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N.C. Lottery Update: Moving QuicklyNews Story
More than 200 stores in Forsyth County have applied to sell scratch-off tickets for the scheduled start of the new North Carolina lottery March 30. Although most of them are convenience stores and grocery chains, applicants also include a miniature-golf course, several tobacconists, at least one pawn shop and a store that sells Indian food and spices. At one store, Blue Ridge Tobacco Candle Outlet on Cloverdale Avenue, customers should soon be able to buy scratch-off tickets with their c
Mar 6, 2006, 8:15 am - Lottery News

Burglars Take Cash From Lottery MachineNews Story
25 Burglaries Of TouchPlay Devices Happen In Six Months On Wednesday morning, burglars stole cash from a TouchPlay machine. The clerk at an east side Kum And Go at 2919 E. 14th St. said the theft happened around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The lottery machines are in a separate room called the Gaming Center at the store. The clerk told police that two men a one woman walked into the gas station together. The guys went into the room were the TouchPlay machines are located. He believes
Mar 2, 2006, 8:36 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery machines installedNews Story
Lottery machines are coming to counter tops at convenience stores around North Carolina. In fact, at least one was installed Thursday. Contractors began installing machines at the Kangaroo store on Castle Hayne Road in New Hanover County Thursday morning. It's one of the first devices in Southeastern North Carolina. Lottery machines are already in place in Wilmington at the Scotchman on 23rd Street and a Kangaroo store on Oleander Drive. The stores get something for giving up the space th
Feb 24, 2006, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Iowa lawmakers predict video lottery restrictionsNews Story
The Iowa Legislature won't ban TouchPlay machines, but likely will restrict the spread of the machines, Senate Democratic Leader Michael Gronstal said Thursday. I do not expect that these machines will be completely outlawed and I do not expect the continued expansion will be allowed, Gronstal said. The debate over the video lottery machines has gripped the legislature during the opening month of the session. In 2002, the Legislature approved a measure authorizing the video lottery ma
Feb 24, 2006, 7:20 am - Lottery News

Stores OK with releasing Iowa Lottery TouchPlay dataNews Story
Iowa convenience store operators, whose sales information has been made public for years by the Iowa Lottery, say they won't try to block the release of financial information requested by The Des Moines Register about TouchPlay machines. We don't have a dog in the fight. We don't care, the president of the trade group that represents convenience stores said Thursday. It's always been public. All lottery sales are public information by location. Dawn Carlson of the Petroleum Marketers a
Feb 24, 2006, 7:11 am - Lottery News

Iowa couple arrested in lottery fraudNews Story
A Waverly, Iowa, couple is facing criminal charges for allegedly cashing counterfeit lottery tickets. Lottery officials allege Scott and Jennifer Brandhorst redeemed the forged TouchPlay tickets at a Hy-Vee store in Cedar Rapids, one for $300 and another for $325. Cedar Rapids police reportedly matched the couple with a surveillance video. Investigators arrested the pair as they were leaving their home at 1868 Dakota Ave. in Waverly on Monday. They were taken to the Linn County Jail. T
Feb 8, 2006, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

Iowa legislators explain controversial lottery issueNews Story
Larger-than-usual audiences met with Iowa legislators Saturday to hear what's going on at the Statehouse and to share their own concerns. About 40 people crowded into the Larson Conference Hall at Muscatine Community College to see state Sens. Tom Courtney and Jim Hahn and Reps. Jeff Kaufmann, Nathan Reichert and Tom Sands. Later, in Wapello, there were 19 area residents visiting with Courtney and Sands. That's twice the usual number who usually gather at the annual forums held in Louisa C
Feb 7, 2006, 9:21 am - Lottery News

Iowans Want TouchPlay Video Lottery MachinesNews Story
A new poll shows most Iowans favor keeping the Lottery's TouchPlay machines.A Des Moines Register Iowa poll shows 41 percent of adults want lawmakers to remove the TouchPlay machines, which closely resemble slot machines, from the 2,600 locations around the state that currently have them.But 26 percent favor making more machines available as long as rules against use by minors are followed.Another 27 percent would permit the TouchPlay games already in place, but prohibit installation of more mac
Jan 30, 2006, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery orders moratorium on machinesNews Story
Iowa Lottery President Edward Stanek, responding to a controversy over an expansion of the state's gambling industry, today ordered a limited moratorium on the installation of TouchPlay lottery machines, which closely resemble slot machines.About 4,600 TouchPlay machines have been already installed at 2,500 locations in Iowa taverns, covenience and other retail sites.Stanek's order permits additional machines perhaps totaling in the thousands that have already been ordered by businesses to b
Jan 10, 2006, 11:12 am - Lottery News

Georgia lottery machines knocked offline by software glitchNews Story
A glitch caused by a routine software update knocked Georgia's lottery network offline early Monday, leaving customers and retailers unable to print or redeem tickets for the games. It was a technical issue that happened as a result of a routine software update, said J.B. Landroche, the vice president of corporate affairs for Georgia Lottery Corp .Mr. Landroche said the machines went down early Monday morning, and most had service restored late in the afternoon. He said all the machines shoul
Nov 1, 2005, 8:12 am - Lottery News