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Missouri couple captures $4.4M lottery ticketReply
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Sep 16, 2009, 10:50 pm - psykomo - Lottery News

Nebraska man wins Iowa Lottery's $500,000 second-chance jackpotNews Story
A railroad worker from Lincoln, Nebraska collected a $500,000 check Friday from the second chance drawing of the Iowa/Kansas Midwest Millions scratch ticket lottery game. Fifty-year-old Ralph Kuwamoto says he bought the tickets at a store called Eddy's in Glenwood, Iowa and then mailed them in for the second-chance drawing. Kuwamoto says he didn't think anything about it until a friend called. He says he was coming home from St. Joseph, Missouri when he got a call from a buddy in Arizona
Jan 19, 2008, 11:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Sex offender wins $14 million Florida Lotto jackpotReply
First of all, RJOh, I never said life was fair or not fair. Fair is only a term that applies in baseball. I started my post by saying he won fair and square by playing the lottery and having the winning ticket. No argument about that, JAG331. The game is random and doesn't choose the winner by his or her past achievements or failures, thank goodness. We also do not know what this man's crimes really were. Some states label a person as sex offender if he's caught peeing in public, although he ha
Feb 1, 2007, 4:22 pm - justxploring - Lottery News

Okla. lawmaker aims to stop lottery winners from staying anonymousReply
For the sake of discussion, why do you say they would lose that in court? The California Lottery says, these are the rules of our game. If you win you must identfiy yourself. You can claim it as a corporation, but you must provide the name of a natural person. Nothing against the law there. I don't see this to be illegal as long as they enforce the rule to everyone and it doesn't violate any exsiting Federal Law. Also should you try to fight this all thoughts of being anonymous are out the
Oct 10, 2006, 7:56 pm - CA LotteryGuy - Lottery News

Michigan lottery backs GTECH, Lottomatica dealNews Story
The Michigan lottery has confirmed that the planned takeover of U.S. lottery operator GTECH by Lottomatica will not hurt its lottery concession in the state, the Italian company said in a statement on Thursday. Lottomatica plans to buy GTECH in a $5 billion deal that would create the world's biggest lottery operator. One of the conditions for the deal is that it will not have an impact on GTECH's lottery operating concessions in the United States. This has caused some hiccups for the two c
Aug 2, 2006, 9:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery hunts for online identityNews Story
Internet-savvy speculators have bought all the logical Web addresses for North Carolina's lottery, leaving the state in a bind as it looks for a smooth, easy way to get out information on the games.Dan Gerlach, an adviser to Gov. Mike Easley, said state officials have looked for an easy-to-remember name for the lottery's online home, but they're all gone. All the permutations we could think of, he told the lottery commissioners at their inaugural meeting this month.Charles Hayworth of Winston-
Oct 18, 2005, 8:37 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery Jackpot Grows to New Record of $340 MillionNews Story
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot will be the largest in the game's history. The estimated $340 million jackpot breaks the game's previous record of $314.9 million won on December 25th, 2002.Even though the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening, 2,575,121 players across the nation won a total of more than $19.9 million in prizes.The cash option for the Wednesday, October 19th drawing will be an estimated $164.4 million. The numbers drawn Saturday night were 1, 7, 8, 34, 45 and the Powerball was
Oct 16, 2005, 8:15 am - Todd - Lottery News

Woman and two children claim $171 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Florence Ayers, a Jackson, Pennsylvania bookkeeper who claimed the $93.4 million lump-sum cash prize from a $171.4 million Powerball jackpot, knows how to keep a secret.Ayers, 69, was so tight-lipped for five weeks about the winning ticket that neighbors and her employer, Jack Basilon, were stunned Wednesday when the state Lottery announced she had won the second largest jackpot in Pennsylvania history. The drawing was Dec. 8.Ayers abruptly quit work two weeks ago after 20 years on the job, whic
Jan 13, 2005, 8:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Officials Say Oklahoma Lottery Could Take Year To StartNews Story
Oklahoma voters earlier this month ended Gov. Brad Henry's yearslong battle to get a statewide lottery, but the task of making the lottery a reality has just begun.Before the first ticket is sold, a lottery commission has to take shape, the rules of the games established and other details worked out.The first step comes with Henry's appointment of a seven-member lottery commission. The governor's office is accepting applications. They'll go through a lengthy and detailed process, including an OS
Nov 19, 2004, 11:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee businesses banking on lotteryNews Story
For years, Tony Kim watched as customers looking to buy gas, snacks or cigarettes bypassed his store here and crossed the state line into Kentucky in search of one thing: lottery tickets.Beginning Tuesday, Kim hopes to draw that business back to his Favorite Xpress BP store when Tennessee launches its own lottery a venture almost 20 years in the making. We have to join the game everybody's doing it, said Kim, who with several partners, owns three other convenience stores in Clarksville and five
Jan 17, 2004, 2:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News