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Arkansas Lottery announces 'points for prizes' rewards programNews Story
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is adding even more value to instant lottery tickets with a new program called Points for Prizes. In the new program, players earn points by going to the lottery's website and entering their non-winning instant tickets. These points can then be redeemed for exciting merchandise. The Play It Again second-chance drawing program began with the Lottery on September 28, 2009. Since then, more than 100,000 players have registered for an online player services acc
Jan 19, 2010, 1:06 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery drawings moving from TV to InternetNews Story
Beginning today, Virginia Lottery drawings will move to the Internet. The daily draw shows and twice-a-week Win For Life drawings that were held on TV now will be available online only, according to the lottery's Web site. The final TV drawing was held on Saturday. The Mega Millions drawings will continue to be televised on Tuesdays and Fridays, the notice says. The move is a cost-saving measure, according to the site. The lottery had paid TV stations to air the drawings. Lottery off
Jan 11, 2010, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Iowa lottery offering bonus holiday drawingNews Story
Officials with the Iowa Lottery say those playing holiday scratch-off games shouldn't throw away their tickets if they lose. Terry Rich, the chief executive of the Iowa Lottery, says for the first time this year, holiday tickets that aren't winners are eligible for other prizes. Rich says players can enter the ticket serial number online to play a bonus game. The lottery is calling the promotion Tech the Halls and Rich says electronics and cash prizes are available. Players can enter th
Dec 28, 2009, 11:12 am - Lottery News

$50 lottery game remains popularNews Story
The sour economy isn't stopping some big-spending Texans from plopping down $50 for a single lottery ticket. Texas was the first state to offer a $50 scratch-off game, and they remain a big hit, according to Robert Heith, director of media relations for the Texas Lottery Commission. The motivation to launch a higher-priced game was to help generate money for cash-strapped programs such as education which receives a large portion of funds collected. Scratch-off games have steadily increa
Dec 21, 2009, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery begins Cash 3 gameNews Story
A new way to play the lottery in Arkansas debuted yesterday. Lottery retailers can now sell tickets for Cash 3, a game that allows players to pick three numbers in hopes of matching them to numbers selected by a random number generator at the lottery's headquarters in Little Rock. The game is the lottery's first in-state draw game. The multi-state Powerball game, which holds drawings in Orlando, Fla., launched in Arkansas on Oct. 31. A second in-state draw game, Cash 4, is expected to l
Dec 15, 2009, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery sales hurt by lagging economyNews Story
Lottery ticket sales declined about $11.3 million in the past fiscal year, mainly because of a downturn in the economy, Oklahoma officials said. Powerball sales, which make up the majority of lottery sales, tumbled an estimated $7.6 million, partly because of the economy and a lack of significant jackpots, Jim Scroggins, executive director of the Oklahoma Lottery Commission, said Tuesday. The Oklahoma Lottery is expected to contribute $66.7 million to public education for the 2010 fiscal y
Dec 11, 2009, 9:33 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery honors 'Clinic Gals'News Story
The Clinic Gals of Dexter, Missouri, have been named the December Lottery Team of the Month, earning the group of Powerball-playing co-workers and friends a prize package of Lottery merchandise. The Clinic Gals work together in a doctor's office in Dexter and have been playing Powerball together for more than two years. According to team captain Sherry Medler, a transcriptionist from Dexter, the team formed after one of the nurses who played regularly asked if anyone wanted to join her.
Dec 2, 2009, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Louisiana Lottery reports $7.6M in October lotto prizesNews Story
Traveling to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, making upgrades to a recently purchased property and repairing a pick-up truck are just some of the ways winners of the Louisiana Lottery's scratch-off games plan to spend the more than $6 million claimed in October. The Lottery also reported more than $7.6 million in winning tickets won on draw-style game tickets last month. October's draw-style game winnings included one Easy 5 jackpot of $117,823, one match-5 Powerball with Power Play prize of $
Nov 17, 2009, 9:09 am - Lottery News

Multi-state lottery shockwave sweeping AmericaNews Story
Lottery Post Exclusive By Todd Northrop Updated: Nov. 6, 2009, 11:28 a.m. Updated: Nov. 10, 2009, 11:21 p.m. In January 2010 the state lines that have been dividing the United States into Powerball states and Mega Millions states will be blurred by a cross-selling arrangement between the two multi-state lottery titans. But it was not an arrangement the country's biggest lotto games entered into easily or even willingly. The lines of division between America's two biggest multi
Nov 5, 2009, 2:27 pm - Lottery News

First day of Arkansas lottery sales brisk, sellers sayNews Story
By midmorning Monday, Arkansas' new lottery had produced a $500 winner in Baxter County from a scratch-off ticket sold at Benny's Country Store, 6227 State Hwy. 5 N., and an unknown amount for college scholarships. Several retailers who sell lottery tickets here reported brisk and sometimes crazy ticket sales Monday the first day of the state's new lottery with proceeds dedicated for college scholarships. Drew Long, owner of Benny's Country Store, said a customer purchased the $500-winning
Sep 29, 2009, 7:49 am - Lottery News