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Kentucky Lottery now using computerized drawingsNews Story
Coronavirus claims another victim: Real lottery drawings By Todd Northrop Starting today, you will no longer be able to watch how the Kentucky Lottery draws its daily numbers games because the drawings now take place inside a computer program. The daily Pick 3, Pick 4, and CashBall 225 games are all transitioned to computerized drawings starting Monday, and will no longer be drawn using balls and machines. Instead, a dedicated computer system known as a random number generator will rand
Apr 13, 2020, 9:11 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery president and CEO set to retireNews Story
In today's meeting of the Kentucky Lottery Corporation's board of directors, Lottery President and CEO Tom Delacenserie announced his retirement effective March 6. Delacenserie, who turns 72 years old this year, assumed the top job in May 2017. Sales from FY17 through FY19 rose from $1,000,501,000 to $1,129,655,000, a $129.1 million (12.9%) increase during his tenure. We've accomplished a tremendous amount in the last two and a half years, Delacenserie said. We strengthened our brand by c
Jan 24, 2020, 12:30 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery to expand ticket sales at checkout lanesNews Story
Charlie Thomas, a home health care provider who also scrubs floors in the evening, says he buys lottery tickets every time I get a paycheck. Thomas, 55, has been playing the Texas Lottery for two decades. His fortune hunting takes a $30 bite out of his weekly pay, but he's won about $1,000 over the years. His most recent good fortune was a $100 win on a bingo lottery ticket. He was less lucky one day last month: The $2 scratch-off he bought at an East Austin convenience store came up empt
Jan 21, 2020, 9:36 am - Lottery News

Students head back to campus thanks to help from the Kentucky LotteryNews Story
As college students across Kentucky head back to school, a large number of them have proceeds from Kentucky Lottery sales to help pave the way. Lottery proceeds provide every dime of the KEES scholarship ever awarded, many of which will be used at college campuses this semester. In addition, Lottery proceeds fund the need-based College Access Program and Kentucky Tuition Grants programs. All told, $3.4 billion in Kentucky Lottery proceeds have been used for the college scholarship and gran
Aug 18, 2019, 10:22 pm - Lottery News

Massachusetts retailers resist Lottery's push for online salesNews Story
The Massachusetts Lottery's technological systems are on par with an old, wall-mounted rotary phone outdated and inconvenient, but it still works while customers increasingly expect to be linked to the world through a smartphone at all times, the agency's executive director told lawmakers last week. Holding up a large, black rotary phone, Executive Director Michael Sweeney made his latest pitch to lawmakers to allow the Mass. Lottery to offer its current products scratch tickets, draw games,
Jul 8, 2019, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Country House declared Kentucky Derby winner after Maximum Security disqualifiedNews Story
First winner disqualified in 145-year history of Derby Maximum Security led all the way in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, only to become the first winner disqualified for interference in the race's 145-year history. After a long wait, 65-1 shot Country House was declared the winner. The announcement seemed to come from the heavens, and then all hell broke loose. Hold all tickets. Country House was declared the winner of Saturday's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after the second
May 5, 2019, 8:34 am - Lottery News

Tennessee man hits $2 million lottery, says 'I'm still a redneck'News Story
Includes video report Timothy Seratt has lived paycheck to paycheck his whole life. Born and raised in Dyersburg, the 32-year-old father of two has never flown on a plane or been north of Kentucky. But now, after winning the lottery, he's a millionaire. Seratt won $2 million dollars playing a Mega Millionaire Jumbo Bucks scratch-off this week, taking home $1.3 million after taxes. It's still crazy, he said. Well, I mean I've never owned a house. So, I mean that's the first thing.
Apr 26, 2019, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

State lotteries line up against DOJ reversal on Wire ActNews Story
State lotteries continue to fight back against a January Department of Justice reversal of its interpretation of the Wire Act, threatening every form of online gambling in the country. (See DOJ reverses 2011 opinion of the Wire Act; legal online gaming in question, Lottery Post, Jan. 14, 2019.) Now the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined a New Hampshire lawsuit challenging the validity of the new Wire Act opinion. Before joining the lawsuit, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro co
Mar 11, 2019, 9:26 am - Lottery News

Undercover Kentucky Lottery investigation snares three store employees trying to steal prizesNews Story
An undercover operation conducted by the Kentucky Lottery has nabbed three store clerks trying to steal winning tickets. A grand jury in Louisville has handed down indictments against three individuals charged with influencing the winning of a lottery prize through coercion, fraud, deception or tampering with lottery equipment or materials, and a separate charge of providing false information to a lottery investigator. The first charge is a class B felony carrying a possible sentence between
Feb 28, 2019, 3:31 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery celebrates 30 years with new logoNews Story
With the Kentucky Lottery's 30th anniversary occurring in 2019, a new logo that better represents its roots in the Bluegrass State has been unveiled. The lottery is a different organization than we were ten years ago when the last logo was rolled out, and I felt it was time for a redo, said Lottery President and CEO Tom Delacenserie. He said players and the public should see a gradual rollout of the logo over the course of the next year. The new art, developed by Louisville advertising ag
Jan 9, 2019, 2:06 pm - Lottery News