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Schwarzenegger spars with Davis on gamingNews Story
Two days before Labor Day -- the traditional kickoff of campaign season -- the gloves started to come off in California's untraditional recall election as actor Arnold Schwarzenegger accused Gov. Gray Davis of pandering to Indian gaming interests.Without detailing his own positions on some Indian gaming issues, Schwarzenegger issued a statement Saturday criticizing Davis for inviting gaming tribes to recommend potential candidates for two openings on the panel that is supposed to help regulate t
Aug 31, 2003, 5:51 pm - Lottery News

Computer problem shut down lottery machines across CaliforniaNews Story
Roughly 19,000 lottery machines shut down across the state Wednesday, with more than 2,300 in Southern California -- including the Coachella Valley, according to the California Lottery.Norma Minas, a spokeswoman with the California Lottery, said that the problem was thought to be caused by a software flaw.Minas said she had not heard anything about the problem being caused by recent e-mail virus attacks striking computers around the world, and that stores would not likely be facing legions of up
Aug 22, 2003, 4:13 am - Lottery News

Bookies in ExileNews Story
Costa Rica is highly prized by the world's backpackers and sightseers for its unspoiled natural beauty, but it's easy to forget that when arriving in its grimy capital, San Jose. The newly remodeled airport is surrounded by chain hotels, freshly paved roads and shiny corporate plazas. After that it goes rapidly downhill. A dusty highway heading vaguely toward downtown takes you through the poorer suburbs of San Jose, packed with families in corrugated-tin-roof shacks. Above them, on the sides of
Aug 19, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News

Calif. Lottery Commission to Hold Meeting in SacramentoNews Story
The California State Lottery Commission will hold a public meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2003, at the California Lottery Headquarters Building located at 600 North 10th Street in Sacramento, California. Members of the public are invited. Persons wishing to address the Commission at the meeting may sign up in advance by calling the Commission Assistant, Barbara Tynes, at the California Lottery, (916) 323-0403 by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2003.
Aug 18, 2003, 2:22 pm - Lottery News

Lottery-Style Drawing Picks Ballot OrderNews Story
The California Secretary of State held a lottery-style drawing Monday to determine the order of candidate's names on the recall ballot.Twenty-six letters were placed inside film canisters and then drawn randomly to set the alphabetical order for candidates. The first letter: R, followed by W and Q. Candidates with last names starting with those letters will appear high on some ballots, then revolve to the bottom in others before moving near the middle. The random exercise stems from a court ruli
Aug 11, 2003, 6:07 pm - Lottery News

Carson widow wins $91 million SuperLotto Plus jackpotNews Story
Patricia Frierson went to her factory job after winning the $91 million California Lottery jackpot but she went home in a limousine.Frierson had the sole winning ticket for Saturday night's SuperLotto Plus game. She bought it on Saturday afternoon at a liquor store down the block from an Econolodge motel, where she has lived for three years because she no longer could afford her town home.She returned to Village Liquors on Sunday, clutching her winning ticket and hugging customers and employees.
Aug 11, 2003, 3:20 am - Lottery News

Davis names Washington lottery director to head Calif. lotteryNews Story
Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed the executive director of the Washington state lottery to head California's lottery.Anthony Molica, 54, succeeds Joan Wilson as director of the California lottery. Wilson left the lottery to become deputy secretary of Southern California operations for the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.Molica held a variety of jobs for the California lottery, including director of sales, from 1985 until he was appointed head of the Washington lottery in
Aug 7, 2003, 4:07 am - Lottery News

California Lottery CEO LeavesNews Story
California Lottery CEO Joan Wilson, who headed up the lottery through a number of tumultuous episodes including two failed advertising agency reivews, has left her post after some three years on the job, a lottery spokeswoman said. No commentThe spokeswoman said Ms. Wilson was an appointee of California Gov. Gary Davis. She referred calls for comment to the governor's office, which did not return phone calls. Other attempts to reach Ms. Wilson by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful.Ms. Wilson, wh
Aug 6, 2003, 5:48 am - Lottery News

Poll: Lottery finds favor for raising revenue in NevadaNews Story
Most Nevadans favor a state lottery as an alternative means of funding education and are happy that state lawmakers didnt impose any more taxes than it did, according to a new statewide poll.Ninety percent of Democrats, 66 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Independents favored or strongly favored a state lottery, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal/News 4 poll.Women were more likely than men, 80 percent to 76 percent, to favor a lottery.People living in Clark County were slightly more a
Aug 4, 2003, 7:53 am - Lottery News