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Virginia Lottery sales top $1 billion for fifth straight yearNews Story
Virginia Lottery sales have increased even as competition looms in neighboring states, lottery officials announced Tuesday.Lottery sales surpassed the $1 billion mark on April 6, compared to April 20 last year, said Virginia Lottery Executive Director Penelope Kyle. Lottery sales stood at $1.02 billion Monday, she said.Lottery officials forecast sales to top out at $1.35 billion by the end of the fiscal year, in June.Kyle attributed the upward trend to brisk sales of scratch-off tickets and big
Apr 13, 2005, 10:18 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery chief hopes Powerball win propels salesNews Story
Tennessee's first sale of a Powerball jackpot ticket has officials of the Tennessee Lottery hoping there will be more interest in the multi-state game, whose sales in Tennessee have been on the decline since December. I think having a Tennessee jackpot winner will excite folks, said Rebecca Paul, president and CEO of the state lottery, referring to Wednesday night's $25.5 million win by a family from South Pittsburg, Tenn. The large award was shared by Richie and Bobbi Hubbard, Brent and
Apr 4, 2005, 11:54 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery faces downturn in salesNews Story
The Missouri Lottery faces a $3.5 million budget cut that could force layoffs of a fourth of the agency's workers plus another General Assembly-ordered retreat from advertising.This will be the fourth year in a row we're taking a significant budget cut, director Jim Scroggins told Lottery Commission members last week.We are struggling to understand that and to understand how we are expected to grow business and increase sales.Despite more than $6 million in advertising cuts the past three years,
Mar 22, 2005, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Streak of jackpot winners is bad luck for Powerball lottery salesNews Story
Sales of Powerball lottery tickets across the nation are down drastically in recent months. The reason: People are too frequently beating the odds, which happen to be 1 in 120.5 million.In the past 12 weeks, players have won a record five Powerball jackpots, none larger than a mere $41 million.The streak of luck has meant the jackpots don't roll over enough times to build the huge prizes of $100 million or more. It's those giant amounts that bring out the lines of people who don't normally pla
Mar 16, 2005, 10:45 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery Sales Pass $1 BillionNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced today that gross ticket sales have surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.This is terrific news for education, said CEO and President Rebecca Paul. Tennessee players have embraced this new way to raise dollars for education. This milestone represents an ongoing level of success that we are committed to continue.Lottery officials said they soon will start their fourth computerized game, set to begin late spring. The new game is said
Mar 14, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery looks to install kiosks at airportNews Story
About 84 million people pass through the Atlanta airport each year, and another 55,000 work there. But if they want to buy Georgia lottery tickets, they're out of luck.Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Georgia Lottery Corp. hope to change that by opening a lottery kiosk in the main terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Other airport locations could follow.Lottery officials are in talks with airport General Manager Ben DeCosta, who said he's open to the idea. If we can make sure it work
Mar 8, 2005, 9:00 am - Lottery News

New Georgia lottery scratch game popular with playersNews Story
Frank Stone of Phenix City was sitting at a counter Thursday morning inside the Spectrum across from the Columbus Civic Center.He had a cigarette tucked tightly between the middle and ring fingers of his right hand. He had a silver coin in the same hand. And he was scratching away at the silver film on the oversized lottery card.Stone was playing the $100 Million Cash Spectacular, a new game offered by the Georgia Lottery Corp. It gets to you, Stone said. It seems like you have more chances of
Feb 28, 2005, 10:47 am - Lottery News

California's lottery retailer of the month is small family-owned storeNews Story
A relatively small Vallejo, California family business in a diminutive strip mall beat out more than 18,000 stores of all sizes to be named California's State Lottery Retailer of the Month for March.A ceremony was held at Vallejo's Market Town Liquor Deli on Tuesday.The accomplishment is remarkable considering Market Town's size, said Lance De Anda, a lottery official. The store has generated $4 million in lottery sales and contributed $1.5 million to public education since going into business
Feb 23, 2005, 2:39 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee bill would prohibit sales of lottery tickets on SundaysNews Story
Lottery Post Exclusive: Democrat duo wants to deny sales of lottery tickets on Sundays Rep. Frank Buck, D-Dowelltown, and Sen. Doug Jackson, D-Dickson are sponsoring a bill that would forbid the sale of lottery tickets in the State of Tennessee on Sundays. The measure is among the 2,337 bills filed in Tennessee's 104th General Assembly. The bill specifies that ticket sales will be forbidden for an 18-hour period each week beginning at 12:00 a.m. on Sunday and ending at 6:00 a.m. on Mo
Feb 21, 2005, 1:09 pm - Lottery News

Penn. officials study slots' effect on lottery revenuesNews Story
Pennsylvania state senators pressed state Revenue Secretary Greg Fajt last week on just one of the many multimillion dollar questions pertaining to the imminent arrival of slot machines.Will the new gaming harm the Pennsylvania Lottery, now flourishing due to the many small-time gamblers who focus their wagering dollars on the numbers and instant games?Fajt's answer on behalf of the pro-slots Rendell administration: We don't think so.But no one knows for certain. The question has not been studie
Feb 21, 2005, 9:30 am - Lottery News