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Mississippi Lottery to start sales of Powerball and Mega Millions on Jan. 30News Story
Includes video report Mississippi residents looking forward to buying lottery tickets for the multi-state Powerball and Mega Millions games now can mark their calendars. Jan. 30, 2020 is the date when people in the Magnolia State will be able to test their luck on two of the hottest drawing games in the lottery business. Lottery equipment is already being installed at convenience stores. So far, more than 400 retailers have been approved to sell the tickets around the state. The Miss
Oct 23, 2019, 7:10 pm - Lottery News

Mississippi to start selling lottery tickets Nov. 25News Story
First MS Lottery retailers have been approved By Todd Northrop People wanting to play the Mississippi lottery will be able to do so slightly sooner than expected. The Mississippi Lottery Corp. announced it will start selling scratch-off lottery tickets Nov. 25 the Monday before Thanksgiving. Lottery officials had originally planned to begin sales on Dec. 1. Multi-state lottery tickets for games such as Powerball and Mega Millions are expected to go on sale in early 2020. The lotte
Oct 16, 2019, 8:50 pm - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery hits the Web and social mediaNews Story
The Mississippi Lottery Corporation (MLC) has unveiled a new look for its website and officially introduced its brand on social media in advance of its anticipated launch of scratch-off tickets by December 1. The MLC website, www.mslotteryhome.com, premiered this week sporting what the lottery calls a fun, new look. We have a website visually appealing and easy for our players to use, said MLC President Tom Shaheen. The product you see today is the result of a great deal of research and
Oct 10, 2019, 8:29 am - Lottery News

CT Lottery workers 'getting the job done' despite agency upheavalNews Story
Editorial by Rob Raczka and Mark Negralle As state employees and union stewards at the beleaguered Connecticut Lottery Corporation, we will be the first to tell you it's extraordinarily difficult to work in an environment described by our colleagues in an internal survey as fear-based, toxic and North Korea-like. It angers us that controversy and scandal have tainted our agency and generated a seemingly endless stream of news stories exposing the questionable practices of some senior mana
Sep 1, 2019, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Powerball winner claims $198 million prize sold at Hendersonville marketNews Story
A winner has come forward to claim the $198 million Powerball jackpot drawn on July 13, receiving the prize anonymously through a trust. The Freedom Trust claimed the prize on Thursday at the Tennessee Lottery headquarters in Nashville, according to a news release. The winner chose to receive the lump sum amount of $128.1 million. The winning ticket was sold at Worsham's Market in Hendersonville. For more than a century, the Worsham family has owned and operated the local landmark near
Aug 2, 2019, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery officials anticipate rush of sales from West AlabamaNews Story
People living in West Alabama will soon be able to test their luck in the lottery. Scratch-off ticket sales were set to begin December 1st, 2019 in Mississippi. The state's legislature passed a lottery bill in September, leaving Alabama as one of five states without a lottery. The Mississippi Lottery Corporation could not say whether the corporation would market directly to West Alabamians. Our director of advertising will determine which markets we have a presence in, Spokeswoman Meg
Aug 1, 2019, 8:35 am - Lottery News

CT Lottery quiet as uncomfortable allegations pile upNews Story
For a moment it looked like some meaningful information might be released to the public this week about the latest upheaval at the Connecticut Lottery Corp. (CLC) this time in the form of an order Monday that lottery Vice President Chelsea Turner be placed on an indefinite leave, six days after disclosing in sworn testimony that she contacted the FBI in about 2014 with suspicions of wrongdoing by a superior. But it hasn't turned out that way. The CLC's board of directors scheduled a specia
Jul 19, 2019, 8:22 am - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery targets Dec. 1 startup dateNews Story
The Mississippi Lottery Corporation says it plans for stores to be selling scratch-off lottery tickets by Dec. 1. That's the target date, said Gerard Gibert, vice chairman of the lottery board. It could be a little before, or a little after we haven't selected the vendors yet... But the plan is to have scratch-offs in as many retailers as possible by Dec. 1. Gibert said the plan is to come out with regular state drawing tickets sometime in the first quarter of 2020, and multi-state ticke
Jun 30, 2019, 8:50 am - Lottery News

Nearly $10 million in Louisiana Lottery winnings go unclaimed every yearNews Story
An unclaimed $1 million lottery ticket sold at a gas station near North Rampart Street in August, 2018 just expired in February, but there are millions of dollars in unclaimed prizes still up for grabs. The odds of winning the Louisiana Lotto is 1-in-3.8 million, but you don't have to win the jackpot to get a hefty pay out. We've had four winners this year, and one of them is for $10,000 and no one has claimed it yet, Richard Tallo, owner of Carwash Depot in Ponchatoula, said. Tallo is
May 13, 2019, 7:51 am - Lottery News

Mississippi hires experienced executive for its new lotteryNews Story
The Mississippi Lottery Corporation announced Wednesday that it is hiring an experienced executive as its first president. Thomas N. Shaheen, 66, begins June 1 and will oversee operations as Mississippi prepares to join most other states in offering scratch-off tickets and other game of chance. In an interview on Tuesday in Jackson, Shaheen said Mississippi could start selling lottery tickets by the end of this year. We'll work at a pace to get it started off as quickly as possible bec
May 8, 2019, 10:26 am - Lottery News