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Maryland Lottery sales on the riseNews Story
The appeal of a rags to riches story has never been more desirable than now. With a faltering economy dominating the minds and wallets of many, and stores predicting flat sales during the holiday season, Marylanders are spending less on retail goods. Yet local vendors agree on one thing. Lottery sales have increased this year. According to the Maryland Lottery, instant scratch-off sales are up almost $45 million from this time last year. Overall lottery sales are up by almost $10 millio
Nov 28, 2008, 9:54 am - Lottery News

South Carolina lottery sales increaseNews Story
South Carolina lottery officials say sales since July are up $6 million from the same period last year. Lottery officials say profits should reach the $252 million goal needed to pay for college scholarships. So, the economy is down, but people are still spending on lottery tickets. Peggy Adams sells them every day at Gullies Convenience Store. Because the economy is bad, and people are hoping to win some money to make things better, said Adams. The obsession to strike it rich ha
Nov 14, 2008, 8:12 am - Lottery News

Lawmakers steamed about lottery promotionNews Story
The Maine Lottery is getting strong, bipartisan criticism for its Funds For Fuel promotion as lawmakers say the lottery should not be using Mainers' fear of high fuel prices this winter to sell more lottery tickets. I think it is misleading, Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden, a member of the Legislature's Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee that has oversight of the lottery, said this week. It almost sounds like some of the money will go to fuel assistance. It doesn't. It is just another way to
Nov 14, 2008, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Young lottery winner discusses investment challengesNews Story
After winning million dollar lottery, Wall Street woes bring troubled times Includes video report By Louis Jay Louis Jay is a sophomore pre-business major at Towson University and the former online editor of The Towerlight. About a year ago you would have seen me on television promoting the Maryland Lottery, Let Yourself Play. You may have heard the story. I spilled a Tropicana Coolatta on myself. My grandmother, in her old Jewish wisdom, always said that if you spill something on
Oct 22, 2008, 9:21 pm - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket saved from shredderNews Story
An Australia man who unknowingly kept a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000 in a drawer for five years said he was close to putting it through the shredder. The anonymous winner got the shock of his life when he was told the old ticket had netted him first prize in a $2 million jackpot lottery draw, back in March 2001. The man said he had been planning to get rid of the unchecked tickets he had amassed during his 30 year lottery hobby. I've had a drawer full of unregistered lottery t
Mar 11, 2008, 2:18 pm - Lottery News

Small N.Y. store sells lots of winning lottery ticketsNews Story
It's called Broadway News, but the Money Store might be a better name. New York State Lottery money falls like thousand-dollar bills from heaven at the newsstand at 352 Broadway in Newburgh. Since 2002, 154 people have won $1,000 or more at the store. That's nearly twice as many as the next store with the most winners in Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, a Sunday Record analysis found. The Quick Mart at 515 Broadway sells nearly as many tickets but had just 81 winners in the same time.
Mar 3, 2008, 9:32 am - Lottery News

Governor's plan to lease Vt. state lottery comes up a loserNews Story
Some called it the final nail in the coffin. Some called it a eulogy. Whatever they called it, members of the state Senate said a bill they passed Tuesday will likely stand as a tombstone over Gov. James Douglas' proposed lease of the state lottery. The bill seems fairly mundane in itself. It requires lawmakers' approval before the lottery could be leased something that might well have been required by law already. And the administration was already planning on obtaining Legislative accepta
Feb 27, 2008, 8:47 am - Lottery News

Contractors steal $70,000 in lottery prize moneyNews Story
Computer system breached; technicians printed bogus tickets, investigators allege D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial I
Jan 9, 2008, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

GTECH takes half ownership of Chinese lottery firmNews Story
Providence, R.I.-based lottery technology company GTECH Global Services Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italy's Lottomatica S.p.A., has spent $20 million to acquire 50 percent of Tabcorp International Hong Kong Ltd. (TIHK), a Chinese lottery provider. That 50-percent portion of Tabcorp is being spun into a separate entity and renamed CLS-GTECH Co. Ltd. The new entity is being formed to expand a nationwide KENO system for lotteries throughout China, according to company officials. Tab
Dec 21, 2007, 1:56 pm - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processesNews Story
D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined the ticket thefts were most likely com
Dec 21, 2007, 12:34 pm - Lottery News