Video gambling a cash cow even for smaller states
Surveying West Virginia's rural neighborhoods, where most people lack broadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is a lottery cash cow.
That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers.
There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzing and blinking video lottery terminals the reason this small state, with one of the country's lowest per-capita incomes is home to one of the most lucrative lotteries in the natio ...
Jan 30, 2007, 8:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
First Ever Multi-State Video Lottery Game Up and Running
Jackpot Over $540,000 and Growing
The lotteries of Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia have begun operation of America's first multi-state video lottery game.
Ca$hola (pronounced cash-O-lah) features a shared prize pool that will create the progressive jackpot game for players in all three states; a jackpot that currently has an annuity value of over $540,000 and grows until won.
Sales of the Ca$hola game have begun at video lottery terminals (VLT's) located at tracks in the thr ...
Jul 26, 2006, 5:24 pm - - Lottery News forum
Woman, dad win lottery's three top prizes on same numbers
W.V. woman wins jackpot for record third time
A Weirton, West Virginia, woman and her father won a total of $75,000 by claiming the three top prizes in the Cash 25 lottery game on July 4 but neither of them knew the other one was playing.
Charity Guiddy claimed two $25,000 prizes, using a set of family birth dates.
About five years ago, using a different set of numbers, she won the top prize as well.
West Virginia Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla says this is the first time the sam ...
Jul 13, 2006, 10:00 am - - Lottery News forum
W.V. Lottery officials target 'coin-pusher' machines
Retailers could lose licenses if they have coin-pusher devices
Coin-pusher machines are popping up at limited video lottery businesses in violation of state law, and the West Virginia Lottery is warning operators that it will yank their licenses if they do not get rid of the devices.
Coin-pusher machines are touted as skills games by manufacturers and distributors. Players insert coins in the machines in an attempt to push other coins, tokens, jewelry or other prizes off rotating shelves a ...
Jun 2, 2006, 8:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Record lottery winner's business target of complaints
More than 1,500 complaints have been filed in a Wood County sewer project being completed by a company owned by record Powerball winner Jack Whittaker, about one complaint for every customer the Union Williams Public Service District project would serve.Diversified Enterprise and its subcontractor, Zion Inc., allegedly have sliced water, sewer, gas and power lines, cut down trees and knocked down fences, according to complaints filed with the PSD, located in Waverly.The sewer project started in ...
Sep 21, 2005, 6:39 pm - - Lottery News forum
W.V. woman claims $1.75 million Hot Lotto jackpot
Like most people holding a winning lottery ticket worth more than $1 million, Diane Ellis checked her numbers over and over again.Twenty-five times, to be exact.A bookkeeper for a Charleston realty company, Ellis, 55, came forward Tuesday as the state's latest West Virginia Lottery jackpot winner.The South Charleston resident stood nervously alongside Gov. Joe Manchin as she faced the media Tuesday at the Charleston headquarters of the state Lottery Commission. I'm very happy ... very excited, ...
Aug 3, 2005, 8:45 am - - Lottery News forum
$1.75 million Hot Lotto ticket purchased in West Virginia
The winning ticket for Saturday's $1.75 million Hot Lotto jackpot was purchased at a Kanawha County convenience store, according to West Virginia lottery officials.The ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven on Second Avenue in South Charleston, lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla said Sunday. It is West Virginia's first Hot Lotto jackpot.The winning numbers were 13, 21, 25, 30, 31 and Hot Ball 18.Hot Lotto tickets are sold in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia ...
Aug 1, 2005, 12:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
Federal Workers Share $10M Powerball Lottery Jackpot
A group of federal disaster workers, used to helping others facing misfortune, are instead basking in their own good fortune as they get ready to claim a $10 million Powerball jackpot, officials said Wednesday.Fourteen of the 15 Federal Emergency Management Agency workers were scheduled to present the winning ticket on Wednesday afternoon at the Lottery's headquarters in Charleston, Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla said.The other worker cannot attend because he is working on relief efforts for vi ...
Jul 13, 2005, 7:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
First WV lottery winner gets final annuity check
A Wood County man who was the West Virginia Lottery's first jackpot winner received his last of 20 payments on Wednesday.Russell Husk, a private man who doesn't do interviews, was a a 24-year-old maintenance worker for a Parkersburg restaurant when he won $3.74 million on March 20, 1986. He won the money after spinning the lottery wheel on the weekly televised Grand Prize Show.The lottery at that time only offered instant tickets and spinning the wheel was how players could win jackpots. Husk ha ...
Mar 18, 2005, 11:51 am - - Lottery News forum
Record lottery winner's wealth cost him dearly
It was coming up on Christmas, and Brenda-the-biscuit-lady was inexplicably happy as she walked to work in the predawn darkness. Brenda didn't just make biscuits over at the C L Super Serve for $6 an hour. She served up good cheer. How you doin', honey? she'd greet customers, with such enthusiasm that they had no choice but to smile back. Dad-gonnit, you are growing up on me! she'd call to schoolchildren, just to see them grin. What grade you in now? At 39, Brenda Higginbotham didn't have muc ...
Jan 31, 2005, 9:36 am - - Lottery News forum
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