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N.H. Lottery To Sell $20 Scratch TicketsNews Story
New Hampshire scratch lottery ticket buyers soon will have a new choice and price range of games to play.The House on Wednesday approved a new $20 lottery ticket. The higher-priced scratch tickets will offer larger prizes and are expected to add about $5 million to state revenues during the next two years. They've already been approved by the Senate and have the support of the governor.Rick Wisler, executive director of the Sweepstakes Commission, said the $20 scratch tickets likely will be offe
May 12, 2005, 12:42 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Scratch tickets are boon for Ohio LotteryNews Story
Crystal Knox is partial to Fast Cash Bingo and Nifty Fifty, but she also likes Doubling Dollars and Wheel of Fortune. The certified nurse assistant estimates she spends up to $20 a day on scratch-off lottery tickets, usually breaking even or better. To me, it's easier, Knox, 37, a certified nurse's assistant, said of her preference for instant tickets over games like Super Lotto. The odds are better. Citing high growth in sales of instant games, the Ohio Lottery said Wednesday it earned $10 mi
Jul 1, 2004, 8:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Thief's 1000s of stolen lottery tickets nearly all losersNews Story
A man arrested for stealing 4,400 lottery tickets suffered the double ignominy of winning only a trifling sum from the stolen stubs, Metropolitan Police Department officers said Tuesday.Yoshihiko Akao, 31, a company employee from Gotenba, Shizuoka Prefecture, was arrested for robbery after he allegedly pilfered 4,400 unused lottery tickets from a sales outlet in Tokyo.Instead of the billions of yen he dreamed of, however, the tickets Akao spent all night checking to see how much he'd won were la
May 25, 2004, 6:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

Alleged Lottery Ticket Thieves ArrestedNews Story
Two men who allegedly stole several stacks of lottery tickets Oct. 22 from a Virginia donut shop were bonded Tuesday in Winchester General District Court.Joshua Aaron Roy, 18, of the 1700 block of Reaves Street, Winchester, was charged on Friday with breaking and entering and receiving stolen property.His alleged accomplice, Tony Eugene Dehaven Jr., 23, of the first block of Fabric Drive, Bunker Hill, W.Va., was charged Monday with the same offenses.Winchester General District Court Judge David
Nov 13, 2003, 5:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

First day of Arkansas lottery sales brisk, sellers sayNews Story
By midmorning Monday, Arkansas' new lottery had produced a $500 winner in Baxter County from a scratch-off ticket sold at Benny's Country Store, 6227 State Hwy. 5 N., and an unknown amount for college scholarships. Several retailers who sell lottery tickets here reported brisk and sometimes crazy ticket sales Monday the first day of the state's new lottery with proceeds dedicated for college scholarships. Drew Long, owner of Benny's Country Store, said a customer purchased the $500-winning
Sep 29, 2009, 7:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processesNews Story
D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined the ticket thefts were most likely com
Dec 21, 2007, 12:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Security heads list of lottery prioritiesNews Story
There could be a lot of winners after scratch-off lottery tickets go on sale at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.But it won't be because the lottery manipulated the games to produce more winners right away to entice more people to play.''It will appear there are more winners the first day than the second day,'' said Rebecca Paul, president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.''We'll sell more tickets the first day so we'll have more winners based on the fact that you sell more
Jan 19, 2004, 7:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery commission approves contracts for potential retailersNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery Commission is closer to putting together a network of ticket retailers after approving a proposed contract with about 30 guidelines for stores.A statewide database already has provided a list of 10,000 potential retailers, lottery executive director Tom Shaheen said. State law does not cap the number of places that will qualify to sell lottery tickets and it is unclear how many retailers will qualify to sell them.Shaheen wants instant-win tickets on sale by April 5, fo
Dec 28, 2005, 7:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Self-service machines coming for Texas Lottery gamesNews Story
The Texas lottery is joining the high-tech revolution.Lottery officials plan to install about 1,000 ATM-like machines at retail outlets across the state that will dispense tickets for such games as Lotto Texas, Mega Millions and Cash Five. The machines will not only sell tickets, but they will also be able to scan tickets from previous drawings and tell players whether they have won any money. We think the players will like them, said lottery spokesman Bobby Heith. You can purchase your ticket
Jan 29, 2004, 6:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Scratch-offs bring big cash to statesNews Story
Scratch-off lottery tickets may not produce the drama associated with high-jackpot games like Powerball or Mega Millions, but to most state lotteries they bring in something just as important: money.Lotteries across the country typically make more from scratch-off tickets than either multistate or state online games - the pingpong ball drawings of numbers that offer the larger prizes, according to several lottery officials. In most states across the country they sell far more instant tickets tha
Jan 20, 2004, 6:29 am - Todd - Lottery News