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New mobile app finds nearest lottery retailersNews Story
'Lottery Places' supported on all major mobile devices For the first time lottery players have a simple way to find a store to buy lottery tickets no matter where they are. Lottery Places, a new mobile app available on iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone, finds your current location and instantly displays the nearest lottery retailers. As the on-screen map is panned and zoomed with common gestures, additional lottery retailers are found and displayed in real-time. Touching a retailer rev
Jun 17, 2015, 6:58 am - Lottery News

Director of DC Lottery dies after suffering an aneurysmNews Story
Buddy Roogow, the director of the DC Lottery since 2009, died Saturday after suffering an aneurysm. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Roogow was 65. It is with great sadness that I announce that Buddy Roogow, director of the DC Lottery since 2009, passed away on Saturday morning, April 11, after spending Friday evening with family and friends. He was 65 years old. Buddy loved what he did and he was the Lottery's foremost champion. He was a consummate professional, dedicat
Apr 12, 2015, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery Director joins Lottery Industry Hall of FameNews Story
Public Gaming Research Institute has inducted Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery, to its Lottery Industry Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place at the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries conference in Atlantic City. I want to congratulate Executive Director Grief for his much-deserved honor, said J. Winston Krause, chairman of the Texas Lottery Commission. Gary's knowledge, experience and leadership are key elements to the continued success
Oct 8, 2014, 4:25 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery marks 5th anniversaryNews Story
With over 150,000 Arkansas students awarded almost half a billion dollars in lottery-funded Academic Challenge Scholarships, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is celebrating five full years of big wins and big opportunities as an engine for higher education and an educated, higher-earning workforce. Before that first ticket was bought at 12:01 a.m. on September 28, 2009, we could only guess at what this lottery could do for our state, Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Director Bishop Woosley said.
Oct 7, 2014, 9:25 am - Lottery News

Missouri Gov. orders review of Lottery operationsNews Story
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has asked the state Office of Administration to carry out a comprehensive review of the Missouri Lottery's operations. The lottery posted more than $1.14 billion in sales last year, according to unaudited figures, but its $267.3 million profit (which goes to education funding) was $31 million short of its goal and was below 2006 totals when adjusted for inflation. The governor cited declining lottery and casino revenue in his decision to withhold $35 million of educ
Jul 24, 2014, 10:13 am - Lottery News

2 charged with extorting cousin over stolen Florida Lottery ticketsNews Story
Ketan and Chirag Patel had big plans to cash in on Florida Lottery tickets but they weren't hoping for Lady Luck to work in their favor, deputies said. Both men were arrested Tuesday on extortion charges. After Ketan Patel found out that an employee at his wife's convenience store was responsible for stealing about $5,000 in lottery tickets, instead of reporting the man to authorities, Ketan Patel threatened to have the man and his sister deported if he didn't hand over nearly $250,000, de
May 15, 2014, 12:54 pm - Lottery News

Rhode Island Lottery starts midday drawingsNews Story
Lottery fans now have another opportunity to win big. The Rhode Island Lottery is adding a midday drawing to the Numbers Game. Up until now, the Numbers Game only had an evening drawing. This new midday drawing begins Sunday, May 11. Drawings will take place at 1:30 p.m. Videos of the midday drawings will be posted to the Rhode Island Lottery Web site and the Rhode Island Lottery's YouTube channel. The televised evening drawings will continue to be televised on WPRI 12 at 6:59 p.m. Mond
May 11, 2014, 10:51 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery announces CEO finalistsNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery has announced four finalists for the chief executive officer's position, which became vacant in November the lottery's board of directors fired former CEO Tom Romero without explanation. Romero, who had been with the lottery since its inception in 1996, had an annual salary of $165,000. The seven-member, governor-appointed board will interview the finalists on Friday, said lottery spokeswoman Linda Hamlin. The finalists include the lottery's interim CEO, David M.
Feb 12, 2014, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery CEO gets award named after herNews Story
The president and CEO of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. is being recognized by a leading lottery trade organization with an award named after her. According to the lottery, the Rebecca Hargrove Award for Mentorship is given in recognition of an individual's generous spirit that supports the wise and responsible development of the next generation of lottery industry leaders. Hargrove also is the first recipient of the award from the Public Gaming Research Institute. Institute CEO
Dec 31, 2013, 9:10 am - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery director appeals to state legislature to reject pending billNews Story
Restrictive measure will drastically reduce prizes, cut revenue, director says Statement from Bishop Woosley, Director, Arkansas Lottery Commission Friday afternoon, HB 2263 will be presented to the House Rules committee at the Capitol. HB2263 mandates that 25% of total lottery proceeds be used to fund college scholarships. The Arkansas Lottery Commission (ALC) strongly opposes this bill because of the immediate and detrimental effect it will have on lottery ticket sales, revenues paid
Apr 11, 2013, 7:22 pm - Lottery News