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Giant lottery operator GTECH wants to add Tennessee to its clienteleNews Story
Financial advisers have long said that lottery players would fare better investing their money in the stock market than hoping the pingpong balls pop up with their numbers.If you followed that advice and bought stock in the largest lottery operator in the country, GTECH Holdings, over the past decade, chances are the investment would have paid off better about 500% better.The West Greenwich, R.I., company's stock price has doubled in the past year, closing Friday at $42.77; GTECH's revenues have
Sep 8, 2003, 3:49 am - Lottery News

GTech has winning lottery ticket, checkered pastNews Story
A Rhode Island company that practically built the nation's state lottery business just added the Florida Lottery as the missing gem to its crown jewels.GTech Corp. last week became the successful bidder to run the Florida Lottery system. With Florida in hand, the company will run all five of the country's biggest state lottery systems - New York, Texas, Georgia, California and Florida. Altogether, GTech will operate 26 of the 36 state lottery systems, plus the Washington, D.C., system. We genera
Sep 8, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News

Georgia's Lottery Director to QuitNews Story
Rebecca Paul, who started Georgia's lottery and has been its only director for 10 years, is jumping ship to run the startup lottery for neighboring Tennessee. She has informed the governor, Dan McLagan, a spokesman for Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, said. Mrs. Paul has indicated she is looking for a new challenge. We certainly wish her well. Earlier Sunday, two sources told The Associated Press Paul was negotiating with Tennessee officials to head their new lottery and that she was expected to tak
Sep 8, 2003, 3:38 am - Lottery News

Bad breaks, but then a Lotto luckNews Story
Everything that could go wrong seemed to be going wrong for Joan D. Hoffman over Labor Day weekend. First the stove went. Then the hot water tank.So the Williamsville great-grandmother decided to try changing her luck by buying a Lotto Quick Pick ticket Aug. 30 in the Quality supermarket at Sheridan Drive and Delaware Road in the Town of Tonawanda.Not until she saw the winning numbers the next day - 11, 15, 16, 25, 44 and 47 - did she discover she had won one of the largest Lotto jackpots in Wes
Sep 6, 2003, 5:39 pm - Lottery News

Ford plans dealer lottery for scarce GT supercar supplyNews Story
Most Americans must win a lottery to afford a $100,000-plus Ford GT. Next year, many Ford dealers must win a lottery to sell one.Ford Division intends to produce just 1,500 GTs per year, but it has about 3,800 dealers in the United States.Top-rated dealers, winners of the annual President's Award in 2004, will get one GT to sell, the company says. The rest of the GTs will be distributed among high-volume dealers and to winners of a lottery.Typically, about 10 percent, or 380, dealers win the Pr
Sep 5, 2003, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Convenience store owners buy winning ticket from own storeNews Story
The owners of a Russell, New York convenience store discovered a scratch-off lottery ticket they bought from their own shop a month ago was a $5 million winner.Kenneth Grimshaw said his sister-in-law, Nancy Grimshaw, started scratching off the ticket after she bought it last month, but set it aside on a countertop when she got busy.She didn't completely scratch off the ticket until Thursday morning, he said. The 46-year-old woman and her husband, Kendrick Grimshaw, have been co-owners of the sto
Sep 5, 2003, 9:59 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket wasn’t too lucky for alleged thievesNews Story
Two Ohio men appeared in County Municipal Court Eastern Area Division Thursday accused in the connection of theft of items from Akenheads Dairy, including 395 lottery tickets.Adam Lee Coburn, 19, 137 N. Market St., is charged with breaking and entering, a fourth-degree felony. According to police, early Tuesday Coburn allegedly broke out a window of the store and entered. Taken from the store were 24 cartons of cigarettes, 15 cigarette lighters, three boxes of cigarette rolling papers, two bottl
Sep 5, 2003, 9:55 am - Lottery News

$135 Million Powerball Winners From New Hampshire, MassachusettsNews Story
The winners of last week's $135 million Powerball jackpot are from New Hampshire and Massachusetts and will go public this afternoon.The lottery says the winners are family members who live in the Conway, N.H., area and in the greater Boston area. They plan to hold a news conference at the New Hampshire Lottery offices in Concord.The winning ticket is the largest Powerball jackpot ever awarded in New Hampshire. It was sold at the State Line Store in Center Conway, along the Maine border. It's be
Sep 5, 2003, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Elderly man loses $20,000 in lottery scam, police sayNews Story
Police said Wednesday they are investigating a lottery scam that targeted one elderly Vallejo man and possibly other victims in Vacaville and Sacramento.Vallejo police did not identify the local victim, who is in his 80s. They said he was approached in June by a Hispanic woman as he left Albertson's supermarket, 2001 Solano Ave. A lot of the lottery scams single out the elderly, Detective James Mathews noted.The female, who was crying, approached the victim and told him she had a winning lotte
Sep 5, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Lottery board narrows list of CEO candidates to threeNews Story
The list of candidates for the top job in running Tennessee's lottery has been whittled from 15 to three, but lottery officials declined yesterday to say who the finalists are.One official said Tennesseans could rest assured that the chief executive officer candidates would be well-screened and that the board had no choice but to handle it this way.Lottery board spokesman Will Pinkston was asked why there will not be an opportunity for a public review of candidates or the board's selection.''Unf
Sep 5, 2003, 3:27 am - Lottery News