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Online gambling world watches U.S. caseReply
Wake Up America, If this sounds too preposterous for you, check it out. This is just a summary. The evidence is available. Only when you are ready to wake up will you see what has been obvious for a long time. Then you can begin to understand WHO your are in contrast to what you are. But most people are content to not look. One could describe them as cows in the pasture with no interest in anything other than the next mouthful of grass or a sweet bale of hay with oats as a side dish. And tha
Aug 8, 2006, 6:52 pm - Jimiam - Lottery News

Two Alaska state lottery plans are about to be debated; here's how they'd workNews Story
Alaska is one of five U.S. states without a lottery. This year, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and House Majority Leader Steve Thompson, a Republican from Fairbanks, have each offered plans to change that. With Alaska state government projecting a $1.5 billion budget deficit, both men have said a lottery could be one step toward a broader fix. But both have proposed very different approaches. Thompson is suggesting a draw-style lottery that would raise between $8 million and $10 million a year for the
Feb 17, 2020, 8:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

What's it like to suddenly become rich?News Story
We've all daydreamed about an unexpected windfall that would change our luck. But what's it really like to come into money? Meet five people who did. Desiree Home: lottery winner, 1,000,000 (US$1.2 million) Our routine was always the same. Wayne, my husband, would pop into the post office on his way to work to get our lottery tickets, and he'd get up early the morning after the draw and check the numbers. He'd forgotten to check the Tuesday night Euromillions till the Thursday. Anyway,
Aug 7, 2019, 2:51 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Infamous lottery scammer says US computerized lottery drawings remain fatally flawedNews Story
Eddie Tipton warned them. As the head of IT at the Multi-State Lottery Association, Tipton pulled aside his boss and told him the computer software that randomly selected the winning numbers for million-dollar games in as many as 17 states had a terrible flaw. It wasn't really random. Though his boss listened, Tipton told state investigators that other officials with the nation's chief lottery system did not. They told him to fix it, then moved on. A disgruntled Tipton made some upda
Mar 19, 2018, 8:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Top N.Y. lottery winners probably lost millionsNews Story
Millions of people play the New York state lottery every year. None of them won big more often over the past eight years than a guy sitting at two out-of-the-way lakeside bars in Oswego County. Randal Stier won Quick Draw prizes of $600 or more at least 1,400 times from 2009 through last year, according to data obtained from the state lottery by journalism students at Columbia University. It's a total of nearly $1.6 million. Other players won more money, but nobody won big more times.
May 30, 2017, 1:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winner Jack Whittaker's losing ticketNews Story
Jack Whittaker, a 55-year-old contractor from Scott Depot, W. Va., had worked his way up from backcountry poverty to build a water-and-sewer-pipe business that employed over 100 people. He was a millionaire several times over. But when he awoke at 5:45 a.m. on Christmas morning in 2002, everything he'd built in his life held only passing significance next to a scrap of paper in his worn leather wallet a $1 Powerball lottery ticket bearing the numbers 5, 14, 16, 29, 53, and 7. Whittaker had pu
Dec 19, 2012, 10:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.Y. Lottery to launch new ad sloganNews Story
The lottery that contributed Hey, you never know to the lengthy list of memorable advertising catch phrases vernacular is hoping to do it again, with a new slogan for its scratch-off games. The slogan is the centerpiece of a campaign that formally begins this week for the New York Lottery. The campaign, by DDB New York, carries the theme Be ready not to be confused, presumably, with hit songs like Get Ready or People Get Ready or the Boy Scout motto, Be prepared. The message of Be ready i
May 10, 2011, 8:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Investigation: Illinois Lottery didn't award 40% of scratch-off grand prizesNews Story
It was called The Good Life and offered the biggest grand prize of any instant game the Illinois Lottery had ever produced. Two lucky winners could scratch their way to $46 million each, paid in periodic installments. At $30, tickets weren't cheap, but millions were sold. Then the game ended before the lottery sold most of the tickets that were printed, with neither top prize awarded. The same thing happened with another instant game, called Birthday Surprise. Two large grand prizes offere
Dec 9, 2016, 1:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Gaming the lottery was this couple's retirement planNews Story
Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him, puzzles that other people don't realize are puzzles: the little ciphers and patterns that float through the world and stick to the surfaces of everyday things. This was back in 1966, when Jerry, as he is kno
Mar 1, 2018, 6:10 pm - Todd - Lottery News