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Missouri Lottery Unveils "Big Sleigh Giveaway"News Story
Missouria Lottery players can start celebrating the holidays early with the Big Sleigh Giveaway promotion. Players will have a chance to win a 2004 Lincoln Aviator , travel certificates, home furnishings, big-screen televisions and cash in the promotion, which runs from Nov. 1 through Jan. 9, 2004. This promotion is very similar to last year's holiday promotion, said Jennifer Kempker, promotions manager for the Missouri Lottery. Players really liked the variety of prizes, so this year we a
Oct 28, 2003, 6:00 pm - Lottery News

5 proposals for equipment, services submitted for gamesNews Story
6 committee members only ones who will study informationTennessee lottery officials received five proposals yesterday to provide equipment and services for Tennessee lottery games and began to handle them in top-secret fashion.On and off over the next month to six weeks, a six-member evaluation committee of lottery executives will lock itself inside a room to study the proposals. The committee will be the only people who go in or out of that room, said lottery spokesman Will Pinkston.Each propo
Oct 28, 2003, 3:48 am - Lottery News

Officials choose lottery logo; firms put in contract bidsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials Monday picked a new logo from 100 proposed designs and learned they will have just two bids to choose from for one major vendor contract and three for another.GTECH Inc. and Scientific Games International were the only two firms meeting Monday's deadline for submission of bids to operate the state lottery's online network, which installs machines for selling tickets to statewide and multistate lotteries.Three bids were received for sales of instant tickets, also kno
Oct 28, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In Indiana and MinnesotaNews Story
Powerball paid off big Saturday night for two winning tickets; one sold in Indiana and one sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $190.9 million jackpot.The $190.9 million dollar jackpot is the tenth largest jackpot in lottery history. It ranks as the sixth largest Powerball jackpot ever.Each ticket holder will have to decide if they want the $95.4 million 29- year annuity or the cash option worth $49.7 million. The ticket holders will have 60 days after the tickets are validated to make th
Oct 26, 2003, 1:55 pm - Lottery News

Daviess County gas station sold winning Powerball ticketNews Story
Lottery officials say a convenience store in a small southwestern Indiana city sold one of two tickets that will share Saturday night's nearly $191 million dollar Powerball jackpot.Hoosier Lottery spokesman Andrew Reed said Shell Mart Number 2 in Daviess County sold one of the two winning tickets.The second ticket was sold in Minnesota.Reed says the Washington Shell Mart will be officially notified that it sold one of the winning tickets after lottery offices reopen Monday and lottery security p
Oct 26, 2003, 1:51 pm - Lottery News

New Michigan lottery games to start Monday, but controversy arisesNews Story
A group on Thursday said it is opposing Monday's kickoff of two new Michigan lottery games because the games might let Indian casinos stop paying the state a share of their profits.The group -- Worried Residents Opposing Neighborhood Gaming, or W.R.O.N.G. -- said the state could lose $30 million to $40 million that Indian casinos contribute each year to the state's Strategic Fund, which encourages economic development.It says the new games, Club Keno and Pull Tabs, would let the tribes off the h
Oct 24, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News

Cabbies win share of Big Game jackpotNews Story
A former Atlanta cabbie says the nearly $2 million he was awarded from a disputed Big Game lottery pot is a bittersweet victory.While Patrick Atakora is an instant millionaire on paper, he and five co-defendants who each were awarded $346,357 by Fulton County Superior Court still face the challenge of collecting the money.On Tuesday, a jury found Atakora and five other West African cabdrivers in Atlanta were denied their fair share of the winnings, which were distributed to 23 other drivers. The
Oct 23, 2003, 3:46 am - Lottery News

Circle K to Provide Self-Serve Lottery Via In-Store Kiosks in Calif.News Story
Circle K convenience stores has launched a self-serve lottery feature on selected ZapLink Web-based kiosks in its California stores. This innovative offering was created for Circle K in conjunction with , GTECH Holdings Corp., and the California Lottery.Circle K is the first retailer in the country to offer customers the convenience of purchasing lottery tickets on a kiosk using a simple Internet Protocol solution. Placing the lottery function on ZapLink improves the gaming experience and elim
Oct 21, 2003, 3:53 am - Lottery News

Big lottery vendor dogged by controversyNews Story
GTECH expected to bid for online games in TennesseeScandal and suspicion have marked GTECH's 22 years in the lottery business. But so has spectacular success.The company, which is expected to bid on the Tennessee lottery's online games contract, helps run lotteries in 26 states and 42 other countries. Its revenues exceed $1 billion a year, spokesman Bob Vincent said.But GTECH, which is based in West Greenwich, R.I., also has run into trouble, especially in the 1990s. In Georgia, where Tennessee
Oct 20, 2003, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Super 6 jackpot hit for first time in 11 monthsNews Story
One player matched all six winning numbers drawn in Friday's Pennsylvania Super 6 Jackpot, the first time in 11 months that the jackpot has been hit.The winning ticket holder selected the cash payout option, worth $36.1 million. The jackpot had grown to more than $61 million, the third-largest in the game's history. The largest was $73 million.Sales of Super 6 tickets have slowed since the state introduced Powerball -- a multi-state lottery -- in June 2002. The last winning Super 6 ticket w
Oct 18, 2003, 1:57 pm - Lottery News