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Iowa lawmakers predict video lottery restrictionsNews Story
The Iowa Legislature won't ban TouchPlay machines, but likely will restrict the spread of the machines, Senate Democratic Leader Michael Gronstal said Thursday. I do not expect that these machines will be completely outlawed and I do not expect the continued expansion will be allowed, Gronstal said. The debate over the video lottery machines has gripped the legislature during the opening month of the session. In 2002, the Legislature approved a measure authorizing the video lottery ma
Feb 24, 2006, 7:20 am - Lottery News

Stores OK with releasing Iowa Lottery TouchPlay dataNews Story
Iowa convenience store operators, whose sales information has been made public for years by the Iowa Lottery, say they won't try to block the release of financial information requested by The Des Moines Register about TouchPlay machines. We don't have a dog in the fight. We don't care, the president of the trade group that represents convenience stores said Thursday. It's always been public. All lottery sales are public information by location. Dawn Carlson of the Petroleum Marketers a
Feb 24, 2006, 7:11 am - Lottery News

Co-workers split lottery mini-jackpotNews Story
Usually, getting a phone call at 1 a.m. can only mean bad news. But it was great news Sunday morning for a group of 20 laboratory employees at Medical Associates in Clinton, Iowa, who learned they will share a $667,142 prize in Saturday's Powerball drawing. One of the group, Carol Fritz, said they have been pooling money and buying Powerball tickets for three years, winning small amounts here and there. With Saturday's Powerball jackpot up to a record $365 million, the group decided to
Feb 21, 2006, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Iowa couple arrested in lottery fraudNews Story
A Waverly, Iowa, couple is facing criminal charges for allegedly cashing counterfeit lottery tickets. Lottery officials allege Scott and Jennifer Brandhorst redeemed the forged TouchPlay tickets at a Hy-Vee store in Cedar Rapids, one for $300 and another for $325. Cedar Rapids police reportedly matched the couple with a surveillance video. Investigators arrested the pair as they were leaving their home at 1868 Dakota Ave. in Waverly on Monday. They were taken to the Linn County Jail. T
Feb 8, 2006, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

Iowa legislators explain controversial lottery issueNews Story
Larger-than-usual audiences met with Iowa legislators Saturday to hear what's going on at the Statehouse and to share their own concerns. About 40 people crowded into the Larson Conference Hall at Muscatine Community College to see state Sens. Tom Courtney and Jim Hahn and Reps. Jeff Kaufmann, Nathan Reichert and Tom Sands. Later, in Wapello, there were 19 area residents visiting with Courtney and Sands. That's twice the usual number who usually gather at the annual forums held in Louisa C
Feb 7, 2006, 9:21 am - Lottery News

Iowans Want TouchPlay Video Lottery MachinesNews Story
A new poll shows most Iowans favor keeping the Lottery's TouchPlay machines.A Des Moines Register Iowa poll shows 41 percent of adults want lawmakers to remove the TouchPlay machines, which closely resemble slot machines, from the 2,600 locations around the state that currently have them.But 26 percent favor making more machines available as long as rules against use by minors are followed.Another 27 percent would permit the TouchPlay games already in place, but prohibit installation of more mac
Jan 30, 2006, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery orders moratorium on machinesNews Story
Iowa Lottery President Edward Stanek, responding to a controversy over an expansion of the state's gambling industry, today ordered a limited moratorium on the installation of TouchPlay lottery machines, which closely resemble slot machines.About 4,600 TouchPlay machines have been already installed at 2,500 locations in Iowa taverns, covenience and other retail sites.Stanek's order permits additional machines perhaps totaling in the thousands that have already been ordered by businesses to b
Jan 10, 2006, 11:12 am - Lottery News

Iowa Powerball lottery winner recently filed for bankruptcyNews Story
Call it the miracle on 34th Street. When Hugh Allen Hawkins filed for bankruptcy last summer, he and his wife had $250 in cash left in bank accounts and $87,000 in credit card debt. And now today we have a big pile of money, he said Tuesday after an Iowa Lottery official handed him a check for $113.2 million, the largest prize ever won in the state.Hawkins, owner of a modest home on 34th Street in Des Moines, is the mystery winner of the Dec. 14 Powerball jackpot. His 19-day silence prompted p
Jan 4, 2006, 7:06 am - Lottery News

Iowa man comes forward with $113M Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
The unidentified Beaverdale resident didn't know until Saturday that he won the Powerball jackpot.There's one house in Beaverdale, Iowa that might get a flyover from Santa Claus this year.An unidentified man from the Des Moines neighborhood stepped forward Saturday with the winning $113.2 million Powerball ticket from Wednesday's drawing.Kurt Harris, manager of the Dahl's Food Mart at 1819 Beaver Ave. where the ticket was sold, said the man, one of our good customers who lives nearby, came in
Dec 19, 2005, 7:06 am - Lottery News

$113 million Powerball winner may be a regular playerNews Story
The identity of the buyer of the largest winning Powerball ticket in Iowa history is still a mystery. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says they know one of the 609 Powerball tickets sold at a northwest Des Moines Dahl's supermarket won the $113 million jackpot.Neubauer says there is one other clue about the winner. Neubauer says it appears the winner personally chose the six winning numbers which might indicate the person plays the game regularly. She says the person has 365 days to cla
Dec 16, 2005, 8:39 am - Lottery News