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Arizona Lottery to begin new branding campaignNews Story
Tim Burton-like Technique Breathes 'Life' into Lottery Tickets, Coins and Other Objects, Captures Consumer Experience Riester Robb, the full-service advertising and public relations firm for the Arizona Lottery, will dramatically change the way consumers look at their Scratchers tickets and other familiar objects. A new stop-action animation television campaign transforms unexpected items into characters engaged in surprising behavior and captures the suspense of playing Scratchers. St
Apr 25, 2006, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Arizona man's lottery ticket wins on every lineNews Story
Everyone dreams of purchasing a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers, but what about a $5 ticket that has winning numbers on each and every line including one with the winning jackpot numbers? About three months ago, Louis Cooper, Tucson, began playing the Arizona Lottery again, after a brief hiatus, using some special numbers he liked and some suggested by a friend, who just happens to be a psychic. This friend also gave him a lucky stone that he wears around his neck. Louis' fiv
Apr 11, 2006, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Arizona man proposes lottery to increase voter turnoutNews Story
Cast a vote, win a million. If an Arizona man has his way, every person who votes in his state will automatically have his or her name entered in a in draw to win $1 million. Mark Osterloh, an Arizona physician and attorney, is proposing a state law that would act as an incentive to increase voter turnout. The long-time advocate of electoral policy reform says the idea is a variation on a highly successful law in Australia, under which citizens who fail to vote are fined. Such a penal
Apr 9, 2006, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery tracks down real winner after ticket stolenNews Story
Arizona Lottery officials have tracked down the owner of a winning $1.4 million lottery ticket authorities said was fleeced by a convenience-store clerk.Officials confirmed that Cuauht moc Jose Luis Casta eda-Y nez of Nogales, Sonora, purchased the Pick winning ticket for the June 25 drawing.It's unclear when Casta eda-Y nez will receive the winnings, but the Attorney General's Office on Thursday submitted a forfeiture order in Maricopa County Superior Court to return the money to him.Authoritie
Nov 11, 2005, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Gullible woman bilked out of $100K in lottery scamNews Story
A Tucson, Arizona, woman who said she was playing a free Internet lottery game was bilked out of nearly $100,000, according to sheriff's officials.The woman contacted the Sheriff's Department on Oct. 20 and told deputies about the lottery game called Universal Swiss Lottery, which she said she had been playing on the Internet. The game required no money to play.In March 2004, the woman said, she was contacted and told that she had won 2 million euros, according to the Sheriff's Department, which
Nov 3, 2005, 1:18 pm - Lottery News

Store clerk accused of stealing $1M lottery ticketNews Story
A Circle K clerk in Nogales, Arizona is accused of stealing a lottery ticket and then collecting the $1 million winnings.The Attorney General's Office says the ticket was one of several that a man had brought in to the clerk's store to check to see if he had won anything.Authorities allege that clerk Delia Kerr returned the other tickets to the man, but kept the jackpot-winning The Pick ticket.The man didn't know he had won the jackpot, but complained to the store manager that one of his ticke
Aug 18, 2005, 5:03 pm - Lottery News

Arizona couple won a lotta lottery griefNews Story
In Snowflake, Ariz., between the White Mountains and the Petrified Forest, 16 hectares of tomatoes grow under massive greenhouses -- the dream and downfall of one of Ontario's largest lottery winners. Parkhill mechanic Bernie Nauss won $22.5 million in 1998. But it only took him and his wife, Krista, a few years to lose one-third of their fortune trying to grow hydroponic tomatoes.The town of Snowflake, 310 kilometers northeast of Phoenix, wasn't named for its climate: In the dead of winter dayt
Feb 22, 2005, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Lottery-winning sisters to donate sizable portionNews Story
$11.3 million jackpot to benefit treatment center, build sheltersJust a month ago, they were two struggling, underpaid single mothers wondering how their outpatient alcohol- and drug-treatment center was going to meet its next payroll.Then, sisters Christine McCoy and Ursula Pixie Baker bought the winning ticket in an $11.3 million The Pick jackpot.But there's no retiring to some island paradise for these two hard-core social workers.In fact, McCoy, 50, and Baker, 58, are planning to use a siz
Oct 27, 2004, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery has record salesNews Story
Arizonans pursuing quick riches bought a record $366.6 million in Lottery tickets in the year that ended June 30, a nearly 14 percent gain over the previous 12 months.From those sales, a record $107.8 million was distributed to eight state funds that aid everything from parks to mass transportation and abused children.Arizona's percentage increase was the highest among Western states with similar gambling environments, according to Lottery officials. Lottery sales in California, which also has I
Aug 26, 2004, 7:43 am - Lottery News

Arizon Lottery increases sales 12% this yearNews Story
People like Bob Haney of Buckeye are helping the Arizona Lottery ring up big sales this fiscal year - sales that were running 12.2 percent ahead of the previous fiscal year through three quarters.Haney's not a big player, but a regular one hoping for that big hit on his favorite game. If you don't play, they can't pay, he said after buying tickets Friday at the Lottery's main office in Phoenix. Just like the (slot machines) or something, you never know what's going to turn up. For the Lotter
May 24, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News