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NH Lottery offering online gambling gamesNews Story
Gamblers will be able to buy lottery tickets in New Hampshire next week to play online a move seen by some as an expansion of the kind of gambling that state lawmakers oppose. PlayNowNH interactive games go on sale July 1. In them, players choose the game baseball, super slots, speed bingo or New Hampshire poker and the amount they want to play. For example, players can buy chances for the $1 baseball game on one ticket or a separate ticket with chances for the $5 poker game. They can b
Jun 25, 2010, 7:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraudNews Story
Auditors studying the integrity of B.C.'s public lottery system found 21 previously unreported lottery wins of $10,000 or more by retailers who sell tickets to the public, says an independent report released Thursday. B.C. Solicitor General John Les, who ordered an independent probe of the lottery system last May, said the discovery did not point to fraud within the Crown-owned lottery corporation that raked in $2.4 billion in revenues in the 2007 fiscal year. 'There's not evidence per se
Nov 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery may ban retailers from buying tickets from own storesNews Story
Ontario lottery retailers are railing against a proposal to ban them from buying and cashing in tickets in their own stores, saying it unfairly portrays them as the villains in the province's lottery scandal. Retailers will be upset that we're the ones being painted as the bad guys in all this, says Chris Wilcox of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. tried to impose the rule on retailers in August before backing off in the face of the associat
Oct 31, 2007, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

How an LP major jackpot winner could help lottery playersReply
At the MUSL site if you click Where the money goes, you end up with this first page http://www.naspl.org/about.html It's heartening to know that's not where the money for all those rolls is hiding itself. $222 M (amount of total contributions to US beneficiaries) ought to be covered easily by a couple of high dollar rolls. Where the Money Goes Cumulative Lottery Contributions to Beneficiaries (From Startup to 6/30/05) - ($ millions)
Jun 26, 2006, 9:04 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum

Co-workers sue British Columbia man who won $1 million lottery prizeReply
Because it was verbal, the British Columbia pool was probably impromptu with no thought of giving the people copies of their pooled tickets. According to the story all we really know is Hung who bought tickets for the pool cashed a winning ticket, but no proof that ticket was part of the pool. IMO, I'd probably question if the ticket cashed by Hung was part of the pool too, but I would never join a pool without knowing what I was playing so that point is moot. It's obvious or should be to lo
Mar 28, 2019, 7:10 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

D.C. continues rollout of online gamblingNews Story
The bright glass-and-copper library on Benning Road NE just beyond the Anacostia River opened last year as an anchor for redevelopment and a refuge for the mind. Now, District officials are deciding whether they should use the gleaming outpost in a depressed section of the city for another pioneering purpose: as a gateway to online gambling and the promise of millions of dollars in government revenue. The scramble is on to launch an online casino in the District, which is the first jurisdi
Jun 30, 2011, 8:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery to undergo criminal investigationNews Story
The Ontario government called police yesterday after the province's ombud accused unscrupulous lottery-ticket retailers of collecting tens of millions of dollars in dishonest'' winnings and the responsible Crown agency of letting them get away with it. Public Infrastructure Minister David Caplan asked police to look into Andre Marin's report probing a disproportionate number of jackpot wins by so-called lottery insiders a report that amounted to a searing indictment of the Ontario Lotter
Mar 27, 2007, 8:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

Where is District of columbia ?Reply
lottaloot, I did some further research on the web for the facts. Some maps list Washington, D.C. as the captital of the United States, if counted it would the 51st state. The district is still trying to get statehood. This is what I found. Washington, D. C. is the capital of the United States. It is a lottery participating territory. The District of Columbiaidentical with the city of Washingtonis the capital of the United States. It is located between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac Rive
Nov 11, 2004, 4:01 pm - LAVERNE MALONEY - Pick 3 Forum

Are repeat Wisconsin Lottery winners playing fair?News Story
Since 2009, Khalil Audi of Cudahy has cashed in lottery tickets 33 times to the tune of about $80,000. His $10,000 win from Badger Cash Blowout? A one-in-72,000 chance. When he bought a $30 Super Millions scratch-off ticket, he had a one-in-200,000 shot of winning $5,000 the same odds as giving birth to conjoined twins. But that ticket was also a winner. Audi's success is surprising, but he is not the luckiest person in Wisconsin. According to Wisconsin Lottery data obtained by Gamin
Mar 25, 2018, 10:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery windfalls can buy anything except anonymityNews Story
Former Canadian lottery winners say lucky ticket holder should prepare for wave of unwanted attention The hucksters started calling only hours after Brenda Schley's good fortune was announced. Strange cars turned up outside her Clearwater, B.C., home. Then strangers began rubbing the 57-year-old for luck. And that win only involved $1.75 million. It's almost scary, says Schley, a year after matching six out of six numbers on a Lotto 6/49 draw. We had to leave the house for abo
Mar 12, 2015, 10:18 am - Todd - Lottery News