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$3M lottery win is ticket to retirementNews Story
Plumber from Denville can quit after 40 years, thanks to wife's lucrative Pick 6 Lotto purchaseAnytime Robert Hanson noticed that his wife, Karen, had purchased lottery tickets, he asked her the same question. Do I have to go to work tomorrow? asked Robert, a plumber for more than 40 years.Karen's answer was always yes. But not anymore.As of Nov. 3, Karen Hanson's lottery habit has her husband on his way to early retirement.The Hansons, Denville residents for more than 30 years, are the lates
Nov 20, 2003, 12:09 pm - Lottery News

Officials choose lottery logo; firms put in contract bidsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials Monday picked a new logo from 100 proposed designs and learned they will have just two bids to choose from for one major vendor contract and three for another.GTECH Inc. and Scientific Games International were the only two firms meeting Monday's deadline for submission of bids to operate the state lottery's online network, which installs machines for selling tickets to statewide and multistate lotteries.Three bids were received for sales of instant tickets, also kno
Oct 28, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Laval Resident Claims Loto-Québec's Largest Jackpot EverNews Story
The sole winner of the $25,418,690 jackpot in the October 3rd Super 7 draw, Qu bec's newest multimillionaire, Mr. Robert Fournier, has also earned the enviable distinction of being the province's largest lottery winner ever.While Mr. Fournier regularly purchases one or two tickets per draw, the bonus prizes offered by Super 7 over the past few weeks, and particularly the $25 million jackpot, motivated him to increase his wagers for the last draw. It turned out to be a move that paid off to say
Oct 9, 2003, 4:05 am - Lottery News

Bigger jackpot means higher lottery salesNews Story
Despite an alluring $115 million jackpot, Marion Blackwell didn't play Powerball Tuesday.The woman instead purchased tickets for the Daily 3 and Daily 4 drawing at the Blue Flash Food Mart on Cumberland Road. It was just a few months ago when Hobert Parnell of Rocky Gap, Va., won a $62.4 million Powerball jackpot at the same Bluefield store in late March.Blackwell said she normally doesn't play Powerball until the jackpot climbs above $150 million. I don't play Powerball until it gets real high,
Aug 27, 2003, 3:15 am - Lottery News

GTECH lottery systems built to handle blackoutNews Story
If someone you know bought a lottery ticket in Ohio, Michigan or New York in the seconds before the power went out Thursday, don't worry.That ticket is valid, and could still win a zillion dollars.GTECH Holdings Corp. of West Greenwich runs the lotteries in all three states, and its job is to keep those state lottery systems up and running -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.So Thursday, when the power went out, GTECH's systems in all three states automatically switched the lottery data centers --
Aug 19, 2003, 3:40 am - Lottery News

Lottery Corporation Names Consortium Of Law FirmsNews Story
The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation Friday named a consortium of law firms including Waller Lansden Dortch Davis PLLC, Burch Porter Johnson PLLC, Metz Hauser Husband PA and Spence Wade PLLC to provide outside legal services to the Tennessee Lottery. We received applications from a number of impressive firms and groups of firms, said lottery board member Jim Ripley of Sevierville, who led the search for a legal-services provider. At the end of the day, Ripley said, the consorti
Aug 18, 2003, 3:22 am - Lottery News

Facing Fraud Trial, Mayor Wins LotteryNews Story
The mayor of the small town of Dawson, Georgia won $500,000 in the Georgia Lottery a month before his trial on charges of insurance fraud and forgery. Mayor Robert Albritten went to Atlanta on Monday and picked up his prize, worth about $300,000 after taxes, said lottery spokesman J.B. Landroche.Albritten is scheduled to go on trial next month on 19 counts. The owner of a funeral home, he allegedly sold life insurance to elderly nursing home residents, many of whom may not have realized what the
Aug 7, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News