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Lottery yields $6, new heart for Missouri manNews Story
Richard Silvey had never hit the jackpot with lottery tickets. Hed play Powerball and Missouri Lottery each week, occasionally winning a few dollars.And luck didnt abound when his defibrillator, which applies a brief electric shock to the heart to maintain a normal heartbeat, stopped working properly. Hed received the defibrillator in 1999 to correct his ventricular tachycardia, or rapid heart beat, but he started fainting from the failing defibrillator in November.So he checked into St. Lukes M
Jan 18, 2005, 7:35 am - Lottery News

GTECH to earn $85M from Missouri lottery contractNews Story
GTECH Holdings Corporation announced Thursday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation, was chosen by the State of Missouri to provide a new online lottery central system, terminals, and ongoing services under a proposed seven-year integrated services contract.The contract is expected to commence July 1, 2005 with the option to renew the contract for up to eight years beyond the expiration date of June 30, 2012.GTECH expects to generate approximately $85 million over the seven-year te
Dec 17, 2004, 3:10 pm - Lottery News

Missouri man collects $1.7 million jackpotNews Story
Save one person, a retired southwest Missouri man doesn't plan to shower friends or family members with gifts after winning a $1.7 million Missouri Lotto jackpot. My family and friends haven't nurtured any sort of relationship with me, said Bill Michael, 66, of Carthage, and, in my best Jack Nicholson voice, 'What do you think of me now?' Michael, who is a retired laborer at a plant nursery, came forward Wednesday to collect his $1.7 million Missouri Lotto jackpot.Michael let the computer pick
Oct 21, 2004, 9:38 am - Lottery News

Missouri lottery winner to validate $3.1 million winning ticketNews Story
Missouri Lottery asks man to 'Show Me'He bought a lottery ticket at the Mini Mart in Ava. On Saturday he hit the jackpot. At least he thinks so.Now, an Ava man must wait until Wednesday or Thursday for state lottery officials to verify whether his lottery ticket will turn him into a $3.1 million winner in the Missouri Lottery. The man turned in his ticket Monday morning at the Ava convenience store, said worker Rhonda Yost. Her co-worker was on duty when the man arrived. She said he was just lik
Sep 21, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Group buys every Pick 3 lottery combination and winsNews Story
Pick a number, every number.That's how Ken Seidel and a few St. Louis-area buddies seized the opportunity to make a Missouri Lottery game a nearly sure thing.The numbers the lottery drew in Thursday's midday Pick 3 game were 4-5-2 in the regular drawing and 1-4-4 in a bonus drawing that Seidel says guaranteed him a 20 percent return on the $23,000 of chances he and his friends bought, at $1 a pop.That's an easy $4,600 profit.The daily Pick 3 drawing allows players to choose three numbers from 0-
Aug 9, 2004, 8:19 am - Lottery News

Missouri shuts down illegal lottery Web siteNews Story
A young man from Festus, Missouri set up his own online lottery and named it after a TV show. He called his Web site pimpmyride.com. Pimp My Ride is a show on MTV. There's no connection between the show and the lottery.The lottery Web site invited people to enter the contest for a $2 fee. The winner of a random drawing was to get $20,000 to customize, or pimp out, their vehicle.The site drew entries from across the country. Some people entered as many as 100 times.According to court record
Jul 29, 2004, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Ignites Controversy with Computerized DrawingsNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveFalling in lockstep with a controversial industry trend, the Missouri Lottery decided to change its lottery drawings from mechanical lottery ball machines to a random number generator computer system.Opponents of the computerized drawings say that computers cannot achieve the true randomness of a physical drawing mechanism, mainly due to computers' inherent non-random properties.In addition, with computer hacking, viruses, and tampering on the rise, concerned citizens worry
Jul 21, 2004, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Missouri man wins $11.6 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A construction worker from the eastern Missouri town Wentzville had an extra dollar while grocery shopping and decided to buy a Missouri Lotto ticket.It turned out to be a good choice for David Spitznagel, 49, who matched all six numbers to win $11.6 million in the July 14 drawing. The Missouri Lottery released Spitznagel's name Tuesday.Spitznagel purchased the winning ticket at a Shop N Save store in O'Fallon. He let the computer randomly generate the winning numbers: 17, 21, 31, 34, 41 and 43.
Jul 21, 2004, 9:19 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery expands games to twice a dayNews Story
The Missouri Lottery's daily games will expand from one to two drawings a day later this month, officials said Friday.Gary Gonder, the lottery's spokesman, said the Pick 3, Pick 4 and Show Me 5 games will have a mid-day drawing in addition to the evening drawing, starting July 26. As a customer convenience, we're adding the mid-day draw, he said.Gonder said 21 other states already offer mid-day drawings, including neighboring Iowa and Illinois, and Missouri is catching up. Prices to play the va
Jul 10, 2004, 3:37 am - Lottery News

Missouri lottery sales set recordNews Story
The Missouri Lottery had record sales of nearly $800 million last fiscal year, the lottery said Wednesday.The lottery recorded $791.5 million in estimated sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30, an 11.5 percent increase from the previous year.Lottery director Jim Scroggins attributed the increase in sales to high jackpots in the state Lotto and multistate Powerball games, increased Scratchers sales and growth in Club Keno.Lottery players won more than $484 million for the year.The high sal
Jul 8, 2004, 10:03 am - Lottery News