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Illinois Lottery to stop online, mobile app sales of single ticketsNews Story
Legislation to save online sales fails In less than two weeks, Illinois Lottery players hoping to strike it rich with single tickets purchased online or via the lottery's mobile app will be out of luck. The Illinois Lottery Internet Pilot Program allows single tickets for the state's Mega Millions, Powerball and Lotto games to be purchased online or via its mobile app. The test run ends March 25, according to a statement from the Illinois Lottery. Bills that would have allowed the progr
Mar 9, 2016, 11:36 am - Lottery News

N.C. Powerball winner target of $10M lawsuit by local pastorNews Story
Marie Holmes, North Carolina's $188 million Powerball lottery winner, is back in the news again. This time Holmes is not spending millions of dollars on bailing her boyfriend, Lamarr Hot Sauce McDow, out-of-jail for the fourth time, but a pastor is allegedly suing her for $10 million for reneging on a verbal contract. The 27-year-old mother of two took home a $127 million lump sum payment following her lottery win in February, 2015. (See N.C. Powerball lottery winner claims share of jackpo
Feb 15, 2016, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Lucky NJ man wins third major lottery prizeNews Story
The start of the New Year appears to be a lucky time for Mike Ducker. In the last week of December 2013, the year he started playing the lottery, he won $20,000 on a 20X Cash scratch-off ticket. Then just a couple weeks later, in January 2014, he claimed another $20,000 playing the same game. But those cash prizes pale in comparison to the $200,000 he recently won playing the $500 Frenzy game. On Tuesday, Carole Hedinger, executive director of the New Jersey Lottery, presented Ducker, a Br
Jan 20, 2016, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteriesNews Story
The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs an undetectable software program in the computers that pick winning numbers so he can know them in advance. He enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they enrich themselves for years until a misstep unravels their high-tech scheme. Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been accused of tampering with drawings in four states over a six-year pe
Dec 18, 2015, 4:33 pm - Lottery News

Man in Iraq wins $6.4 million Oregon Lottery jackpotNews Story
Ticket bought online; Lottery withholds winner's name for security reasons For the first known time in the Oregon Lottery's 30-year history, the ticket for a winning big jackpot has been sold through an international online lottery ticket sales site and the $6.4 million prize goes to an Iraqi national whose ticket was bought in Bend, and whose name won't be revealed in order to protect him from danger in his homeland, officials confirmed Wednesday. We sell a lot of megabucks tickets, they
Dec 10, 2015, 7:11 am - Lottery News

NJ man goes on 10-store, 900-ticket lotto theft spreeNews Story
An alleged lottery ticket thief was not lucky enough to get away with stealing 900 New Jersey Lottery tickets, let alone hit the potential $5 million jackpot, according to police. An investigation led police to arrest Andrew Miller, 20, of Scotch Plains, on Monday, and charge him with a slew of ticket thefts, said Springfield Township Det. Lt. Judd Levenson, the department's spokesman. Miller was found in Scotch Plains on Monday at 12:30 p.m. after Springfield police determined he had sto
Nov 17, 2015, 3:25 pm - Lottery News

NY attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel constitute illegal gamblingNews Story
The New York State attorney general on Tuesday ordered the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop accepting bets from New York residents, saying their games constituted illegal gambling under state law. The cease-and-desist order by the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is a major blow to a multibillion-dollar industry that introduced sports betting to legions of young sports fans and has formed partnerships with many of the nation's professional spo
Nov 11, 2015, 11:08 am - Lottery News

Lottery scam victim lost life savingsNews Story
A Jacksonville, Florida, man said he thought he was helping another man retrieve thousands in lottery winnings, but instead that man took $32,000 of the victim's money and left. Now I can't trust anybody. I can't trust nobody now, the victim said. This changes my way of life. The victim, who is not being named, said he now wants to make sure no one else falls victim to the same scam he did. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office released a picture of the suspect that was captured in a Home
Nov 7, 2015, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $310 million sold in MichiganNews Story
By Todd Northrop One lucky Michigan lottery player in possession of a Powerball ticket containing the numbers 21, 39, 40, 55, and 59, with Powerball number 17, just became a whole lot richer. After all the proceeds were tallied Wednesday night, the Powerball jackpot stood at $310.5 million. It was the second-largest Powerball jackpot prize offered this year. The winning ticket was sold at a Shell gas station in Three Rivers, Michigan. Customers and employees were at the gas station last
Oct 1, 2015, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery starts new 'Texas Triple Chance' game next weekNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop Texas Lottery players will be getting a brand new game to play, starting next week. On Sunday, Sept. 27, tickets for the new Texas Triple Chance game will go on sale at lottery retailers throughout the state. It is the Texas Lottery's first all-new draw game since All or Nothing was launched on Sept. 9, 2012. The new game is played like a traditional lotto-style game, in which players choose seven numbers between 1 and 55. But unlike the other T
Sep 21, 2015, 4:58 pm - Lottery News