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Texas Lottery drawings supervisor receives top industry awardNews Story
By Kate Northrop The Texas Lottery announced Thursday that its drawings supervisor, who helped lead her team to design the first in-house draw studio, was presented with a top industry award for her significant contributions to the lottery through her exceptional job performance. Conchita Daniel, who is responsible for pioneering optimal traditional draw practices in the industry, received the 2021 Powers Award at the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) dig
Oct 8, 2021, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

Results are in: Kentucky Lottery ranked best place to work in KentuckyNews Story
By Kate Northrop On Wednesday, the Kentucky Lottery announced that it was named the best place to work in the state by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management. In March, the unranked list of companies who made the cut for 2021 was released, but the official ranked list was announced last week at the 17th Annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky awards ceremony held in Lexington. The Kentucky Lottery was ranked the Best Place to Work in K
Jun 24, 2021, 1:35 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery wins International Gaming-Compliance award for work in lottery rigging investigationNews Story
Long-running case culminated in 2017 guilty pleas from three men The Iowa Lottery has won an international gaming-compliance award for its work in the long-running lottery jackpot investigation that uncovered fraud against U.S. lotteries and resulted in guilty pleas from three men. GamblingCompliance on Wednesday named the Iowa Lottery its 2018 recipient for outstanding achievement in compliance. The organization's annual awards that recognize excellence in 11 categories focused on regulat
Apr 19, 2018, 10:29 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery CEO gets award named after herNews Story
The president and CEO of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. is being recognized by a leading lottery trade organization with an award named after her. According to the lottery, the Rebecca Hargrove Award for Mentorship is given in recognition of an individual's generous spirit that supports the wise and responsible development of the next generation of lottery industry leaders. Hargrove also is the first recipient of the award from the Public Gaming Research Institute. Institute CEO
Dec 31, 2013, 9:10 am - Lottery News

Lottery Post member receives Distinguished Service AwardNews Story
GoArmy earns highest-level civilian decoration for saving a woman and two children Two Sailors and one civilian received the Distinguished Service Award during a ceremony held in the Bop Hope Theater at Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar Oct. 2. For Lottery Post members, it is a special moment of pride, as one of their own earned the highest-level civilian distinction. Electronics Technician 1st Class (SW) Verlon Cox, who goes by the member name GoArmy at Lottery Post, Mineman 1st Cl
Oct 16, 2007, 3:18 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery fetches prize with 'Lucky Dog' gameNews Story
Scratch-off ticket wins honors as best new game; school aid fund shattered records this year. The Michigan Lottery's decision earlier this year to go to the dogs has earned it a coveted prize of its own. Michigan's Lucky Dog scratch-off ticket was named the best new instant game of the year by the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, which includes 52 lotteries in the United States, Canada and Mexico. More than 2,350 instant games were in the running for the awar
Oct 18, 2006, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Reporter honored for lottery coverageNews Story
Steve Geissinger, the Sacramento bureau chief for ANG Newspapers, received a national award Friday night from the Association of Capital Reporters and Editors for coverage of California's controversial entrance into the multi-state Mega Millions lottery. Geissinger won third place. The association is composed of journalists from the capitals of all 50 states. Early last year Geissinger began writing more than two dozen lottery stories, which also appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News and
Aug 7, 2006, 11:38 am - Lottery News