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Maryland Lottery to add horse race tie-inNews Story
A good idea is a jewel to behold, even if it seems to come out of left field, or, say, the backstretch where the main goal is aimed at a winner's circle somewhere else. In Maryland racing a couple of weeks ago, a good idea surfaced in the form of an announcement about a lottery campaign with a brilliant tie-in to the Maryland Million, the signature day of racing for state-sired horses. The Million, set for October 14, will come up for the 21st time this year, at Laurel Park, and this time aro
Aug 21, 2006, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Online gambling company says it will lock out U.S. bettorsNews Story
fBETonSPORTS, the online gambling company targeted by federal prosecutors in Missouri and Washington, is shuttering the majority of its billion-dollar operations and will no longer accept bets from the United States, a company spokesman said Thursday evening. The move was seen as a significant victory for prosecutors targeting online gambling and as somewhat of a surprise. Industry experts and even a company insider had predicted that BetOn Sports would simply ignore the federal criminal pros
Aug 11, 2006, 11:27 am - Lottery News

$10 Billion Lottery Proposal Stalls in IllinoisNews Story
A proposal by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to increase funding for public education by selling or leasing the state lottery for $10 billion may be headed nowhere. Blagojevich announced the proposal with much fanfare on May 23, but no supporting legislation has been introduced, political leaders are peppering the governor with questions that have not been answered, and allegations of political payoffs and cronyism have surfaced. A key inquisitor has been state House Speaker Michael Mad
Jul 26, 2006, 6:11 pm - Lottery News

BETonSPORTS Fires Jailed CEONews Story
Wagering firm distances itself from colorful founder and Costa Rica Embattled online gambling firm BETonSPORTS dealt its incarcerated chief executive out of the game with a terse announcement Tuesday that David Carruthers has been terminated. The company also put some distance between its operations and BETonSPORTS founder Gary Stephen Kaplan, who was charged with 20 felony violations and is currently on the lam. Mr. Carruthers, who was arrested in a U.S. dragnet nine days ago as he cha
Jul 26, 2006, 3:17 pm - Lottery News

Dad, son step up as $1 million lottery winnersNews Story
Weeks of small-town speculation ended yesterday when the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission confirmed a West Pennsboro Twp. family won $1 million on a ticket sold at the local pharmacy. Matthew Campbell and his father, Alvin, who live less than a half-mile from the MGM Pharmacy, snagged the prize during the July 4 drawing of the Millionaire Raffle. The identity of the winner had been the talk of the community since word filtered out that a winning ticket had been sold at MGM. For lit
Jul 21, 2006, 11:39 am - Lottery News

One lottery ticket wins $110 million Calif. SuperLotto jackpotNews Story
You could be $110 million richer today. That is, if you are the one lucky lottery player who bought a Super Lotto Plus ticket with the numbers 2, 9, 12, 20, 34 and Mega number 16. The odds are one in 41.4 million, but someone has done it. Wednesday's jackpot was the best payout in four years and the sixth largest prize in Super Lotto history. The ticket was sold at the Foremost Liquor Market at 301 Monterey Road, South Pasadena. The California Lottery is expected to make a formal ann
Jul 6, 2006, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery player in The Villages has 44 million reasons to smileNews Story
From the fairways to coffee shops, retirees Thursday wondered: Who is the overnight multimillionaire? News zipped from golf cart to golf cart in the retirement community that a convenience store there sold one of two winning tickets to Wednesday night's $87.9 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Our employees are all rattling about who it might be, said Teresa Gladstone, manager of the Circle K. We know it was none of us. The store quickly boasted the good fortune with a hand-written sign
Apr 21, 2006, 7:02 am - Lottery News

ABC duped by Powerball lottery winner hoaxNews Story
The brief hoax involving a man claiming to be an out-of-work truck driver who won the $365 million Powerball jackpot was months in the making. It involved two men who have jerked the chains of the national news media for years and was financed by a Texas author seeking publicity for his books, one of the pranksters said Tuesday. We had decided that one of these days, there'll be a record jackpot, and we'll have to go, said Bob Pagani, who portrayed the unemployed man who spent $2,000 on
Feb 22, 2006, 12:59 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas lottery surfaces againNews Story
The Arkansas Supreme Court's order to boost funding for public schools could bring proposals for a state lottery front and center again. At least two candidates for statewide office are touting a lottery as the way to solve funding shortfalls, and a legislator and long-time supporter of a lottery said he may push for such an initiative during a special session. Newly announced gubernatorial candidate Bill Halter, a Democrat, used his announcement speech to call for a lottery to pay for e
Feb 7, 2006, 10:15 am - Lottery News

After sale, GTECH to remain in R.I.News Story
Making it the latest Rhode Island company to be bought by a European firm, GTECH Holdings Corp. announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Lottomatica SpA, a Rome-based company that operates Italy's Lotto.The $4.8-billion deal will merge the West Greenwich-based company with the operator of one of the world's largest lotteries. Once combined, the two companies would have approximately 6,300 employees with operations in more than 50 countries.Under the agreement,
Jan 16, 2006, 8:03 am - Lottery News