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$3M lottery win is ticket to retirementNews Story
Plumber from Denville can quit after 40 years, thanks to wife's lucrative Pick 6 Lotto purchaseAnytime Robert Hanson noticed that his wife, Karen, had purchased lottery tickets, he asked her the same question. Do I have to go to work tomorrow? asked Robert, a plumber for more than 40 years.Karen's answer was always yes. But not anymore.As of Nov. 3, Karen Hanson's lottery habit has her husband on his way to early retirement.The Hansons, Denville residents for more than 30 years, are the lates
Nov 20, 2003, 12:09 pm - Lottery News

Lottery-ticket company wooing TennesseeNews Story
Already the country's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, Scientific Games International is now moving into online gaming and hopes to make Tennessee its newest customer.The Alpharetta, Ga.-based company is one of the companies competing for both the instant and online contracts for the new Tennessee games. Lottery giant GTECH Corp. of Rhode Island is also in the bidding.Scientific Games provides in-stant tickets for two-thirds of state lotteries and more than 50 other countries, and op
Nov 17, 2003, 4:33 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery joins the effort to find missing childrenNews Story
The Ohio Lottery will join the search for missing children this week.Working with the Northern Ohio Amber Alert, the Lottery Commission will display the names and descriptions of abducted children in a crawl across the screens of its sales terminals.Lottery tickets also will have information about the abducted children printed on them, Waite Hill Police Chief Arnold Stanko said at a public forum on missing children yesterday at the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. Stanko is on the
Nov 10, 2003, 4:54 am - Lottery News

Cohen says Tenn. lottery tickets will be on sale by Jan. 27News Story
The Tennessee Legislature's leading lottery advocate predicted Thursday that Tennessee will be selling lottery tickets by Jan. 27 and said the startup date could have been Jan. 1.Sen. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, said the state lottery board had dramatically underestimated the skill and speed of lottery CEO Rebecca Paul when it set Feb. 10 as the target startup date. He described Paul as a workaholic working 24/7 with the best lottery team ever assembled. Feb. 10 is the first deadline Paul, former G
Nov 7, 2003, 4:37 am - Lottery News

S.C. makes bid to help Tenn. lotteryNews Story
The South Carolina lottery, much like its neighbor in Georgia, has pitched the idea of helping out with the Tennessee lottery startup.Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) President Rebecca Paul was lured away from the successful Georgia Lottery Corporation in early September. The week before, the upstart lottery board here voted against the notion of a partnership with Paul and Georgia.South Carolina lottery officials were openly critical of the potential Georgia-Tennessee partnership
Nov 5, 2003, 5:31 am - 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

One ticket wins $15 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $15 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Summerfield in Marion County, officials said.A total of 158 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,260; 7,890 tickets matched four numbers for $53; and 137,222 tickets matched three numbers for $4.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 6-10-19-27-34-47.One winner of the Fantasy 5'' game will collect $245,498.92.The winning tic
Oct 27, 2003, 5:06 am - Lottery News

Russia's First Lottery Bill Moves to SenateNews Story
The State Duma on Friday passed in the third reading a bill on lotteries that will be Russia's first attempt at federally regulating the industry if approved by the Federation Council and signed by the president.The proposed law regulates the lottery industry in Russia by specifying types and standards of lotteries, rules for organizing lotteries, the system for exercising control over the organization of lotteries, the liability of lottery operators and other measures.Lotteries are divided into
Oct 20, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

S.D. Lottery investigating system failureNews Story
The South Dakota Lottery has asked a private company to explain why connections to the central lotto computer system failed, leaving many retailers unable to sell lotto tickets for nearly 2 1/2 hours last Saturday night.It was the third network outage since early July, said Clint Harris, executive director of the Lottery.Phone lines and equipment connecting the Lottery and retail outlets to a central lotto computer system in Dover, Del., and backup site in Sharon Hill, Pa., failed.It kept most o
Oct 17, 2003, 4:40 am - Lottery News