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Kansas Lottery raffle winner claims prize within minutes of drawing!News Story
State employee purchased number of tickets in a wide distribution area A woman from Topeka who works for the state of Kansas had her holiday dream fulfilled Thursday when she discovered she had the winning ticket in the Kansas Lottery's $1 million Holiday Millionaire Raffle. The woman, whose identity wasn't released, will take home $700,000 after 30 percent of the winnings is withheld for state and federal taxes, said Sally Lunsford, director of communications for the Kansas Lottery. Kansa
Dec 30, 2010, 5:00 pm - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery draws state's holiday raffleNews Story
State's second-ever raffle creates millionaire By Todd Northrop The Kansas Lottery held its second holiday raffle drawing today, creating one millionaire and several more happy, lucky lottery winners. The winning numbers for Kansas Holiday Millionaire Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's Kansas Lottery Results page. Holiday Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game offered by the Kansas Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 150,000 tickets sold for the raffle,
Dec 30, 2010, 4:26 pm - Lottery News

New lottery game marks Kansas' 150th birthdayNews Story
The state's anti-gambling founders probably wouldn't have approved, but Kansas unveiled a new lottery game Friday to get a jump on celebrating its 150th birthday. The top prize for Celebrating Our Statehood is $1,500, but state officials hope it reaps big benefits for the Kansas Sesquicentennial by generating public awareness that events are coming, tied to next year's Jan. 29 anniversary. The lottery began distributing 600,000 tickets Wednesday and expects 1,600 retailers to begin selling
Sep 3, 2010, 8:39 pm - Lottery News

States go all in, expand gaming to plug the budgetNews Story
Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in. States are adamant that they don't want to take advantage of anyone, but with budgets in free-fall and tax increases a losing hand politically, lawmakers acknowledge they are dependent on gambling dollars. At least 18 states this year are looking to expand games of chance because of a drop-off of anywhere from 5 to 14 p
Mar 15, 2010, 9:24 pm - Lottery News

Kansas House proposal would create tax on lottery ticketsNews Story
If passed, would exclude state from Powerball, Mega Millions games A proposal to raise taxes on utility bills, lottery tickets and churches is heading toward a vote in the Kansas House. The legislation is the latest attempt to tackle the state's growing budget deficit without more cuts to schools and other state programs. The proposal, which was forwarded to the House on Tuesday, would impose the 5.3 percent state sales tax on all electric, gas and water bills. The bill would repeal an
Mar 3, 2010, 10:03 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery raffle drawing is state's firstNews Story
The Kansas Lottery held its first-ever raffle drawing today, creating one millionaire and several more happy, lucky lottery winners. The winning numbers for Kansas Holiday Millionaire Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's Kansas Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/ks). Holiday Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game offered by the Kansas Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 150,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Holiday Millionaire Raffle offers the bes
Dec 31, 2009, 4:01 pm - Lottery News

Kansas man claims state's largest Powerball lottery jackpot one day after winningNews Story
Checks ticket, claims $96.6M jackpot... then tells wife Donald Damon, 70, a lifelong resident of Great Bend, Kansas, Friday claimed the largest Powerball jackpot ever won in the state just one day after the drawing. Damon was the sole winner of the $96.6 million Powerball jackpot drawn on Wednesday evening, Nov. 11. He was introduced to the public Friday in a news conference that was held at Lottery headquarters in Topeka. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday were 8, 12, 14, 22, and 29,
Nov 14, 2009, 10:05 am - Lottery News

Convicted embezzler to forfeit Kansas Lottery prizeNews Story
Paul W. Lyle learned that he won the grand prize in a Kansas Lottery second-chance drawing at his preliminary hearing 11 days ago. Trouble was: The former radio executive was facing a charge of felony theft for embezzling a reported $87,750 from his employer, American Media Investments, which owns three radio stations in Pittsburg, five in Joplin, Mo., and five more in Texas. The supreme irony: Lyle, 63, the company's chief operating officer until the theft was discovered in May, confessed th
Oct 3, 2009, 11:36 am - Lottery News

Computerized lottery drawings not problem-freeNews Story
MUSL director Strutt says Small group of players don't like them Passailaigue says players superstitious, spooked by changes in draw format Arkansas lottery officials say their decision to use a computer to generate winning numbers when lottery games start this fall makes economic sense, but the use of computerized drawings by lotteries in other states has not been free of problems. In July 2007, the Tennessee Education Lottery moved to save costs by doing away with its televised drawi
Aug 10, 2009, 9:22 am - Lottery News

Kansas man wins big in lottery for 2nd time in '09News Story
Edward Williams is the definition of lucky after winning the lottery for a second time in a year. Williams, 47, of Wichita won $75,000 in September playing a $10 scratch ticket. Then on Wednesday, he defied the odds again when matched all the numbers in the Super Kansas Cash drawing to win a jackpot worth nearly $900,000. When I hit $75,000, I figured lighting struck once, it won't ever hit again, Williams said in a prepared statement released by Kansas Lottery officials. This one knocked me
Aug 9, 2009, 10:40 pm - Lottery News