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Texas lottery officials move ahead with bidding

9 Mar 2010 at 9:20pm

Bidding for a new lucrative Texas lottery contract should move forward because there's no evidence that state consultant Gartner Inc.

SC Lottery Discusses Gambling Addiction, Treatment

9 Mar 2010 at 4:58pm

Lottery officials in South Carolina are getting together with addiction specialists to discuss the importance of responsible playing.

Ohio Lottery says Keno sales strengthening

9 Mar 2010 at 12:38pm

The Ohio lottery says its Keno game appears to be catching on after a sluggish first year and a half.

Kentucky Lottery earns first Responsible Gaming Certfication

9 Mar 2010 at 12:19pm
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation has been awarded Level 2 Certification of the World Lottery Association's (WLA's) Responsible Gaming Framework.

Gambling, Kentucky, Announcement, Addiction

Suspect in Lakeland Lottery Winner Killing Says She's Broke

9 Mar 2010 at 8:03am

Published: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:56 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 10:20 a.m. TAMPA The woman accused of killing Lakeland lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare now claims to be broke and has been appointed a public defender.

Two Great Falls Residents Claim Lottery Prizes, Montana Millionaire Jackpot S...

9 Mar 2010 at 3:01am

Montana Lottery officials say two Great Falls residents have claimed recent lottery prizes.

Mega Millions Jackpot Winner Surfaces in Long Beach

8 Mar 2010 at 10:08pm

The search for the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $133 million may be over.

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8 Mar 2010 at 10:00pm
Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 2-8-3 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 7-1-2-3

Accused Lotto Killer Asks For Public Defender

8 Mar 2010 at 5:09pm

The woman charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Florida Lottery winner says she doesn't have enough money to hire a lawyer.

Powerball ticket worth $1 million sold in Idaho

8 Mar 2010 at 11:15am

Idaho Lottery officials say a Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in Bonneville County.

Store clerk stole $100,000 in lottery tickets, police say

8 Mar 2010 at 9:03am
A Kroger employee was arrested Thursday on charges she stole more than $100,000 in lottery tickets.

Ohio, Scratch Games, Theft, Law Enforcement, Crime

1 ticket wins $133M Mega Millions lottery jackpot

8 Mar 2010 at 8:06am
One lucky lottery player from California can lay claims to a $133 million jackpot.

Mega Millions, California, Jackpots, Winning Ticket Announcement, Multi-State Game

S.C. Lottery sales up by 3 percent; Powerball sales down

8 Mar 2010 at 7:12am
It's early yet, but the multi-state lottery game Mega Millions has not sent lottery ticket sales shooting through the roof in South Carolina.

Mega Millions, Powerball, Financials, South Carolina, Sales, Multi-State Game

Lottery ticket thief tries to claim prize at same store

8 Mar 2010 at 6:22am
Police say a 22-year-old Winter Haven man walked into a Circle K last week and stole $70 worth of Florida Scratch-Off tickets then returned to the same store to cash a winning $50 ticket.

Florida, Scratch Games, Theft, Law Enforcement, Crime

Powerball sales dipped during Mega Millionsa 1st month in SC

8 Mar 2010 at 6:04am

It's early yet, but the multistate lottery game Mega Millions has not sent lottery ticket sales shooting through the roof in South Carolina.

Sandra Bullock Gives Tongue-in-Cheek Speech for Worst Actress Razzie Win - ET

8 Mar 2010 at 12:58am

Golden Globe winner, SAG Award winner and Oscar nominee Sandra Bullock gave the Razzie Awards a piece of her mind when she won for Worst Actress for her role in the 2009 comedy 'All About Steve.' The Golden Raspberry Awards are presented right before the Oscars to recognize the worst in films.

No big wins in Sat. Lotto, Powerball drawings

7 Mar 2010 at 7:38pm

BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Lottery Corp. says nobody won the big Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings Saturday night.

Winning numbers drawn in CA 'Daily Derby' game

7 Mar 2010 at 1:51pm

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were: 1st-4 Big Ben, 2nd-11 Money Bags, 3rd-1 Gold Rush, Race Time: 1:44.76 To win the grand prize, ticket-holders must match in exact order the winning race time and the first, second and third place horses.

No Jackpot Winner

7 Mar 2010 at 7:52am

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-29-33-41-59 Powerball: 15 Power Play: 2 Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $144.7 Million jackpot.

$675K Louisiana Lotto ticket sold in Hammond

7 Mar 2010 at 2:28am

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says a winning ticket worth $675,000 in Wednesday's Louisiana Lotto drawing was sold in Hammond.

Gambling tipped for supermarkets

6 Mar 2010 at 9:22pm

LOTTO tickets and scratchies could soon be on sale in supermarkets due to the $850 million sell off of lotteries to the Tatts Group.

$133M Mega Millions Ticket Sold In Long Beach

6 Mar 2010 at 4:01pm

Share + Mar 6, 2010 9:16 am US/Pacific LONG BEACH, Calif. 1 of 1 A Long Beach doughnut shop owner who sold a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $133 million was celebrating his own winnings Saturday morning.

$133M Mega Millions Jackpot Awarded

6 Mar 2010 at 10:22am

A winning Mega Millions ticket for Friday night's drawing, worth $133 million, was sold to a player in California.

Winning numbers drawn in OR 'Pick 4 - 7PM' game

6 Mar 2010 at 4:32am

PORTLAND, Ore. - The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 - 7PM" game were: 6-4-6-1 Site Search Make us your home page News Weather Sports Entertainment Living Interact Jobs Autos Real Estate Classifieds Shopping Place an Ad Hillsboro Argus © 2010 Oregon Live LLC.

Muncie war vet wins lottery

5 Mar 2010 at 11:11pm

A Muncie man is the state's newest millionaire, after winning $9 million in the Hoosier Lotto.

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4.8 Million People Nearly Win Lottery!

A record 4.8 million people nearly won the South African National Lottery grand prize of R6.5 million this weekend - the largest number of almost-winners in the Lottery's history.

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Officials confirmed the record high number of near winners for this weekend's draw.

"This proves once and for all that almost anyone could nearly win millions and millions," said a Lottery spokesperson.

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[An] enthusiast explains. "I forgot to complete my lotto system a couple of weeks ago, and the numbers that came up that weekend would have been exactly the numbers I would have picked, give or take a number or two.”

"So I nearly won, and I didn't even buy a ticket!"

Lottery officials concede that several people have in fact nearly won the lotto without purchasing a ticket.

"I suppose it's possible, but how can they prove it?" was an official comment.

However, there are still many that are optimistic about their chances in next week's draw. Statistics shows that those who nearly win the lottery in one week are 99.998% likely to nearly win in the following week.

[Original source: comedyclub.co.za/feature/feature85.html (now defunct)]

Dyslexic awarded Lotto winnings!

The National Lottery has announced that they will be reassessing the terms and conditions of weekly Lotto draws to ensure that this sort of thing never happens again.

The High Court yesterday found in favour of the plaintiff, Mia Fieth (nee Borrer), of 22 Budious Road, Observatory in her case against the National Lottery when it was concluded that only her disability had prevented her from winning, despitehavingknown the right numbers.

After thirty-seven minutes of deliberation, a jury unanimously awarded her the million rand prize money saying that she had indeed come up with the correct numbers and it was only in selecting them from the lottery sheet that the dyslexia had caused her to fill in the wrong spaces.

Mrs Fieth had correctly filled in the numbers9 and 22 and it was fairly straightforward to see that she had filled in number 13 mistakenly as 31 and number 32 as 23 bit it was the last two numbers that caused the deep inquiry.

In fact it took expert testimony from Dr. Biff Borrer and a series of confusing logarythmical graph comparisons which he flipped through very quickly as he mumbled phrases like 'regressive retination' and 'perpendicular digit-flipping' to show how the other two numbers Mrs Fiethhad picked - 3 and 29 - were actually meant to be the numbers 17 and 39 respectively.

Dr. Borrer, in conclusion, said: 'Ah yes, it is a very rare and specificised type of Dyslexia that we are dealing with here, not common to humans. With normal Dyslexia the person in their mind switches round digits or letters but with this brand which I will call Pulyorlegial Dyslexititis, that occurs as well but occasional additions and multiplications are also known to sometimes appear. By looking at the numbers Mrs Fieth blocked out and comparing it to the actual winning Lotto numbers, a trained professional like myself can see immediately that they are one and the same.'

Don Canhoostin, director of the National Lotto, was unavailable for comment. In a statement issued by the National Lotto,they have announced that they will be drawing up an extended form of terms and conditions to attach to the weekly Lotto drawings so that this kind of charade never happens again.

[Original source: anastrophe.co.za/sa_news/lotto_dyslexic.html (now defunct)]

New Lotto System

Because of cashflow problems, the National Lotteries Board today announced a brand new lotto: Instead of a big lump sum payment, a lottery winner will now instead receive R2.50 a year - for a million years!

The Farmer who won the Lotto

They recently interviewed the lucky old farmer from Bothaville who had won R20 million in the Lottery. When asked what he was gonna do with all that money and if it was going to change his life, he scratched his head and said: "Not 100% sure, but I'll probably just keep on farming untill it's all gone".

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