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Winning numbers chosen in Delaware Lottery's RaffleNews Story
The winning numbers for the Delaware Lottery's third annual Raffle game were selected in a special drawing today. The winning number for the $250,000 grand prize is 00012370. The five winning numbers for the $25,000 prizes are 00006502, 00018933, 00043080, 00071835, and 00075141. There were 250 winning numbers that paid $500 apiece as well. The full list of winning numbers can be seen on Lottery Post's Delaware Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/de). The 100,000 tickets s
Dec 31, 2008, 6:22 pm - Lottery News

New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Delaware Lottery publishes winner pictures -- sort ofNews Story
The Delaware Lottery takes pride in their privacy policy, only publishing winner names with their consent. To make the point, while still showing a real winner behind the story, the lottery takes the winners' pictures, but has each winner hold up a mask over their face. With a busy month of August, including sixteen people winning prizes of $10,000 or more, the Delaware Lottery has a lot of anonymous pictures to take. The result is a collage that could make even the stodgiest of us chuckle
Sep 6, 2007, 11:49 am - Lottery News

First Ca$hola jackpot win in DelawareNews Story
A Dover woman won $318,770 on a penny slot machine at Dover Downs Hotel Casino. Ingrid Karas won the jackpot Tuesday on the multistate game Ca$hola. It was the first Ca$hola win in Delaware and the second-highest jackpot at the casino, according to a news release from Dover Downs. The game also is played in Rhode Island and West Virginia. Karas, a retired telephone operator, moved to Delaware from Long Island, N.Y, four years ago. Former Ohio schoolteacher becomes Ca$hola millio
Jul 12, 2007, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Widow recounts slaying of CT Lottery chief in new bookNews Story
Delaware native Denise Brown has always enjoyed writing, but becoming a published author has been a bittersweet journey for the 47-year-old. Although she's glad that her memoir, The Unspeakable, is available to readers, she would've preferred that there had never been a need to write it. That's because her memoir, released last month by the University of Delaware Press, is about the minutes, hours, days and years following the violent death of her husband, Otho R. Ott Brown in 1998.
Feb 13, 2007, 10:42 am - Lottery News

Video gambling a cash cow even for smaller statesNews Story
Surveying West Virginia's rural neighborhoods, where most people lack broadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is a lottery cash cow. That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers. There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzing and blinking video lottery terminals the reason this small state, with one of the country's lowest per-capita incomes is home to one of the most lucrative lotteries in the natio
Jan 30, 2007, 8:09 pm - Lottery News

Winning numbers chosen in Delaware Lottery's first raffleNews Story
The winning numbers for the Delaware Lottery's first-ever raffle were selected yesterday, Dec. 31, 2006. The winning number for the $250,000 grand prize is 00036224. The five winning numbers for the $25,000 prizes are 00029012, 00059271, 00066514, 00066667 and 00095829. There were 250 winning numbers that paid $500 apiece as well. The full list of winning numbers can be seen at: https://www.lotterypost.com/de-lottery-raffle-2006.asp The 100,000 tickets sold for the raffle cost $10 e
Jan 1, 2007, 4:09 pm - Lottery News

Most state lottery raffle games sold outNews Story
Around the United States, Christmastime raffle games have become the hottest ticket of the year, with most of the game tickets selling out well before the drawing date. The raffle games are loosely modeled after the largest lottery game in the world, Spain's El Gordo, which gives back an unusually large 70% of all proceeds in the form of prizes, and makes many instant millionaires. Unlike traditional lotto-style games, a fixed number of tickets are sold for raffle games, and the prizes are
Dec 30, 2006, 12:18 am - Lottery News

First Ever Multi-State Video Lottery Game Up and RunningNews Story
Jackpot Over $540,000 and Growing The lotteries of Delaware, Rhode Island, and West Virginia have begun operation of America's first multi-state video lottery game. Ca$hola (pronounced cash-O-lah) features a shared prize pool that will create the progressive jackpot game for players in all three states; a jackpot that currently has an annuity value of over $540,000 and grows until won. Sales of the Ca$hola game have begun at video lottery terminals (VLT's) located at tracks in the thr
Jul 26, 2006, 5:23 pm - Lottery News

Man appeals dismissal of lottery lawsuitNews Story
Robert W. Palese isn't folding just yet. The 49-year-old Bear resident filed an appeal in Delaware Supreme Court last week challenging a judge's decision to dismiss his claim that he was entitled to a $5 million lottery prize even though he lost the winning ticket in a laundry mishap. Last month, Chancery Court Vice Chancellor John W. Noble said Palese didn't have a claim because he no longer had the wining ticket. He was disappointed at the decision, said Palese's attorney, Patrick J
Jul 25, 2006, 7:43 am - Lottery News