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CT Lottery partners with Giants for new scratch gameNews Story
The New York Giants are now in the lottery business. Monday the team announced a partnership with the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to launch a Giants-branded scratch-off ticket game later this month. License agreements between lotteries and NFL teams became possible after a vote by league owners at their May meetings. It's just one of the new ways NFL owners have found to enhance their bottom line in these tough financial times. The new lottery game is also expected to add $1 million
Aug 4, 2009, 11:39 pm - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery unveils Redskins scratch ticketsNews Story
The Virginia Lottery and the Washington Redskins unveiled a new $50,000,000 Redskins Mania scratch ticket that will go on sale in August, in time for the start of the 2009 football season. This is one of the first to be launched by a state lottery and an NFL team, according to a news release from the Virginia Lottery, taking advantage of a new NFL rule that allows teams to sign licensing deals with state-sponsored lotteries. The Redskins went all out for the announcement, displaying their
Jun 10, 2009, 7:28 pm - Lottery News

Indiana woman claims $2.5 million Lotto jackpotNews Story
A Summitville couple is nearly $1 million richer after winning the Hoosier Lotto jackpot prize. Pamela and Jay Smith won $2.5 million in the May 9 drawing. Hoosier Lottery officials made the announcement at a news conference in Muncie on Tuesday. I hope it doesn't change a thing, Pamela Smith said in a news release. I have a very nice life. I have everything I need. The Smiths decided to take their at the couple's home late Tuesday. The couple have no immediate plwinnings as a lump
May 20, 2009, 7:10 am - Lottery News

Mystery Powerball lottery winner spurs new contestNews Story
If you've checked your Powerball lottery ticket again and again and you are definitely not the winner of last week's $144 million jackpot, it's still possible to play. But not like that. The winner of the multistate game, which had the largest jackpot in D.C. lottery history, has yet to come forward to claim the prize, and Washington can't stop buzzing about who it could be. So the lottery folks, knowing how to take advantage of buzz when they see it, created a game that's all about anothe
Apr 16, 2009, 10:24 pm - Lottery News

Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawingNews Story
A special promotion is giving Missouri Lottery Pick 3 players a shot at doubling their chances of winning cash in the Midday drawing. From Oct. 19 through Nov. 15, the Lottery will draw the winning Pick 3 numbers along with a second drawing from among three white balls and one orange ball. If the orange ball is drawn, the Lottery will draw a bonus set of Pick 3 numbers, giving players a second chance to win cash to win from the same ticket purchase. Even though there are no balls utilized
Oct 15, 2008, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery director to retireNews Story
After 4 years on the job, Margaret Peggy Gordon is retiring as director of the Colorado Lottery. Gordon, who formally made the announcement on Tuesday, said her final day on the job will be June 30, the last day of the state's fiscal year. When she gets up on July 1, the first thing she plans to do is buy a Lottery ticket, which she's barred from doing as an employee. The average length of stay for a Lottery director is 18 months, and I'm at 4 years, so I think that's pretty good, s
Apr 23, 2008, 1:15 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery requires winners to sign ticketsNews Story
On the heels of a similar announcement from the Ontario Lottery, the Iowa Lottery has imposed a new rule aimed at reducing the possibility of retailer fraud. Starting March 15, 2008, Iowa retailers will only be able to check and cash lottery tickets if they have first been signed by the ticketholder. The lottery also reinforced that players are responsible for the accuracy of their tickets before leaving the store, and for determining if their ticket is a winner. Under current rules, re
Mar 10, 2008, 10:24 am - Lottery News

NC lottery to begin Pick 3 midday game in springNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery wants to begin a midday numbers drawing early this spring. Lottery executive director Tom Shaheen says the Pick 3 drawing would be performed identically to the numbers drawing held every night. The midday drawing would be held Monday through Saturday. Shaheen says an extra daily drawing would raise more revenues while giving the lottery another opportunity to attract players. Shaheen didn't give an exact start date to lottery commissioners hold
Dec 6, 2007, 10:25 pm - Lottery News

NY Lottery says it goofed: Mahopac winner got $31 million after taxesNews Story
The New York State Lottery has acknowledged that it made a $14 million mistake when it announced the amount of last week's Mega Millions award to a Putnam County man at Grand Central Terminal. The winning ticket bought by William James Albertson from Mahopac actually brought him an after-tax prize of $30.7 million. At the big announcement, presided over by Lottery Director Gordon Medenica and Lottery announcers Yolanda Vega and Ralph Buckley, Lottery staff told reporters that Albertson would
Nov 16, 2007, 8:29 pm - Lottery News

Mega smiles for New York lottery winnerNews Story
William James Albertson held his 5-month-old baby as he checked the numbers on his Mega Millions lottery ticket with those on the computer screen Sunday morning. The first two matched. So did the second pair. Then, as Albertson sat at the computer in his Mahopac home, the unthinkable happened. I kept looking at it and they all matched, so that's when I got a little shaky, the 35-year-old insurance manager recalled. The shakes were gone yesterday, when Albertson was revealed as the
Nov 12, 2007, 11:08 am - Lottery News