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S.C. man sentenced for lottery ticket theftNews Story
A Ridgeland, South Carolina man was sentenced to time served, restitution and three years of probation in Beaufort County General Sessions Court Monday after pleading guilty to 12 charges of trying to cash stolen lottery tickets, court records state.Albert Garvin, 37, was arrested last December on charges that he tried to cash the stolen lottery tickets at Publix on Pembroke Drive and the Shell gas station at the intersection of William Hilton Parkway and Spanish Wells Road, the Beaufort County
Sep 2, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Three tickets split $100 million California lottery jackpotNews Story
California Lottery officials announced Sunday that two of the three winning tickets in Saturday's $100 million Super Lotto Plus jackpot were purchased in the Bay Area. One of the three tickets, each now worth $33.3 million, was purchased in Los Altos at JP Liquors, lottery spokeswoman Rosa Escutia said today. A second ticket was purchased at Pal Liquors in Sausalito. The third winning ticket was purchased at Calva Dairy in Huntington Beach, Escutia said. None of the big winners in the s
Aug 31, 2004, 8:48 am - Lottery News

Lottery petition attacks computerized drawingsNews Story
A popular lottery Internet Web site is opposing a controversial industry trend head-on, in an attempt to eliminate computer-generated drawings from all US lottery games.Among the 41 states and the District of Columbia offering lottery games to the public, there are approximately 175 different lottery games. In almost every one of those games the player selects three or more numbers, and those numbers are compared against numbers randomly selected by the state lottery to determine who is the win
Aug 29, 2004, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Atlantic Lottery Corporation starts online ticket salesNews Story
The online cash has started flowing for the Atlantic Lottery Corporation.It has pioneered a controversial website that sells lottery tickets on the Internet.The service went online Tuesday and by lunch time over 100 customers had wagered on games.The move has made it the first publicly-owned agency to sell virtual lottery tickets in Canada.Darlene Doucet, an Atlantic Lottery spokeswoman, says the corporation is particularly interested in people who already bank, make purchases and seek entertain
Aug 26, 2004, 7:29 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Numbers Drawing SuspicionsNews Story
The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.Yesterday, 5048 was the winning Big 4 number, as seen on Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Results Page. On Saturday, 8504 was the winning number, and 5408 hit on Friday.Also, 4508 hit in the Aug. 9 midday Big 4 drawing.The odds of any one four-digit number hitting on a given day are 1-in-10,000. Someone who regularly plays a boxed ticket -- that is, uses the same four digits, but rearranges them t
Aug 24, 2004, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Maine Powerball sales strongNews Story
In a little less than 34 hours, Mainers gobbled up $536,191 worth of Powerball tickets to propel the state into the top three markets in the country for the game's Saturday night drawing.Pam Coutts, executive director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, said Monday that total sales for the new Powerball lottery game were actually $570,779, including tickets purchased for future drawings beyond Saturday's game. The huge response to the multimillion-dollar lottery game dis
Aug 3, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Illinois man claims $8 million lottery jackpotNews Story
He apparently took his time about it, but the owner of a winning $8 million Lotto ticket purchased the week of June 16 at a Sunset Avenue convenience store presented himself and his valuable ticket to Illinois Lottery officials earlier this month.Lottery spokesman Courtney Hill said Thursday that 58-year-old Jose Angulo Leon of Waukegan was awarded a check for $8 million, minus the taxman's take, after bringing the winning ducat to one of the state's Check Writing Centers for verification. We we
Jul 30, 2004, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Missouri shuts down illegal lottery Web siteNews Story
A young man from Festus, Missouri set up his own online lottery and named it after a TV show. He called his Web site pimpmyride.com. Pimp My Ride is a show on MTV. There's no connection between the show and the lottery.The lottery Web site invited people to enter the contest for a $2 fee. The winner of a random drawing was to get $20,000 to customize, or pimp out, their vehicle.The site drew entries from across the country. Some people entered as many as 100 times.According to court record
Jul 29, 2004, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Ignites Controversy with Computerized DrawingsNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveFalling in lockstep with a controversial industry trend, the Missouri Lottery decided to change its lottery drawings from mechanical lottery ball machines to a random number generator computer system.Opponents of the computerized drawings say that computers cannot achieve the true randomness of a physical drawing mechanism, mainly due to computers' inherent non-random properties.In addition, with computer hacking, viruses, and tampering on the rise, concerned citizens worry
Jul 21, 2004, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Lottery foul-ups rare but expensiveNews Story
Lottery mistakes don't happen often, but when they do they're costly resulting in multiple awards or increases in the prize money.Here are some lottery foul-ups from across the country in recent years: Earlier this month, a missing nine ball in a drawing machine led the New Hampshire lottery to honor two winning numbers. It was the second double payout resulting from missing balls in the state's lottery drawing machines this year. In April, the Wisconsin lottery posted an incorrect winning num
Jul 19, 2004, 8:20 am - Lottery News