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Lotto: the business of making dreams come trueNews Story
Georges Gharib likes his job. I contribute to bringing joy, he says. And he likes to talk about it. Gesticulating while talking on the phone, signing papers during interviews, Gharib seems at home in his office overlooking Charles Malek Avenue.Gharib is the manager of La Libanaise des Jeux the company that manages Lebanons National Lotto.The joy his company has brought to some people is great indeed: in the past 11 months six jackpot winners have won between $1 and $3 million each.There are lo
Aug 18, 2003, 3:30 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery Readying Application For Stores To Sell Lottery TicketsNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery Board is working on the official application for convenience stores interested in selling lottery tickets.The board expects to ask convenience stores to apply in the next two weeks. Convenience stores must meet certain criteria, and they must agree to a criminal background check.The lottery board expects 3,500 to 4,000 stores to sell tickets. I think its going to be great for business. I support the lottery 100%. It's good for our state. Its good for education and its g
Aug 15, 2003, 11:28 am - Lottery News

Employee accused of stealing $17,000 worth of lottery ticketsNews Story
Teresa Lynette Guyton, 31, is charged with theft between $1,500 and $20,000, a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Authorities accuse her of activating, stealing and cashing an unspecified number of scratch-off tickets from the Copper Mart on Boonville Road.Guyton was arrested Wednesday and released from the Brazos County Jail later that day on a $15,000 personal recognizance bond. She could not be reached for comment Thursday.Copper Mart managers cont
Aug 15, 2003, 3:38 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Soars to $72 MillionNews Story
Summer may be winding down but America's favorite lottery game is heating up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 389,455 players across the nation won a total of almost $2.7 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $72 million.The cash option for the Saturday, August 16 drawing will be an estimated $37.8 million.The numbers drawn were: 26, 31, 35, 44, 48 and the Powerball was 32
Aug 15, 2003, 3:35 am - Lottery News

Washington jackpot at record highNews Story
Tomorrow's Washington State Lottery Lotto Plus game is at a record high of $33 million.The highest jackpot paid out under the Jackpot Plus game was in July 2002, when two people divided a $30 million jackpot.The lottery payout record was in October 2000 under the Lotto game, the predecessor to Lotto Plus, with a jackpot of $32 million, which three winners shared. (Ticket) sales go up dramatically with a big jackpot, said Eric Jones, Lottery spokesman.Lottery officials expect $1.75 million worth
Aug 15, 2003, 3:25 am - Lottery News

Prize for ticket may be prisonNews Story
A Ohio woman accused of altering a lottery ticket to claim a $25,000 prize went on trial yesterday, with both sides agreeing that the ticket shown to jurors was a poor fake.Brenda Alexander of Elyria could face up to 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine if she is found guilty of one count each of forgery and attempted theft. The defendant gimmicked the ticket, said Lorain County Assistant Prosecutor Steve List, telling the jury that Alexander cut out the $2 million symbol that originally appea
Aug 14, 2003, 4:07 am - Lottery News

Record Italian Jackpot Scooped by Single TicketNews Story
One lucky gambler won Europe's biggest-ever jackpot on Wednesday, pocketing nearly 66 million euros (US$75 million) and ending an almost six-month Italian lottery drought. Italy's lottery officials did not name the person who had correctly picked the six numbers in Wednesday's Super Enalotto but said the winning ticket had been bought in a bar in the northern Italian town of Veduggio con Colzano, near Milan.The day before the six-number draw, ticket sales in Italy had been up 25 percent from a w
Aug 13, 2003, 2:00 pm - Lottery News

Judge rules $25 million lottery ticket belongs to coupleNews Story
A New Jersey judge ruled Wednesday that a $25 million Mega Millions lottery ticket belongs to the couple that presented the ticket to lottery officials.Superior Court Judge Marguerite T. Simon rejected the claim by a group of hospital workers who asserted that the winning Mega Millions ticket really belonged to them.The decision came after days of conflicting testimony from Cornell and Teri Davis of Englewood, and laboratory technicians from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, who are part of
Aug 13, 2003, 11:42 am - Lottery News

Lawsuit has a pull-tab lottery plan on holdNews Story
A new Michigan instant lottery game planned for bars this fall is mired in a court fight over whether it is legal and is unfair competition to charities that sell similar pull-tab games.The dispute threatens to unravel half of a lottery plan that Gov. Jennifer Granholm said would add $50 million a year to the cash-hungry state budget.A lawsuit has temporarily blocked the new pull-tab lottery game, charging that it would violate state lottery laws. The new state game was supposed to be available
Aug 13, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News

Six indicted in numbers racketNews Story
Six people were charged yesterday in what authorities say is a massive gambling network that grossed millions of dollars a year in Northeast Ohio.A federal grand jury indicted reputed East Side numbers kingpin Virgil Ogletree, 81, of Beachwood, and his longtime friends and associates Eunice Bonton, Melvin Murray, Noah Hutchinson Sr., Andrew Freeman and Mary Stover. All are charged with running an illegal gambling business, while Ogletree, Hutchinson and Bonton also are charged with tax violation
Aug 13, 2003, 3:30 am - Lottery News