N.J. lawmaker wants to expand lottery reach, sales
Targets Internet sales, mobile phones, and 'big box' stores
Saying it would generate more cash for the state, New Jersey Senate President Richard Codey will push a plan to expand the New Jersey Lottery by selling tickets at big box stores such as Home Depot or Target, adding internet sales and even allowing people to play the games with their cell phones.
Codey (D-Essex) said the Lottery has untapped potential that can help ease New Jersey's fiscal woes over the next decade. He said he bel ...
Apr 8, 2008, 7:54 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. lottery midday draws held late, not televised
The New Jersey Lottery's computer system is back on-line, after being down for about 3½ hours this afternoon, officials said.
The disruption in service, which shut down Lottery machines throughout the state and caused a delay in the drawing of the Satuday midday numbers, was blamed on high winds and heavy rains that hit the state today.
Lottery machines went down about 12:30 p.m. Service was restored shortly before 4 p.m., said Dominick DeMarco, a spokesman for the Lottery Commissio ...
Mar 8, 2008, 5:14 pm - - Lottery News forum
Editorial criticizes N.J. Lottery privatization proposal
Privately run lottery faces long odds
Home News Tribune
Feb. 2, 2008
Give [New Jersey] state Senate President Richard J. Codey credit for trying.
Responding to the governor's assurance that he is open to ideas for solving the state's long-term budget woes, Codey, D-Essex, floated the notion of leasing the state's lucrative lottery. The way Codey figures it, the lottery might be worth billions upfront, and it might even produce some ongoing cash for the state if it is able to negotiate ...
Feb 5, 2008, 1:27 am - - Lottery News forum
New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USA
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire.
Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.)
T ...
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - - Lottery News forum
Heartbreak: Lottery scam led to NJ grandmother's suicide
A Jamaica-based lottery scam promising a $2.5 million windfall cost Ann Mowle her entire life savings of $248,000 before the 72-year-old grandmother from Monroe decided she had enough.
Mowle donated her clothes to charity, left her beloved toy poodle Molly at a dog groomers and drove to Spring Lake on Oct. 31. A pair of fishermen found her body on the edge of a jetty at the Worthington Avenue beach the next day. Investigators determined Mowle's death was a suicide.
Mowle's family blames ...
Nov 12, 2007, 11:16 pm - - Lottery News forum
Seven tickets to split record Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot
New Jersey Lottery officials say there are seven winning tickets sold for the record Jersey Cash 5 jackpot worth nearly $2 million.
Two of the tickets were sold in Atlantic County. The others were purchased in Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Monmouth and Union counties.
The numbers in Tuesday night's drawing were 4, 5, 17, 18 and 21. The total jackpot was $1,964,438.
Each winning ticket is worth $280,634.
Jersey Cash 5's average jackpot is $300,000. Lottery officials say sales fr ...
Oct 25, 2007, 7:39 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery's Cash 5 game grows to record $1.8 million
Jackpot unusually large for a Pick 5 game
The New Jersey Lottery's Jersey Cash 5 jackpot is so large that the lottery's web site jackpot listing is not designed to handle the large number.
A section displaying the state's current jackpot amounts lists the Cash 5 jackpot as 18 thousand , but a red notice shown beside the jackpot section contains the message, The correct Jersey Cash 5 jackpot for Tuesday 10/23/2007 is $1,800,000 .
New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director William T. ...
Oct 23, 2007, 10:22 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. couple claims $82M lottery prize
Villas, New Jersey, residents Sandra and John Belawsky today claimed their portion of the near-record $330 million jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing held on Aug, 31. They chose the cash option, to receive $48,615,187 before the 25 percent federal withholding tax.
The Belawskys went to Lottery Headquarters to stake their claim to one of the largest lottery jackpots in North American history.
Congratulations to the Belawskys, the winners of this incredible jackpot, said William T. Jou ...
Sep 7, 2007, 7:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpot
A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said.
The owner of the ticket, expected to be worth $82.5 million in 26 annual installments, had not stepped forward by last evening, lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. Folks take their time sometimes, he said.
For the store, the brush with fortune turned an ordinary Labor Day weekend into an even ...
Sep 6, 2007, 7:40 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery Independence Day Raffle results
The New Jersey Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Independence Day Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/nj-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp
Independence Day Raffle is a raffle game offered by the New Jersey Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Independence Day Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any New Jersey Lottery game. ...
Jul 4, 2007, 10:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
