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Iowa Lottery CEO announces retirementNews Story
Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich announced Thursday that he intends to retire in late 2018 or early 2019. Rich has led the Iowa Lottery since February 2009 and is just the second person to serve as its CEO since the lottery's start in 1985. Rich, 65, released this statement regarding his retirement: Over the past years, I've had the privilege of serving three Iowa governors while achieving some significant milestones at the lottery, helping with projects to address some of the state's biggest
Apr 20, 2018, 8:35 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery wins International Gaming-Compliance award for work in lottery rigging investigationNews Story
Long-running case culminated in 2017 guilty pleas from three men The Iowa Lottery has won an international gaming-compliance award for its work in the long-running lottery jackpot investigation that uncovered fraud against U.S. lotteries and resulted in guilty pleas from three men. GamblingCompliance on Wednesday named the Iowa Lottery its 2018 recipient for outstanding achievement in compliance. The organization's annual awards that recognize excellence in 11 categories focused on regulat
Apr 19, 2018, 10:29 am - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery often pulls plug on high-dollar scratch-off games before all prizes can be wonNews Story
Brittany Mowell and her husband purchase Hoosier Lottery scratch-off tickets a couple of times a week in hopes they'll win big. The Indianapolis woman said she felt cheated out of that dream once she learned the lottery was pulling certain high-dollar scratch-off games off the market before all the big-money prizes could be won and paid out. It felt so unfair she questioned whether such a move was legal. That really ticks me off, Mowell said, and I feel ripped off. Not only is the
Apr 6, 2018, 1:48 pm - Lottery News

$502 MILLION: Mega Millions grows to 10th-largest lottery jackpot of all timeNews Story
Half-billion jackpot comes 6 years after first reaching the same level By Todd Northrop Six years to the day after becoming the first lottery in history to feature a $500 million jackpot, the multi-state Mega Millions game is right back at the same level, offering a $502 million grand prize to be drawn Friday evening. During that nascent period in 2012, when the word billion first entered lottery jackpot discussions, Mega Millions tickets were being sold so quickly that the lotteries we
Mar 28, 2018, 11:32 am - Lottery News

$458M Mega Millions lottery jackpot is game's 4th-largest everNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery players across the United States will be lining up at lottery retailers for their chance to win Tuesday's massive $458 million Mega Millions jackpot, after nobody won Friday's $421 million grand prize. The cash value stands at a staggering $274 million. Tuesday's $458 million annuity jackpot is the 11th-largest United States lottery jackpots of all time, and the 4th-largest in Mega Millions game history. The cash value is the 14th-largest in history. (See full t
Mar 26, 2018, 9:00 am - Lottery News

NJ Lottery holds annual second-chance grand prize drawing eventNews Story
Woman's losing lottery ticket wins her $1 million A lucky group of 15 people turned their losing New Jersey lottery tickets into big bucks, including a Monmouth County woman who won $1 million. The 2017 Million Dollar Replay program, in its seventh year, allows scratch off holders to enter their losing tickets online for a second chance to win big prizes. The grand prize winner at Asbury Park Convention Hall on Friday was Suzzana Valuzzi of Hazlet. Valuzzi told lottery officials sh
Mar 12, 2018, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Mystery NH Powerball lottery winner gets her prize, keeps her privacy — for nowNews Story
Payout is anonymous, but winner's identity may be revealed later, pending court case A woman who sued the New Hampshire state lottery commission asking it to allow her to collect the $559.7 million prize she had won without making her name public collected her winnings on Wednesday, lottery officials said, and kept her privacy for now. The woman won the fifth-largest jackpot in the history of the multi-state Powerball lottery drawing in early January but began her legal odyssey when she si
Mar 7, 2018, 8:41 pm - Lottery News

Powerball sales drop busts NJ Lottery's 7-year winning streakNews Story
Lottery sales in New Jersey fell for the first in seven years in 2017 led by a sharp by decline in revenue from Powerball tickets, though scratch-off games remain the state's biggest money maker, according to the New Jersey Lottery's annual report. The lottery sold $3.186 billion in tickets for all games about $103 million less than in fiscal year 2016. The lottery still contributed $994 million to education and social programs last year, up from $987 million the previous year. Sales of
Jan 26, 2018, 5:00 pm - Lottery News

One lottery ticket from New Hampshire wins $559.7 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop One Powerball ticket holder in New Hampshire is the winner of the $559.7 million jackpot prize, the 8th-largest in US lottery history. The winning numbers, drawn Saturday night, were 12, 29, 30, 33, and 61, with Powerball number 26. The Power Play number was 3. The owner of the winning ticket can choose the annuity option in which 30 payments are made over 29 years, with each annual payment increasing over time. Most, however, choose the cash option. In this case, take-
Jan 7, 2018, 10:59 am - Lottery News

$550 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot soars on rolloverNews Story
Nearly $1 billion in multi-state jackpots can be won this week By Todd Northrop This week has seen a frenzy of lottery tickets sales across the United States, with both Mega Millions and Powerball simultaneously reaching massive levels. With the Powerball jackpot increasing to $550 million after the Wed. evening drawing, there is now close to $1 billion in combined jackpots on tap for lottery players this week. Seasoned lottery players keep an eye on the lump-sum cash value of the jackp
Jan 4, 2018, 9:55 am - Lottery News