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Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Delaware Lottery publishes winner pictures -- sort ofNews Story
The Delaware Lottery takes pride in their privacy policy, only publishing winner names with their consent. To make the point, while still showing a real winner behind the story, the lottery takes the winners' pictures, but has each winner hold up a mask over their face. With a busy month of August, including sixteen people winning prizes of $10,000 or more, the Delaware Lottery has a lot of anonymous pictures to take. The result is a collage that could make even the stodgiest of us chuckle
Sep 6, 2007, 11:49 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery contributions decline for first time in 6 yearsNews Story
Lottery Not Blaming Slots for Flat Sales Pennsylvania's lottery sales stumbled in the just-ended fiscal year as slot machines came on line finishing flat after a half-decade of huge gains spurred by bigger games, more retailers and glitzier advertising. After subtracting expenses, commissions and prize money, the lottery contributed less money to state coffers than the prior year for the first time since 2001. State lottery officials insisted the arrival of slot-machine gambling in
Jul 24, 2007, 9:38 pm - Lottery News

First Ca$hola jackpot win in DelawareNews Story
A Dover woman won $318,770 on a penny slot machine at Dover Downs Hotel Casino. Ingrid Karas won the jackpot Tuesday on the multistate game Ca$hola. It was the first Ca$hola win in Delaware and the second-highest jackpot at the casino, according to a news release from Dover Downs. The game also is played in Rhode Island and West Virginia. Karas, a retired telephone operator, moved to Delaware from Long Island, N.Y, four years ago. Former Ohio schoolteacher becomes Ca$hola millio
Jul 12, 2007, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Widow recounts slaying of CT Lottery chief in new bookNews Story
Delaware native Denise Brown has always enjoyed writing, but becoming a published author has been a bittersweet journey for the 47-year-old. Although she's glad that her memoir, The Unspeakable, is available to readers, she would've preferred that there had never been a need to write it. That's because her memoir, released last month by the University of Delaware Press, is about the minutes, hours, days and years following the violent death of her husband, Otho R. Ott Brown in 1998.
Feb 13, 2007, 10:42 am - Lottery News

Video gambling a cash cow even for smaller statesNews Story
Surveying West Virginia's rural neighborhoods, where most people lack broadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is a lottery cash cow. That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers. There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzing and blinking video lottery terminals the reason this small state, with one of the country's lowest per-capita incomes is home to one of the most lucrative lotteries in the natio
Jan 30, 2007, 8:09 pm - Lottery News

Winning numbers chosen in Delaware Lottery's first raffleNews Story
The winning numbers for the Delaware Lottery's first-ever raffle were selected yesterday, Dec. 31, 2006. The winning number for the $250,000 grand prize is 00036224. The five winning numbers for the $25,000 prizes are 00029012, 00059271, 00066514, 00066667 and 00095829. There were 250 winning numbers that paid $500 apiece as well. The full list of winning numbers can be seen at: https://www.lotterypost.com/de-lottery-raffle-2006.asp The 100,000 tickets sold for the raffle cost $10 e
Jan 1, 2007, 4:09 pm - Lottery News

Most state lottery raffle games sold outNews Story
Around the United States, Christmastime raffle games have become the hottest ticket of the year, with most of the game tickets selling out well before the drawing date. The raffle games are loosely modeled after the largest lottery game in the world, Spain's El Gordo, which gives back an unusually large 70% of all proceeds in the form of prizes, and makes many instant millionaires. Unlike traditional lotto-style games, a fixed number of tickets are sold for raffle games, and the prizes are
Dec 30, 2006, 12:18 am - Lottery News

Maryland budget deficit looms as lottery revenue falls offNews Story
Maryland's lottery has been slowing down as a revenue source for years and will continue to underperform as residents seek other gambling ventures, including betting on slot machines in neighboring states, budget analysts and state officials say. The lottery has been, until very recently, the third-largest general fund revenues source, said David Roose, director of the state's Bureau of Revenue Estimates. But in the last few years the corporate income tax has become the third-largest.
Nov 29, 2006, 8:21 am - Lottery News