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Powerball promotion set to draw 2020's first millionaireNews Story
One lucky person will get to start 2020 with $1 million in their pocket and Jessie James Decker will announce the winner. The country-pop star is set to announce the first-ever Powerball Millionaire of the Year during the live broadcast of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020, as revealed in a press release. I am so thrilled to be a part of this incredible life-changing moment on one of the most iconic shows on television! Decker, 31, said in a statement. The $1
Aug 1, 2019, 8:53 am - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery considering switch to computerized drawingsNews Story
Apparently new CEO looking to make things even worse at beleaguered lottery By Jon Lender The Connecticut Lottery Corp. (CLC) is quietly examining possible changes to the drawing procedures by which it selects winning numbers in its various games from the daily Play 3 game on up and one option under consideration is to discontinue live TV drawings that have been broadcast on local stations since 1977. Another option could be that, in addition to taking the drawings off TV, the lottery w
Dec 30, 2018, 10:04 am - Lottery News

Feds bust up illegal fantasy football lottery schemeNews Story
A business pairing the enormously popular fantasy football leagues with the Georgia Lottery must have looked like a money-making combination. Two eager investors thought so and forked out $500,000 in loans to the Atlanta man who hatched the idea of a fantasy football lottery league. But Timothy Cobb, a former lawyer who once worked for Turner Broadcasting System, was running a scam, according to allegations in a federal indictment unsealed this week. Cobb is no longer engaging in fantasy,
Dec 1, 2018, 8:34 am - Lottery News

China lottery corruption probe sparks online outrageNews Story
China's government is attempting to downplay social media rumors that lottery administrators have embezzled nearly $20 billion from lottery proceeds. On Tuesday, the South China Morning Post reported on the frantic efforts by Beijing authorities to refute social media chatter that around RMB136b (US$19.5b) had been embezzled by corrupt lottery administrators. A popular meme blames this corruption for the inability of the average citizen to win a sizable lottery prize. The meme has its orig
Nov 14, 2018, 9:41 am - Lottery News

College students audition to become a Lottery announcerNews Story
Nine students from several Rhode Island colleges gathered at Twin River Casino Wednesday night to audition for jobs reading the Daily Numbers and Wild Money numbers for the Rhode Island Lottery. Although the Lottery numbers are broadcast on Channel 12, they're read inside a small glass-enclosed studio at Twin River, just off a busy casino floor. It's one thing to practice in front of a mirror and it's another to be in front of a real camera, said Jahnna Burke, a 21-year-old URI student wh
Apr 27, 2017, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

Study: Seven Ohio residents won the lottery more than 100 timesNews Story
Includes video report An analysis of an Ohio Lottery database reveals that seven Ohio residents have won the state lottery more than 100 times in the last three years. A majority of those winners are in Northeast Ohio. Broadcast network News 5 attempted to contact the winners but they either did not want to be interviewed or could not be reached. Lucky, said Sandy Hibsman, a Middleburg Heights resident reacting to the frequency of winners. Very, very lucky. Hibsman added that she p
Apr 24, 2017, 8:58 am - Lottery News

House committee considers bill that would allow Texas Lottery winners to remain anonymousNews Story
Texas statute already allows winners to have 'minimal publicity' The concerns of a border resident who hopes to win the lottery someday has led to a bill now being considered by lawmakers that would allow the Texas lottery's biggest winners to remain anonymous. On Monday, the House Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee considered House Bill 59 by state Rep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, which would let winners of $1 million or more remain anonymous. It would not allow winner
Apr 4, 2017, 11:47 am - Lottery News

Louisiana Lottery showed incorrect winning numbers for Pick 3, Pick 4 on March 12News Story
The Louisiana Lottery Corporation drawing show that aired on television on March 12 showed the wrong numbers for Pick 3 and Pick 4, the corporation announced. The correct Pick 3 winning numbers for the drawing are 0-4-7. Additionally the correct Pick 4 winning numbers for the drawing are 3-1-8-4. Both sets of numbers were correctly displayed on Lottery Post's Louisiana Lottery Results page, despite the wrong numbers appearing on TV. The TV show incorrectly reported that the Pick 3 numb
Mar 13, 2017, 3:16 pm - Lottery News

Spain's El Gordo lottery sparks celebrations across MadridNews Story
Workers at a home for the elderly were among those celebrating Thursday in Madrid, Spain, after all the tickets with the top prize-winning number in Spain's 2.3 billion (US$2.4 billion) Christmas lottery were sold in one city neighborhood. The number 66513 appeared on 1,650 tickets in the lottery known as El Gordo ( The Fat One ), with each ticket holder winning 400,000 (US$418,000). The winning tickets are normally sold in several different lottery offices around the country but this time
Dec 23, 2016, 11:48 am - Lottery News

New York State lawmakers vote to legalize fantasy sportsNews Story
Months after being halted by the New York attorney general, daily fantasy sports won a major victory early Saturday as state lawmakers moved to legalize the online games. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has not yet indicated that he will sign the bill, but the final legislation included proposed modifications from his staff, suggesting at least some degree of support. Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general who first declared war on the industry last fall, declaring fantasy sports to
Jun 18, 2016, 2:53 pm - Lottery News