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Delaware legalizes sports bettingNews Story
Table games are next; Maryland lawmakers worried Standing in front a screen displaying lines for the NFL, NBA and MLB, Gov. Jack Markell Thursday signed a sports betting bill into law at a ceremony inside the VIP room at Delaware Park racetrack and casino. After signing the legislation Markell said his administration looks forward to working with the state's three racinos to make the Delaware sports lottery as successful as possible. There is tremendous interest in the sports lottery t
May 15, 2009, 8:45 am - Lottery News

'Team effort' leads to winning lottery ticketNews Story
Adam and Mandy Clark discovered they had an unplanned $350,000 tax bill on April 15, and they're thrilled. That's because they get to keep the other $650,000 from the $1 million winning lottery ticket they purchased on Tax Day at the Ole's Country Store in East Missoula. The couple validated their ticket in Helena on Friday morning. We're excited to get our first home and put some money aside for our daughter's college, and some for retirement, Adam said on the phone from the Montana Lott
Apr 26, 2009, 12:14 pm - Lottery News

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

Idaho woman hits fifth lottery jackpot in five yearsNews Story
Some people dream of winning the Lottery at least once. But for one Caldwell, Idaho, woman, winning the Lottery over the past five years has become common place. Anna Pearl Rowell could be considered the luckiest Lottery Lady of all time. Rowell claimed her $110,000 winning Wild Card check Friday morning from the Idaho Lottery and then retired from her position as the office manager for the Canyon County Assessor's Office. Rowell became the third Wild Card jackpot winner from Idaho in
Nov 16, 2007, 5:17 pm - Lottery News

Is the lottery shortchanging schools?News Story
According to the North American Assoc. of State and Provincial Lotteries, 42 states and the District of Columbia run lotteries, and more than half claim the games boost funding for education. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian found that lotteries aren't exactly providing a windfall for schools. If you listen to state lottery ads, we're supposed to believe that all the numbers are supposedly adding up to more and more money for education. Lotteries help, but n
Sep 19, 2007, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Single winner in $314M Powerball lottery drawingNews Story
There is a winner. Powerball lottery officials say one winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's $314 million jackpot. It was purchased in Indiana. The pot had grown so huge because there had not been a big winner in any of the drawings since late June. Also winning big in the drawing were 36 lucky players who matched the first 5 numbers for a second prize win of $200,000. Winners of the second prize were from the following states: 2 from Arizona, 2 from Connecticut, 3 from W
Aug 26, 2007, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot crosses $300 million boundaryNews Story
The Powerball lottery jackpot for next Saturday will be worth an incredible $300 Million. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off in big ways. Two lucky tickets in Montana and North Carolina won $800,000 cash with the Power Play option. In addition, twelve tickets purchased in Arizona (4), Colorado (1), Idaho (1), North Carolina (3), Pennsylvania (2), and West Virginia (1) each won $200,000 for matching all 5 white numbers. The jackpot for the Satu
Aug 24, 2007, 1:47 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery approves raffle, ends game, and hires new vendorNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery's board of directors was busy yesterday, approving a new raffle-style game for later this year, canceling the unique 4 this way 4-digit game, and ending an 11-year relationship with its current equipment and services vendor. Finishing a two-year process to analyze its business needs, identify revenue growth opportunities and evaluate vendor capabilities, the New Mexico Lottery yesterday selected Intralot to provide a computerized gaming system, communications network
Jul 27, 2007, 8:22 pm - Lottery News

Kansas woman wins $12.9 million Hot Lotto jackpotNews Story
When Lori Boyle stopped Wednesday to get gas and check on a lottery ticket, she had no idea she would walk out of the store a multimillionaire. The 42-year-old mother of two daughters, ages 19 and 13, had bought the Hot Lotto ticket July 4 in her hometown of Independence, but had kept the ticket in her purse without realizing the $12.9 million jackpot had been hit in Kansas. I'm too busy to watch television much and I usually only look at the newspaper to see who died and who had a baby,
Jul 11, 2007, 9:17 pm - Lottery News

Nationwide, lotteries pay for far more than educationNews Story
Martha Keller is a 78-year-old resident of Altoona, Pa., who frequently takes the bus from her apartment on Walnut Avenue to her doctor's office or the local senior center. Chandni Amin is a 19-year-old nursing student at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Keller and Amin have little in common save for one thing both are benefiting directly from money raised by state lotteries. Lotteries help pay for everything from education to economic development, buses to baseball stadiums. In Penn
Jan 31, 2007, 12:06 am - Lottery News