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Kentucky Lottery hurt by players' luckNews Story
Big prize payouts by the Kentucky Lottery, including multimillion dollar payments to winners in three February Pick 3 games, are making a dent in the amount of money being returned to the state treasury, lottery officials said Friday.Normally, in the twice-daily Pick 3 drawing, having the same digit for all three numbers occurs only once every six weeks or so, lottery officials said. But 3-3-3 was drawn on Feb. 2, resulting in payment of $2.86 million in prizes, 2-2-2 was drawn on Feb. 12, resul
Mar 28, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News

NY Post chides rival paper over lottery errorNews Story
The New York Post appears to be enjoying the mess that its long-time rival, The New York Daily News, created when it printed erroneous lottery numbers, and misled thousands of readers into thinking they won big bucks.The Post's editorial was scathing, including a call by the paper for the Daily News to award all the prize money that they initially reported people won. New York Post criticizes rival(by New York Daily News)New York's hometown newspaper scamsters tried to buy their way out of big t
Mar 22, 2005, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Court: Ex-Husband Can Share Lottery JackpotNews Story
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that the ex-husband of a $7 million lottery winner deserves to share her fortune.The high court's 5-0 ruling upheld a lower court order that Pamela Noyes-Dombrowski pay Eugene M. Dombrowski alimony after the dissolution of their nearly 14-year marriage.In 1992, after years of spending a few dollars each week playing the lottery, despite opposition from her husband, Noyes-Dombrowski hit the jackpot for $7 million. She opted to receive the winnings in ann
Mar 22, 2005, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Winning $4.86 million lottery ticket recovered from store garbageNews Story
Being a good Samaritan may not pay off in money, but doing a good deed is reward enough for one store clerk who rescued a nearly $5 million lottery ticket from the trash and returned it to its rightful owner. It didn't even cross my mind to keep it. I just knew it was hers, said Sherry Brust, a customer service cashier at a Fred Meyer store in Port Orchard. I'm just that type of a person. ... I like to help people. Brust and another co-worker at the store sifted through a trash can last week a
Mar 18, 2005, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Cardinal demands U.K. lottery boycottNews Story
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, called for a boycott of the UK National Lottery after it was revealed that the National Lottery gave 3.3 million (US$6.3 million) to Brook Advisory Centers and the FPA (Family Planning Association) both of which support abortions as a means of family planning.A total of 17 awards worth 1.7 million (US$3.3 million) have been made to Brook Advisory Centers and eight grants totaling 1.6 million (US$3.1 million) have gone to the FPA.Ca
Mar 14, 2005, 10:42 am - Lottery News

Tennessee flooded with a multitude of lottery billsNews Story
On the brink of $1 billion in ticket sales, the year-old Tennessee lottery is the subject of 53 bills in the General Assembly to alter its operations.State Rep. Ulysses Jones Jr., D-Memphis, who chaired an abbreviated meeting of the joint Lottery Oversight Committee on Monday, said the number of bills to change the lottery was more than I expected. But every bill's sponsor will not leave the legislative session happy, he said. I don't think you'll see 53 bills coming out of committee, Jones sa
Mar 8, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery to suspend sales for one dayNews Story
Lottery giant GTECH criticizes rival Scientific Games for 'dark day'Colorado plans to halt lottery ticket sales for one day this spring while workers install machines that verify which tickets are winners.New York-based Scientific Games is taking over the job of managing the lottery machines under a state contract worth an estimated $43.5 million. The switch to Scientific Games was supposed to happen Nov. 1 last year, but glitches delayed it twice, pushing the start date to May 2.Lottery sales w
Mar 1, 2005, 3:30 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lotto winner sued — againNews Story
Robert Swofford Jr. had $35 million in Florida Lotto winnings, and his soon-to-be ex-wife wanted a piece of it.Swofford solved that problem, but now he's got another one: The ex-wife's sister wants a cut, too, and she's taking him to court to get it.The way Mary Lackey sees it, she deserves part of the money every bit as much as her sister Ann did. And some folks might agree she has a point. Swofford fathered children by both women in 1993. Mary Lackey says she wants the money for her daughter.O
Feb 28, 2005, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Idaho man, 22, wins Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
A 22-year-old restaurant manager is the winner of Wednesday's $18.7 million Powerball jackpot.Eric Kyle bought the $1 Powerball ticket on a whim at a Big Smoke store last Tuesday, and didn't realize he held the winner until he saw news reports on Thursday. I was instantly shaking, Kyle said during a news conference at Idaho Lottery headquarters Thursday afternoon. It's something I dreamed about for a long time. After waking his roommate to check the numbers, Kyle called lottery officials. Then
Feb 25, 2005, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

California's lottery retailer of the month is small family-owned storeNews Story
A relatively small Vallejo, California family business in a diminutive strip mall beat out more than 18,000 stores of all sizes to be named California's State Lottery Retailer of the Month for March.A ceremony was held at Vallejo's Market Town Liquor Deli on Tuesday.The accomplishment is remarkable considering Market Town's size, said Lance De Anda, a lottery official. The store has generated $4 million in lottery sales and contributed $1.5 million to public education since going into business
Feb 23, 2005, 2:39 pm - Lottery News