Lottery scratch games still being sold after jackpots are gone
Feeling lucky today?
Then don't buy a $20 scratch-off ticket for the New Jersey Lottery's $1,000,000 Explosion game.
Your chances of winning the $1 million top prize are Z-E-R-O.
The six top prizes were awarded months ago, but the $20 tickets are still on sale. The best prize available today is $10,000.
State lotteries are coming under renewed criticism for selling scratch-off tickets after the top prizes have been given away. The latest challenge comes from a professor who says ...
Jun 30, 2008, 1:22 pm - - Lottery News forum
D.C. Lottery contract award put on hold
Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is withdrawing a controversial proposal to award a $120 million lottery contract to a start-up firm in a maneuver designed to prevent the agreement from dying in the D.C. Council.
Fenty (D) will resubmit the proposal in September, when the council returns from a summer recess, interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said.
That would be the third time Fenty asks the council to give the contract to W2I Ventures instead of extending the agreement with ...
Jun 27, 2008, 8:01 am - - Lottery News forum
Contract controversy reveals D.C. Lottery's tangled roots
Jerry Cooper, the man who helped bring legalized gambling and the lottery to the District nearly 30 years ago, called local businessman Warren C. Williams Sr. with a suggestion last year.
The District's contract with Lottery Technology Enterprises, the firm that has run the city's online gaming for about 25 years, was going to expire by 2009. Would Williams be interested in bidding against LTE for the lucrative contract?
No, but maybe his son and daughter-in-law would.
So Alaka Willi ...
May 21, 2008, 8:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Seattle man will use lottery winnings for his mother's care
It's quite the Mother's Day gift: A Seattle man who won $1 million on a Lottery scratch ticket says he will use the money to take care of his 83-year-old mom.
Michael McManus, a nightshift supervisor at a local cargo company, has been taking care of his mother for the past six years after she suffered a stroke.
His winnings of $750,000 (what's left after federal taxes) will be used to keep his mother, Maryjane White or Honey as her sons call her, in her condominium, instead of sending he ...
May 9, 2008, 10:05 am - - Lottery News forum
Software error stalls validation of some winning D.C. lottery tickets
Glitch delayed winnings for several dozen ticketholders; cause still sought
A mysterious software bug in 17 lottery machines used by the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board in Washington left several dozen winning instant ticketholders unable to immediately cash their prize tickets last week.
The problem, according to Jay Young, chief operating officer of the lottery board, was tracked to the proprietary software that validates instant tickets with winning numbers, but the exac ...
May 9, 2008, 8:46 am - - Lottery News forum
Soldier wins $1 million lottery jackpot, will return to Iraq
Definition of patriot: though he hit the jackpot, sergeant volunteers to return to Iraq for a 3rd tour
After completing two tours in Iraq, Sgt. Wayne Leyde won $1 million from a scratch-and-win lotto ticket on Tuesday.
Now that he's won, Leyde, a 26-year-old member of the Washington National Guard, says he's still going to volunteer to go back to Iraq for a third tour and won't spend any of the money in the meantime.
Leyde was driving near his home in Mead, Washington when he stopped at ...
Feb 29, 2008, 1:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Police break up suspected lottery ticket theft ring
In Washington state, police have arrested three people on suspicion of stealing lottery scratch tickets from stores all over King and Snohomish counties, then cashing them in at other stores.
The arrests follow a week-long investigation into the suspected serial lottery ticket thefts by Kirkland police, Bothell police and King County sheriff's detectives.
The investigation began Feb. 7 after Kirkland police responded to a theft of lottery scratch tickets from a Kirkland gas station in the ...
Feb 14, 2008, 6:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processes
D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery Charitable Games Control Board.
An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined the ticket thefts were most likely com ...
Dec 21, 2007, 12:34 pm - - Lottery News forum
Tickets for new Washington Lottery raffle go on sale Sunday
Feeling lucky? Try Washington State Lottery's new lottery game.
Lottery officials announced a brand new game in honor of its 25th anniversary. Starting this Sunday, the odds of becoming an instant millionaire is about to go way up.
You've never seen a Washington lottery ticket like this one.
Each raffle ticket will have a number printed on it that will be your number and it will be between one and 375,000, said Jacque Coe, Washington State Lottery. When they're sold out, they're g ...
Sep 19, 2007, 3:34 pm - - Lottery News forum
Is the lottery shortchanging schools?
According to the North American Assoc. of State and Provincial Lotteries, 42 states and the District of Columbia run lotteries, and more than half claim the games boost funding for education. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian found that lotteries aren't exactly providing a windfall for schools.
If you listen to state lottery ads, we're supposed to believe that all the numbers are supposedly adding up to more and more money for education.
Lotteries help, but n ...
Sep 19, 2007, 12:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
