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Iowa lottery offering receiptsNews Story
Players who buy lottery or scratch tickets in Iowa now can receive a receipt, a move designed to enhance players' security. The receipt system is the second phase of the Iowa Lottery's enhanced player security program. The program began in March. Receipts will be available for every instant-scratch or lottery ticket that is checked or cashed. Two receipts will be printed one for the retailer, and one for the player. The receipts were offered for the first time starting yesterday.
May 6, 2008, 10:33 am - Lottery News

Record China Lottery winner collects prize in disguiseNews Story
The Chinese lottery player who won the highest sports lottery, 82.34 million yuan (US $11.76 million), in China's lottery history collected his prize on Sunday under police guard. On Sunday morning, the lottery winner, who calls himself Lao Yang, arrived alone at the lottery center in Chongqing, the country's largest municipality, disguised in a mask, wig, hat and sunglasses. The lottery center took additional measures to ensure his security. Staff members opened a secret passage for him a
May 6, 2008, 9:32 am - Lottery News

UK National Lottery operator Camelot knew manager was spying on rivalsNews Story
A manager at Camelot, the operator of the United Kingdom's National Lottery, used false identities to gather intelligence on rival companies, according to an official investigation. Alexia Latham, a media relations manager, used three aliases to glean information over a 10-month period as Camelot fought off competitors to win a lucrative 10-year license. On one occasion, Latham, 34, posed as a student using the name Karen Dikins and a fake e-mail address to dupe a leading lottery consultan
Feb 25, 2008, 3:51 pm - Lottery News

New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Lottery Post announces Lottery Results Gadget for Windows VistaNews Story
First-of-its-kind software hailed as must-have for every lottery player' Lottery Post announced today the release of the Lottery Results Gadget for Windows Vista, which for the first time delivers virtually real-time lottery results directly to individuals' Windows desktops worldwide. The new software operates inside the Windows Vista Sidebar as a small but highly functional lottery results monitor, capable of being customized and moved to the user's desire. When new lottery results are a
Nov 1, 2007, 11:49 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery joins missing seniors programNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission in September joined the newly-opened Silver Alert Network, which assists efforts by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to find missing senior citizens. The Texas Lottery Commission is working in conjunction with the Division of Emergency Management at the DPS, the state agency tasked by Governor Rick Perry with implementing the Amber Alert Network in Texas. The Texas Lottery is now issuing alerts at the 16,000-plus Lottery retail locations on LED screens and
Oct 22, 2007, 8:12 am - Lottery News

$800,000 lottery ticket now worthlessNews Story
Winning Powerball ticket sold; buyer misses deadline to collect prize A little more than six months ago, somebody bought a Powerball ticket at the Quick Mart at the corner of Cherry Road and Heckle Boulevard. Somebody, somewhere, in the lint trap of a clothes dryer, or maybe on the floorboards of a pickup truck, has a scrap of paper that was worth $800,000. That scrap is now worthless. The window for claiming prizes in South Carolina is 180 days. The unclaimed prize is the largest
Apr 25, 2007, 6:31 am - Lottery News

Lottery results cell phone service is first of its kindNews Story
txtGroups and Lottery Post Team Up to Provide Text Message Lottery Results txtGroups, Inc. and Lottery Post announced today that they are joining forces to provide instant lottery results to North American SMS subscribers. The new cell phone text messaging service, called Lottery Results Mobile Alerts, covers every lottery game played in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and United Kingdom. Other worldwide lottery games will be added soon. Anyone with a cell phone can sign up f
Feb 26, 2007, 11:41 am - Lottery News

U.K. Lottery operator wants to create global super-lotteryNews Story
Camelot will launch the first ever global lottery draw if it wins the right to run Britain's game for another 10 years with players from all over the world generating jackpots of up to half a billion pounds (nearly one billion dollars). The international lotto would dwarf the existing Euro Millions weekly game, in which nine countries have joined together to achieve astonishing top prizes of 125 million. The new game would span the globe with some 50 countries already voicing interest i
Feb 9, 2007, 7:27 pm - Lottery News

First Penn. Lottery Raffle $1 million prize claimedNews Story
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man has become the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lottery's Dec. 30, 2006, Millionaire Raffle drawing. John Maier of Churchville presented his winning raffle ticket at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County. After examining the ticket and executing other propriety security measures, Lottery officials today confirmed that it was one of the five top-prize winning tickets from the Dec. 30 Millionaire Raffle drawing. The fi
Jan 10, 2007, 12:27 pm - Lottery News