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Tennessee gambler addiction program delayedNews Story
Tennessee officials have yet to start a promised $200,000, state-funded treatment program designed to help compulsive gamblers who may be tempted by the Tennessee Lottery, despite hopes by supporters to have the program in place as early as last fall.Now, the program may not be up and running until June one year after the governor signed off on the proposal.The state health officials charged with creating the program, which is supposed to include a hot line for problem gamblers to call and train
Jan 25, 2005, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery sales lower than other first-year salesNews Story
Tennessee's lottery had a ho-hum first year in sales when measuring its results against lotteries in other states.Its sales were in the middle when compared with other lotteries last year in the nation. And its revenues lagged behind sales during lottery startup years in Florida and Georgia, both states in which Tennessee Lottery President Rebecca Paul presided over the games.Tennesseans spent about $147 per capita on lottery games in the past 12 months, based on total revenue figures announced
Jan 21, 2005, 12:06 pm - Lottery News

Jackpot runner-up says lottery officials reneged on settlement offerNews Story
A 57-year-old Fayetteville, Tenn., man who sued the Tennessee Lottery after its first, and to date only, $1 million drawing last summer said he feels doubly cheated after a series of talks with lottery officials left him with no settlement agreement.Dennis Perry, who won the $10,000 third-place prize, claimed in his lawsuit that mistakes during the drawing may have cost him the top prize.The rules for the June 26 drawing at Opry Mills stated that the three contestants would randomly pick an enve
Jan 20, 2005, 5:54 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Gov. wants to use lottery funds for preschoolsNews Story
Tennessee Governor Bredesen plans to funnel some lottery money into his preschool education initiative when he unveils his budget to lawmakers in the coming weeks.Bredesen has made a statewide pre-kindergarten program one of his top priorities for the year.There had been speculation that lottery money would eventually pay for the program with a final price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.The governor told The Associated Press that he will propose using lottery money in the fiscal year beg
Jan 14, 2005, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery to finally reveal Lotto 5 jackpotsNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced that it will remove some of the mystery from its Lotto 5 computerized game by giving players an estimated jackpot before each of the tri-weekly drawings.Prior to estimating the jackpot, players only knew the rollover amount from the previous drawing if there was no winner. At the games launch, it was announced that the top prize would range from the tens of thousands to more than one-hundred thousand dollars.After just over four months of playing Lotto 5, players
Jan 13, 2005, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Senator pushes for bigger lottery scholarshipsNews Story
Whitney McKinney has at least a year before she has to decide where she'll go to college. But the McGavock High School junior said she's already looking closely at two private universities in Tennessee and one in Georgia.If Tennessee adds $1,000 to $2,000 a year to its HOPE Scholarship, however, choosing between the Volunteer State and the Peach State won't be nearly as tough.''I think that would make a very big difference,'' McKinney said. ''It's a lot when I think about college tuition. Raisin
Jan 10, 2005, 10:54 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lawmakers eyeing surplus lottery money for pre-K initiativeNews Story
With millions of dollars in surplus lottery money projected this year, Tennessee lawmakers are debating how much should be used for pre-kindergarten programs, even though Gov. Phil Bredesen has said that he wants most of the money to go toward college scholarships.''The governor has said from the beginning we need to have a track record from the lottery,'' spokeswoman Lydia Lenker said. ''He has not yet put a number on what is going to go into pre-K.''Bredesen said he wants to establish a volunt
Jan 4, 2005, 8:52 am - Lottery News

Tennesse lottery markets tickets as Christmas giftsNews Story
Buying lottery tickets as Christmas gifts hasn't caught on at east Nashville's Community Market, one of the city's most popular convenience stores for players to buy games.The idea never dawned on Seneca Bradley, 28, who plays there occasionally.But a $1 or $5 lottery game just may be the perfect alternative to a Christmas card, which would cost about the same, he said.Holiday-themed TV and radio commercials encourage people to buy lottery items everything from scratch-off games to Powerball tic
Dec 21, 2004, 9:56 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery surplus has state officials scramblingNews Story
Pre-K, increased scholarship amounts, other school programs are possibilitiesTennesseans are playing the lottery, but not as many students as expected are taking advantage of college scholarships and state officials have not decided what to do with the surplus.The scholarship program is projected to have $115 million in excess this year and another $79 million next budget year.State Sen. Steve Cohen, who sponsored the lottery, wants the money to pay for pre-kindergarten classes and to increase s
Dec 15, 2004, 9:33 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Governor proposes lottery scholarships for adultsNews Story
Students who don't take the traditional route to college also should be eligible for help from the lottery-funded scholarship program, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said.Bredesen said it is common for a student to take a year or two off from college before returning and finishing. He also said people returning to school later in life should have a chance at the scholarships. My fundamental belief of this country is that it is a 'second chance' country and you hate to lose somebody because they ca
Dec 9, 2004, 8:36 am - Lottery News