Results page. The winning ticket was sold in Lafayette. In today's finale dra
May 12, 2011, 12:43 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery draws raffle winning numbersNews Story
State tries different raffle cost, prize format By Todd Northrop This afternoon the Florida Lottery conducted its eighth raffle drawing, but its first using a new lower-cost and lower top prize format. The top prize in Lucky 7 Raffle is $700,000, but hundreds of other players will win prizes ranging from $70 to the top $700,000 prize. The complete list of winning numbers for Lucky 7 Raffle can be found at Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page. Tickets for the raffle went on
May 5, 2011, 3:35 pm - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery holds first of four bonus raffle drawingsNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Colorado Lottery's first bonus drawing for its newest $20 raffle game, Bonus Millionaire Raffle, was held Sunday. Ten random raffle ticket numbers were randomly selected from all of the raffle ticket numbers sold before Sunday, with each number drawn worth $2,000. The winning numbers for the bonus draw are displayed at Lottery Post's Colorado Lottery Results page. All future bonus draws plus the main draw will also be published on that page following each drawing.
May 2, 2011, 2:37 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery conducts first state raffleNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lesson learned: if you want to sell-out raffle lottery tickets, set (and hold to) an end date. In what started as one of the longest raffle ticket sales periods in recent memory, and ended in a flurry of last-minute sales, the Arkansas Lottery officially concluded its first-ever raffle today. At the end of the day, there are two freshly-minted millionaires, and over a thousand winners of $1,000 and $100 prizes. The two winning $1 million numbers were 199692 and 40926
Apr 7, 2011, 2:32 pm - Lottery News

Last day to play Arkansas Lottery's raffleNews Story
Update: Lottery averaging 1,000 tickets sold per hour since Tuesday By Todd Northrop Arkansas lottery players have been patiently waiting for the day to arrive: Wednesday is the last day to purchase tickets for Arkansas Million Dollar Raffle, and Thursday ticketholders will find out if they have won $1 million. The Raffle will pay off big in addition to the two winners of $1,000,000, there will be 540 $1,000 winners, and 600 $100 winners. Until the end of the day Wednesday, there wil
Apr 6, 2011, 7:42 am - Lottery News

Canada lotteries hold nationwide raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery players across Canada this morning are checking their Millionaire Life raffle tickets to see if they will be set for life, or perhaps win a new set of wheels. Millionaire Life, also called Vie de millionnaire, is a raffle game offered by the provincial lotteries across Canada during the month of March. The drawing took place Thursday, March 31, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at any of Lottery Post's Canad
Apr 1, 2011, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Louisiana Lottery holds first of five bonus raffle drawingsNews Story
The Louisiana Lottery's first bonus drawing for its newest $10 raffle game, Millionaire Bonus Raffle, was held Thursday morning. Raffle number 099007 was randomly selected as the $20,000 winner from the 145,499 tickets which were sold as of midnight Wednesday. The winning ticket was sold by Lapalco Chevron on Lapalco Boulevard in Marrero, which will receive a $200 selling bonus. Besides offering the best odds of winning $1 million in the May 12 finale drawing, Millionaire Bonus Raffle h
Mar 25, 2011, 3:07 pm - Lottery News

Louisiana Lottery players snatching up raffle tickets before bonus drawNews Story
More than 117,000 already sold Besides offering the best odds of winning $1 million in the May 12 finale drawing, the Louisiana Lottery's newest $10 raffle game, Millionaire Bonus Raffle, is giving players five more chances to win $20,000 if they purchase their tickets before midnight March 23. By Monday morning, more than 117,210 raffle tickets had been sold and will be entered into all five of the game's preliminary bonus drawings as well as the finale drawing. The first bonus drawing is
Mar 22, 2011, 10:45 pm - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery draws St. Patrick's RaffleNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Oregon Lottery today held the state's sixth raffle drawing the third it has held on St. Patrick's Day. The appropriately-named St. Patrick's Day Raffle resulted in one new millionaire and over one thousand other prize winners. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Oregon Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/or). The game has a total of 1,011 cash prizes, with a top prize of $1 million cash. Raffle ticket
Mar 17, 2011, 7:58 pm - Lottery News

S.C. Senate passes expanded gambling lawNews Story
Includes video report The South Carolina State Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would allow charities, schools and churches to hold raffles legally. Right now the only legal raffle in the state is the lottery. Opponents of this new bill said it would open the door for organized gambling. However, supporters disagree and said it's common sense to update state law that's more than 200 years old. The activity is practiced among organizations in order to raise money for good causes. K
Feb 11, 2011, 7:40 am - Lottery News