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N.J. lawmaker wants to expand lottery reach, salesNews Story
Targets Internet sales, mobile phones, and 'big box' stores Saying it would generate more cash for the state, New Jersey Senate President Richard Codey will push a plan to expand the New Jersey Lottery by selling tickets at big box stores such as Home Depot or Target, adding internet sales and even allowing people to play the games with their cell phones. Codey (D-Essex) said the Lottery has untapped potential that can help ease New Jersey's fiscal woes over the next decade. He said he bel
Apr 8, 2008, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery forced to publicize internal probe into 'insider win'News Story
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has violated the public trust and can't justify hiding documents about its internal probe into a $21.5 million win by a Cambridge convenience store owner, the province's privacy commission has ruled. The lottery corporation has until May 9 to release documents related to the probe under a Freedom of Information request filed and appealed by the CBC, assistant commissioner Brian Beamish ruled Friday. The public must remain vigilant. This information is
Apr 8, 2008, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery requires winners to sign ticketsNews Story
On the heels of a similar announcement from the Ontario Lottery, the Iowa Lottery has imposed a new rule aimed at reducing the possibility of retailer fraud. Starting March 15, 2008, Iowa retailers will only be able to check and cash lottery tickets if they have first been signed by the ticketholder. The lottery also reinforced that players are responsible for the accuracy of their tickets before leaving the store, and for determining if their ticket is a winner. Under current rules, re
Mar 10, 2008, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot hits $200 millionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing $200 million has once again grown large enough to draw new or infrequent players to ticket counters. The most popular lottery games are normally the $1 and $5 games that offer chances at prizes ranging from a few bucks to $1 million. Those are the heavy hitters for most state lotteries, generating as much as half of total sales. The customers start to change, though, when the multi-state Powerball game starts touting jackpots approaching $20
Mar 7, 2008, 9:15 am - Lottery News

New Florida Lotto playslips a bother to someNews Story
Some players annoyed by re-writing slips used 'for years'; don't understand new jackpot options As the Florida Lottery made changes to its Lotto game, a Lauderhill woman claimed the $3 million jackpot from the March 1 game. Melony Gregory, of Lauderhill, chose the one-time, lump-sum payment, and will receive $1,711,642 after taxes. Meanwhile, Lotto players faced a slightly longer wait to purchase tickets for Wednesday night's drawing, the first since the Florida Lottery made changes to
Mar 6, 2008, 11:35 am - Lottery News

Small N.Y. store sells lots of winning lottery ticketsNews Story
It's called Broadway News, but the Money Store might be a better name. New York State Lottery money falls like thousand-dollar bills from heaven at the newsstand at 352 Broadway in Newburgh. Since 2002, 154 people have won $1,000 or more at the store. That's nearly twice as many as the next store with the most winners in Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, a Sunday Record analysis found. The Quick Mart at 515 Broadway sells nearly as many tickets but had just 81 winners in the same time.
Mar 3, 2008, 9:32 am - Lottery News

Ontario store employee charged with stealing lottery prizesNews Story
New prize redemption rules aimed at reducing theft A former convenience store employee in North Bay, Ontario, is facing theft and fraud charges for allegedly redeeming two customers' scratch-and-win lottery tickets. Sgt. Chris Williams of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario's Investigation and Support Bureau says these are the first such charges the unit has laid since its inception Jan. 1. The unit, comprised of provincial police officers, investigates claims of insider lotter
Feb 27, 2008, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Pair arrested for stealing lottery tickets for 3 yearsNews Story
Claimed $187,000 in winnings from stolen scratch-offs A clerk at Local Yokel food mart has been arrested for stealing Florida Lottery scratch-off tickets and raking in $187,000 in winnings. Michelle Joan Despain, 35, of Daphne, Ala., is accused of stealing books of tickets and claiming them in Escambia County and in Orlando during a family vacation, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office. The tickets she stole would have sold for more than $243,000. Despain's husband,
Feb 8, 2008, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery adds signature requirement for claiming prizesNews Story
Starting this week, retailers are not allowed to validate Ontario lottery tickets unless customers sign them on the front. Players are also asked to sign the back of Instant Win tickets until a new signature box is added to the front in the coming months. The signature requirement is the second new measure added by the Ontario Lottery Corp. in as many weeks to improve security. New musical chimes and voice alerts took effect Jan. 22 at all lottery terminals to help inform players of the
Jan 30, 2008, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Winner of New York's biggest lottery jackpot sold himself the ticketNews Story
A Manhattan deli clerk may have sliced his last salami after selling himself the winning ticket to the biggest scratch-off lottery jackpot in state history. Waleed Alsaidi, 22, will take home $10,000 per week for the rest of his life about $6,450 after taxes are withheld after getting lucky in the New York Lottery's Win for Life Spectacular game. The Yemen native said that he bought the ticket as a present to himself while working the lonely late shift on New Year's Eve at his fa
Jan 18, 2008, 7:54 pm - Lottery News