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N.C. Lottery officials mum on payout of first ticketsNews Story
$1, $2 and $5 scratch-off games now printing for March 30 debut Scratch-off tickets for North Carolina's first lottery games will range in cost from $1 to $5, lottery officials said Tuesday. Lottery director Tom Shaheen shared this and a few other details about the games after a lottery commissioners meeting Tuesday. But Shaheen balked when reporters asked him details about the games, such as what the biggest payout would be for a scratch-off ticket. If I tell you what it's about, i
Mar 8, 2006, 6:46 am - Lottery News

Ky. Lottery Under Fire For Scratch-Off TicketsNews Story
In a state known for horse racing and basketball, the ticket of choice for Kentuckians gets scratched every day. Scratch-off lottery tickets account for 56 percent of all lottery sales. Instant lottery ticket sales last year were in the neighborhood of $385 million. This year it'll be over $400 million, Arch Gleason, Kentucky Lottery president, said. The Kentucky Lottery offers about 80 games a year, and these scratch-off tickets typically stay in a store for about three to four month
Mar 2, 2006, 10:09 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts store owner wins $1 millionNews Story
Sometimes it pays to break a New Year's resolution. After years of buying lottery tickets in the store he managed, Greg Lambert resolved this year it just wasn't worth it anymore. Last week, though, he caved and bought a $10 million Texas Hold 'Em ticket. Something just told me to buy a ticket, so I did, he said. The $10 ticket was a $1 million winner. I bought it, scratched it, looked again, and looked again, and looked again ... said the 38-year-old Wayland resident. Th
Mar 2, 2006, 9:21 am - Lottery News

N.H. Lottery gets approval for $30 scratch ticketsNews Story
Is the buzz that comes from buying a $20 scratch ticket starting to wear off? Don't worry; you will soon be able to press a vending machine button and buy a nation-leading $30 ticket if the state lottery commission has its way. The state Senate overruled its presiding officer and advanced a bill intended to give the Lottery Commission the freedom to decide when the top ticket of $20 has run its course. Texas and Connecticut are the only state lotteries in the nation selling a $30 scr
Feb 24, 2006, 9:44 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery winner sues stateNews Story
A woman who won a Tennseess Lottery scratch-off ticket worth over $1 million has sued the state for preventing her from assigning some of her winnings to a financial company in return for a lump sum payout. Like other instant lottery winners, Ethel Newberry of Palmrya wasn't given the option to get the bulk of her winnings in cash up front. Instead, she gets annual payments of about $52,000 a year for a minimum of 20 years. Newberry is asking the Davidson County Chancery Court to allow he
Feb 14, 2006, 11:51 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery dispute takes bizarre turnNews Story
In October Kevin Donovan became the talk of the town when he claimed to have thrown away a winning $1 million lottery ticket that another man found in the trash. Now, while embroiled with the Massachusetts Lottery Commission in a battle to reclaim the ticket from the man who found it, Donovan has suffered the ultimate loss. Just 49 years old, Donovan suffered a fatal heart attack while traveling in Hyannis on Tuesday, according toKate Donovan, his ex-wife. The couple had been divorced sin
Feb 4, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Ohio couple hits lottery jackpotNews Story
Even before they won a $1 million prize in the Ohio Lottery, Gregory and Shelley West, of Marietta, were winners to their next door neighbor, Edee Starcher. I'm so excited for them. They are perfect neighbors, Starcher said. If Shelley makes a wonderful dessert, she'll bring some over and say, Finish this.' The couple visited Starcher, of 622 Seventh St., Sunday to relay the good news that they had just won one of the 20 prizes of $1 million in the lottery's $200 Million Cash Spectacular insta
Jan 26, 2006, 8:33 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

Lottery winner pleads innocent to ID theft, fraud chargesNews Story
A woman accused of using a stolen credit card to purchase a $1 million lottery ticket pleaded innocent this week to charges of identity theft and fraud.Christina Elizabeth Goodenow, 38, of Central Point was arrested after police determined that she purchased the winning scratch-it ticket on Oct. 9 using a credit card that belonged to her dead mother-in-law, Inez Cornett.Goodenow collected $33,500, the first installment of her winnings, from Oregon Lottery headquarters in Salem before her arrest.
Jan 12, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Illinois launches $2 lottery tickets to benefit breast cancer researchNews Story
Lottery tickets that devote all profits to breast cancer research and awareness hit stores Monday, with supporters saying the pink ribbon scratch-offs will net $3 million a year for the cause.Four thousand of the $2 tickets will make their way to Illinois retailers by the end of the week, lottery spokesman Courtney Hill said. Players can win up to $20,000 on each ticket. Chances of winning, including breaking even, are 1 in 4.59.Profits go to a Ticket for the Cure fund. The General Assembly ap
Jan 10, 2006, 9:27 am - Lottery News