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2nd Powerball winner from Rhode Island announcedNews Story
A Rhode Island woman claimed the second Powerball jackpot in that state in recent months Tuesday but it fell to her attorney to pose alongside the oversized lottery check. Kathleen Last of Smithfield, R.I., had the winning ticket in the March 7 drawing for the $60 million Powerball prize, state lottery officials said. She elected to take her winnings in a $37 million lump sum. Last's attorney represented her at Tuesday's official announcement of her winnings. Attorney Edmund Alves said his
Apr 5, 2012, 8:10 am - Lottery News

New England states start new lottery game ThursdayNews Story
Updated Mar. 13, 2012, 11:12 am: New game replaces Weekly Grand Extra. By Todd Northrop For the first time ever, the six New England states will jointly run a multi-state lottery game, starting this week. The new Lucky for Life regional draw game begins this Thursday, March 15 for the six following states: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massechusetts, and Rhode Island. Ticket sales for the new game started Sunday. For Connecticut, the new Lucky for Life replaces a simila
Mar 13, 2012, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Rhode Island woman, 81, claims $336 Million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Includes video report Louise White, a vivacious 81-year-old of Newport, R.I., stepped forward today as the winner of $336.4 million, the third largest Powerball lottery in the history of the game. I want to say that I'm very happy and I'm very proud. This will make my family very happy, she said. We are truly blessed. Thank you. White took her bonanza calmly, speaking briefly and then leaving the crowded news conference for her new team of attorneys to handle. One of her attorneys,
Mar 6, 2012, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

$336 million Powerball ticket sold at R.I. supermarketNews Story
By Todd Northrop Rhode Island Lottery officials say the winning ticket in Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop Shop supermarket at 250 Bellevue Avenue in Newport. The winning Powerball ticket was the only one that matched all five numbers plus the Powerball number Saturday to win what turned out to be the sixth-largest jackpot in US history the third-largest ever won by a single ticket. Officials said Monday that no one has come forward yet to claim the prize,
Feb 13, 2012, 11:03 am - Lottery News

Lottery giant GTECH lays off 31 R.I. employeesNews Story
Lottery giant GTECH Corp. laid off 31 employees in Rhode Island two weeks ago as part of a larger round of worldwide cuts by its parent company, a spokesman said Tuesday. The job cuts took place on Nov. 17 at a number of the company's facilities in the state, said Robert Vincent, senior vice president for corporate affairs at GTECH, a subsidiary of the Italian company Lottomatica SpA. The parent company eliminated about 80 positions across its divisions, he said. Like most good companies,
Dec 1, 2009, 8:42 pm - Lottery News

Rhode Island Lottery celebrates first raffle drawingNews Story
Rhode Island didn't have any trouble selling out its first-ever raffle game. The drawing was held last night, and the full list of winning numbers are available on Lottery Post's Rhode Island Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/ri). With only 120,000 tickets available for sale, the state Lottery Commission proclaimed the New Year's Eve drawing as having the best odds among New England lotteries to win $1 million. Tickets for the raffle cost $20 each. In addition to the
Jan 1, 2009, 10:55 pm - Lottery News

Winning $151M Powerball lottery ticket sold in Rhode IslandNews Story
One lucky person from Rhode Island is holding the winning ticket from last night's $151 million Powerball drawing. Lottery officials aren't sure who the lucky winner is yet. Donald J. Cataldi, a sales manager for the Rhode Island Lottery, confirmed that the winning ticket had been sold at Warren Mart on Child Street. Someone's going to have one heck of a Christmas, Mr. Cataldi said. Rhode Island players have been lucky lately. We had a million dollar player a month ago. Tony Elhaj
Nov 29, 2007, 11:35 am - Lottery News

Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and winsNews Story
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel. The only thing she changed was her luck. After the show an
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - 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

Lottery mega-jackpots generating less 'buzz'News Story
Rhode Island Lottery chief predicts Powerball and Mega Millions will merge in the future Just a few years ago, a $240 million Powerball jackpot would have drawn long lines at gas stations and convenience stores across the state. But last week there was little buzz. And forget about lines. Call it jackpot fatigue. Rhode Islanders' appetite for gambling has lowered. And we're not alone. Elsewhere in the region, sales of lottery tickets and other forms of gambling are either less th
Jan 27, 2007, 9:23 am - Lottery News