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Kentucky Lottery launches online ticket salesNews Story
Without any fanfare, the Kentucky Lottery Monday began selling tickets online to try and attract more young adults. The initial offerings are limited to several lottery games, including Powerball, Mega Millions, Kentucky Cash Ball, and five instant games. Kentucky is the fourth state to sell lottery tickets on the Internet, joining Georgia, Illinois, and Michigan. Minnesota tried it for a while before the state's legislature decided to ban the practice. The Kentucky Lottery has worked w
Apr 19, 2016, 8:19 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery teams with PayPal for online paymentsNews Story
The Michigan Lottery is teaming with PayPal to offer players a new way to fund their online accounts. Starting Monday, the lottery says players may use PayPal to fund accounts to play online games. To make a deposit into their lottery account, players must have a balance in their PayPal account or the account must be linked to a financial institution account. Players also may withdraw winnings and direct them to their accounts with the payments system company. Lottery players can win up
Apr 15, 2016, 7:40 pm - Lottery News

Michigan man arrested for impersonating lottery worker, stealing ticketsNews Story
Lake Orion police have arrested a suspected thief who they say posed as a lottery agent at several Oakland and Macomb county CVS stores in order to steal Michigan Lottery scratch-off tickets. Police Chief Jerry Narsh says investigators found unique clothing at the Pontiac home of David Witherspoon, 40, that also appears in store surveillance videos. Narsh said when officers confronted him, he confessed, saying, I just have to steal. Narsh says Lake Orion police were called to the CVS S
Apr 15, 2016, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Teen lottery winner to pay off mom's homeNews Story
A Michigan teenager plans to pay off his mother's home with the winning lottery ticket she gave him. Gabe Smith of Pewamo told the Michigan Lottery his mother bought the lucky ticket at Muir Mini Mart. Smith, 19, said he scratched off the ticket and thought it wasn't a winner. But when he tried to enter the ticket's code into his Player's Club account, he got an error message. When Smith contacted lottery workers, they delivered the good news: his Bonus Ball Bingo ticket was worth $100,
Mar 22, 2016, 9:38 am - Lottery News

Connecticut considers allowing online lottery ticket salesNews Story
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would move the Connecticut Lottery online for state residents. A bill raised by the legislature's Public Safety and Security Committee would allow for lottery tickets to be sold online through a licensed vendor. If the bill moves forward, Connecticut would be one of the few states in the country to offer online lottery tickets. It would also be one of the only states to sell online tickets through an outside vendor. I've never heard of this befor
Mar 8, 2016, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Michigan man had $1 million lottery ticket in his wallet for monthsNews Story
Speculation swirled around Alma, Michigan, in mid-December when state lottery officials announced a $1 million winning Powerball ticket had been sold at the Speedway station on North Alger Road. But no one came forward with the winning ticket until now. A Kent County man walked around with the $1 million ticket in his wallet for two months before realizing he was a big winner, Lottery officials said in a press release. Daniel Chase, of Alto, won $1 million when his Powerball ticket matc
Mar 1, 2016, 8:43 am - Lottery News

Michigan man wins second lottery jackpotNews Story
Clad in a basic t-shirt and jeans, you may never believe Pat Kukla is the luckiest man in Calhoun County, Michigan. But he may be just that, The Michigan Lottery says. Kukla visited the Michigan Lottery headquarters Friday to formally accept his second lottery jackpot. Kukla won $384,832 Thursday, after matching all eight numbers in Club Keno's The Jack game. He picked up his winning easy pick ticket during a lunch break at MCB Sam's Coffee Shop in Battle Creek, after noticing how hi
Jan 29, 2016, 8:57 am - Lottery News

More state lotteries adding "win for life" gamesNews Story
More than half of US lotteries now offer a for life lotto draw game By Todd Northrop In the past year a new multi-state lottery game concept where the top prize pays out over the lifetime of the winner has swept across the United States. Just like there are two big-jackpot multi-state lottery games Powerball and Mega Millions there are also two multi-state for life games: Cash4Life and Lucky for Life. The games offer a top prize and a second prize that pay off over the lifetime of th
Jan 22, 2016, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot won by 3 ticketsNews Story
Winning Powerball lottery tickets sold in California, Florida, and Tennessee Final jackpot total of $1.5864 billion will be split 3 ways How would you react if you won? By Todd Northrop The largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Wednesday night by three tickets sold in California, Florida, and Tennessee. Since the initial jackpot estimate was set to $1.3 billion early Sunday morning, the Powerball lottery jackpot was raised two more times before the Wednesday
Jan 14, 2016, 2:51 am - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Wednesday Powerball record jackpot still risingNews Story
Cash value nearly $1 billion By Todd Northrop Is there anything happening this week that isn't Powerball? Apparently not, because it seems that everyone in the US is buying Powerball tickets at a frantic pace, forcing officials at the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) to once again raise the Wednesday Powerball jackpot estimate by another $100 million to $1.5 billion. The cash value of the jackpot is now raised to $930 million. By the time the drawing rolls around Wednesday nigh
Jan 12, 2016, 11:35 am - Lottery News