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Maryland Lottery machine glitches frustrate playersNews Story
New system suffers long breakdowns, customers complain A new lottery sales system being installed at thousands of convenience, liquor and grocery stores statewide has experienced breakdowns of up to several hours at a time this week, Maryland Lottery officials said Friday. Store owners and avid players in search of their daily numbers were frustrated and furious. Customers have let store owners hear their displeasure especially those who can't play the popular Keno game. You should s
Jun 5, 2006, 7:12 am - Lottery News

Pick 4 lottery player wins $500,000News Story
A Silver Spring, Maryland, man won $500,000 in Wednesday evening's Maryland Pick 4 drawing playing twenty tickets. This is the second big win for him. In 1997, he won $250,000 playing Pick 4. I told the Lottery official back then that I would be back and here I am, he said. The winner also hit midday that same day for $3000. The office manager of a contracting company was home sick on Wednesday and called the store to put in his evening numbers. The retailer told him he hit midda
Apr 17, 2006, 4:05 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery breaks weekly sales recordNews Story
The Maryland Lottery broke several records last week, bringing in nearly $35 million in sales. Scratch-off sales exceeded $11 million for the first time in the Lottery's history, while Pick 4 had a record-breaking sales week of almost $5 million. Players also benefited from huge payouts in Pick 3 and Pick 4. And, Keno and Keno Bonus brought in a hefty $9.3 million in combined sales. The $35 million week was the Lottery's third best sales week ever. Only two other sales weeks proved bette
Feb 7, 2006, 12:04 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery to end Lotto gameNews Story
The Maryland State Lottery Agency recently announced that the current Lotto game will soon come to an end. The final drawing will take place on February 1, 2006.Since it began in 1983, Lotto has generated over $1 billion in cash prizes and has produced a total of 622 millionaires over a 23-year span.To replace the current Lotto game, the Lottery will launch Multi-Match.Since the introduction of the Big Game in 1996, Lotto sales have declined. Based on extensive player research, the Lottery has
Nov 21, 2005, 8:28 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Winner Sentenced For Failing To Pay TaxesNews Story
A big lottery winner from Chevy Chase, Maryland, has been ordered to serve six months of home confinement for failing to report his windfall to state tax collectors.It's part of a three-year suspended sentence for Faegh Ansari-Jaberi. The state attorney general's office said Ansari-Jaberi, 57, failed to file state tax returns between 2000 and 2002.Ansari-Jaberi admitted to having received more than $158,000 in lottery winnings between 2000 and 2002 none of which he reported to the state.Additi
Oct 6, 2005, 10:33 am - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery to replace classic Lotto gameNews Story
A million bucks doesn't buy dreams like it used to.The first Maryland lottery game to offer $1 million prizes seems likely to become extinct, a victim of players who opt to gamble instead on mega-jackpots.Introduced in November 1983 to help bail out financially strapped localities such as Prince George's County and Baltimore, Maryland Lotto once the lottery's flagship game is showing its age, according to state officials.In the past fiscal year, Maryland Lotto sales dropped 5 percent while e
Aug 4, 2005, 7:42 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery a case study in the science of random numbersNews Story
The Maryland Lottery provides a good example of why true lottery ball machines are much better than a computerized drawing for choosing lottery numbers. This is the super-secret lottery vault. It's 90 minutes before Tuesday's lunchtime picks, and Patrick Morton, the 35-year-old drawing manager for the Maryland State Lottery Agency, is only half joking as he hovers over a small keypad deep inside the studios of WJZ-TV.Beside the keypad is a large metal door - locked, alarmed, monitored by camera.
Jun 11, 2005, 2:29 am - Lottery News

Attempted cash-in of stolen lottery tickets brings arrestsNews Story
Police hit the jackpot in the River Market robbery, nabbing a gambler who tried to redeem stolen lottery tickets -- at the River Market.Apparently, the thieves who stole about 500 lottery tickets failed to inform buyers of the hot scratch rub-off instant games to not cash them in at Market Street's River Market on the Somerset County side of Pocomoke City. (Thieves) sold the tickets to the guy, who tried to cash them in. He went to the River Market, said Cpl. Scott Brent, an investigator at t
Mar 22, 2005, 10:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery Scammer SentencedNews Story
A 19-year-old high school student pleads guilty to trying to con the Maryland Lottery out of $175,000.John Gilbert was sentenced in Baltimore County court Tuesday to 50 hours of community service and six months probation for presenting a counterfeit ticket for payment.Prosecutors say Gilbert taped together the top half of a losing Mega Millions ticket with the bottom half of a ticket showing the winning numbers, which he'd played the day after the drawing.
Aug 18, 2004, 10:56 am - Lottery News

Maryland woman collects $175,000 Mega winNews Story
Sharon Bishop, 33, of Hagerstown, Maryland, says she's no expert on winning, but after Wednesday she has a little experience.Bishop won a consolation prize for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, netting her $175,000.In a telephone interview Wednesday, Bishop described her winning strategy.She said she didn't start playing games of chance until about two years ago. And she started playing Mega Millions last year during a big jackpot. Well, yeah, it's gambling, she says.Bishop said sometimes
Jul 15, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News