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Lotto Max ticket sales on fire as lottery hits recordNews Story
It's a curious pop culture phenomenon that the richer the lottery jackpot, the bigger the frenzy it creates at retail outlets. If you need proof, look no further than Canada's Lotto Max multi-province game this month. On Friday, the nine-month-old lottery is poised to award the biggest aggregate jackpot in Canadian lottery history as its top prize remains at $50 million for the fourth week in a row. (No jackpot-winning tickets were sold during the last three weeks.) But that's not all.
Jun 24, 2010, 9:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball outmuscles Mega Millions in sales, jackpotsNews Story
Powerball is on a roll. Wednesday's annuity jackpot got to be gigantic $252 million by leaving the main rival in the dust. Both grew for 11 drawings, but the top prize in Mega Millions rose only to $143 million Tuesday night. When states began selling both lotteries on Jan. 31, observers wondered how they'd fare head to head. The verdict seems to be in. Powerball is Coke, Hertz, Muhammad Ali. Mega Millions is Pepsi, Avis, Joe Frazier. In Pennsylvania, a Powerball state for year
Apr 21, 2010, 8:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.Y. Lottery looks to increase prizes through investment strategiesNews Story
The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into investments such as stocks, corporate bonds, real estate and hedge funds and out of the safety of U.S. Treasuries. If the agency were to double its annual return to 8 percent as it projects, the prize would be $37 million more for state coffers as New York grapples with a record $13 billion budget deficit next year. Losses might reduce proceeds that fund education, said
Nov 17, 2009, 7:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

More Arkansas lottery details emergeNews Story
Depending on how much money it collects, Arkansas' state-run lottery could fund college scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $5,500 annually under a draft bill released to lawmakers Wednesday. Discussing the draft in a legislative committee meeting, House Speaker Robbie Wills, D-Conway, said he and the other lawmakers who have been working on the bill believe scholarship amounts should be tied to the performance of the lottery, which is still unknown. We believe the bottom line is this: Th
Feb 26, 2009, 7:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

CEO: Bonuses in lottery business are necessaryNews Story
In a year in which the state is cutting back on spending, freezing pay and laying off staffers, Georgia Lottery CEO Margaret DeFrancisco received a $150,000 bonus. In all, lottery staffers received about $2.5 million in bonuses this year. DeFrancisco said the incentives are necessary to keep the lottery which set sales records again this year competitive with other businesses in the market for top workers. The whole point is to attract and retain really talented people, DeFrancisco sai
Dec 29, 2008, 10:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Death Claims 93 Year Old Actor
Actor Richard Widmark dies at 93 By STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press WriterWed Mar 26, 1:32 PM ET Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in Kiss of Death and became a Hollywood leading man in Broken Lance, Two Rode Together and 40 other films, has died after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife, Susan Blanchard, says the actor died at his home in Roxbury on Monday. She would not provide details of his illness and said funeral arrangements are
Mar 26, 2008, 5:06 pm - Jani Norman - Mystical Forum

PA Millionaire Raffle
MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE IS BACK! Drawing Date: 12/29/07 Help kick off the new Millionaire Raffle with prizes and entertainment at these Retailer Radio Remotes The Pennsylvania Lottery will award 8,000 total prizes worth more than $6.4 million in its Dec. 29, 2007, Millionaire Raffle, making this the largest Millionaire Raffle to date. Five top prizes of $1 million cash; five prizes of $100,000 cash; 200 prizes of $1,000 cash; and 7,790 prizes of $100 cash will be awarded. Eac
Nov 10, 2007, 7:50 pm - sirbrad - Lottery Discussion Forum

New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketNews Story
Woman plans to file lawsuit against the lottery By the time lottery officials told Patricia Manzitto that her winning ticket was a fake, she already had spent nearly half the $25,000 she thought she'd won. But when Manzitto went to collect her winnings four days later, officials at the New York Lottery's Garden City center told her that it looked as if her ticket had been forged by taping two halves of different tickets together. Lottery officials refused to pay up. Manzitto, 64, of Ea
Oct 23, 2007, 9:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Heads Up: Latest ScamReply
Have you seen the Commercial where a guy sits down next to a woman on a bus and gives her the same type of spiel? The guy is dressed like a bum and I believe he shows her a crimpled check from a foreign bank and asks to use her account to cash it. The idea is that if these scams were presented in person, people wouldn't even blink an eye and walk away. Both Yahoo and MSM ask for name and address when getting an email address so that alone should be enough to know they are not part of rando
Oct 11, 2007, 5:55 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

New lottery scam pictures postedReply
Here's another: ____________________ AWARD NOTIFICATION: Seguritas Seguridad Espa a S.A. C/Barbadillo, 9, 28042 Madrid, Spain (Admitted 1986) Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you of the result winners of Loterias International Lottery Programmes held on 26th July, 2007 from the online Lottery success. This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users;therefore you
Jul 29, 2007, 2:30 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum