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Bob Newhart brings back Papa Elf in new Kentucky Lottery holiday commercialNews Story
Includes video report You may do a double take when you see the latest commercial from the Kentucky Lottery. Yup. Legendary actor Bob Newhart dusted off his Papa Elf costume from his turn in the Christmas blockbuster movie Elf to work with the Kentucky Lottery promoting its Holiday Gift Series Scratch-Off campaign. The 88-year-old actor's popularity spans multiple generations thanks to his television work on Newhart and The Bob Newhart Show, which aired in the 1970s and '80s. He was int
Nov 29, 2017, 7:10 pm - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery pulls second computerized drawing machine over duplicate numbersNews Story
Lottery will TEMPORARILY switch to real ball drawings while new computerized drawing machines are prepared By Todd Northrop The Arizona Lottery has taken a second computerized lottery drawing machine out of operation because it repeatedly chose duplicate numbers. Just last month the Arizona Lottery took its first computerized drawing machine out of service for the same problem. (See Arizona Lottery computerized drawing machine generated identical winning numbers, Lottery Post, Oct. 6, 2
Nov 23, 2017, 12:37 pm - Lottery News

Happy Independence DayNews Story
From the staff of Lottery Post, have a happy and safe Fourth of July! Enjoy the holiday, and feel free to use this as an open thread to tell us what you have planned for the day.
Jul 4, 2017, 7:05 am - Lottery News

Documentary: The Lottery LiarNews Story
Includes video report This is the incredibly strange tale of Howard and his wife Kathy Walmsley. One day back in the late 90's Howard told Kathy a whopper of a lie that he won a 8.9 million (US$11.5 million) jackpot in the British National Lottery. And Kathy believed him. As a result the two went on a shopping spree, buying fast cars, a dream home and a lifestyle fit for a multi-millionaire but it was all one big deception, as Howard hadn't actually won a single penny. The film was c
May 9, 2017, 8:54 am - Lottery News

College students audition to become a Lottery announcerNews Story
Nine students from several Rhode Island colleges gathered at Twin River Casino Wednesday night to audition for jobs reading the Daily Numbers and Wild Money numbers for the Rhode Island Lottery. Although the Lottery numbers are broadcast on Channel 12, they're read inside a small glass-enclosed studio at Twin River, just off a busy casino floor. It's one thing to practice in front of a mirror and it's another to be in front of a real camera, said Jahnna Burke, a 21-year-old URI student wh
Apr 27, 2017, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner recalls moment he became a millionaireNews Story
A pizza twirler from Greece by way of Long Island, New York, got the birthday wish of his dreams a $1 million winning lottery ticket. Dimitrios Hatzisotiriou treated himself to some scratch-off tickets on his 73rd birthday while he was waiting, ironically, for the bank to open. I was on my way to the bank to pay some bills, but it was closed, Hatzisotiriou said. I went to my friend's liquor store a few storefronts down and played some tickets while I waited for the bank to open. Littl
Jan 2, 2017, 9:52 am - Lottery News

The legendary luck of this Spanish lottery shop keeps El Gordo players coming backNews Story
Less than two weeks before Christmas, the line to buy a ticket for Spain's biggest lottery at Do a Manolita, which some consider the country's luckiest ticket vendor, was roughly 100 people long on a chilly Tuesday evening. Considering the frenzy that builds as the holiday nears, it was a short wait. Would-be players will stand for up to three hours in a line that snakes along back streets and past storefronts, crowding the capital city's holiday-festooned pathways for a chance to win the mor
Dec 17, 2016, 8:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket worth $1,000 dropped in Salvation Army kettleNews Story
The winning Pennsylvania Lottery ticket, worth $1,000, was slipped into the Salvation Army red kettle, tucked inside a wad of $1 bills. No one knew it at the time. The anonymous donation, made Dec. 6 outside the Walmart in Harborcreek Township, 5741 Buffalo Road, had the appearance of any other donation. But the timing of the generous gift could not have been better for the Erie County Salvation Army, as the agency's kettle drive continues to struggle once again through a holiday season
Dec 14, 2016, 12:07 pm - Lottery News

$403 MILLION: Powerball jackpot to guarantee a happy holidays for lucky winnerNews Story
By Todd Northrop While you're out Black Friday shopping, don't forget to pick up some Powerball tickets. For the fourth time this year, the multi-state Powerball lottery game's jackpot has crossed over the $400 million mark, and entered into the realm of wealth so vast that it's hard to imagine. After nobody won Wednesday's $374.1 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a whopping $403 million for Saturday's drawing the 13th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time. But
Nov 25, 2016, 9:07 am - Lottery News

Girl spots discarded winning lottery scratcher, donates winnings to Thanksgiving food driveNews Story
In this season of giving thanks, one student from Missouri shows what generosity is all about. When one young lady from Independence, Missouri, found a financial windfall, she gave it to others in need, overlooking her own needs. Phoebe Brown, 7, says she knew exactly what she'd found, and how best to use it. The second grade student from Sycamore Hills Elementary School in Independence was shopping with her mother at the Hy-Vee store on U.S. Highway 40 at Noland Road on November 9th, when
Nov 23, 2016, 7:36 am - Lottery News