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Arkansas Lottery picks Scientific Games for instant ticketsNews Story
A Georgia lottery equipment company will supply scratch-off tickets to Arkansas' fledging lottery, an oversight panel decided Wednesday. The Arkansas Lottery Commission awarded an instant ticket contract worth 1.75 percent of net ticket sales to Alpharetta, Ga.-based Scientific Games Corp. The deal is expected to be worth millions of dollars based on a $400 million annual sales estimate. Commissioners also awarded an advertising contract to a Little Rock firm, as the panel speeds toward a
Aug 10, 2009, 9:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

Titans, Tenn. Lottery team up for new instant gameNews Story
Count the Titans among the NFL teams partnering with state lotteries. The Titans and the Tennessee Lottery will announce their partnership today. The deal gives lottery players an opportunity to win prizes including season tickets, cash up to $100,000 and team memorabilia. The NFL began allowing its teams to partner with state lotteries in May. The Titans logo will be featured on the instant scratch-off tickets. The blue and red instant ticket, which features 15 Titan helmets, offers a
Jul 31, 2009, 11:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

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Feb 1, 2009, 11:48 pm - edge - Pick 5 Forum

Triple watch 12/12 SpecialReply
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It won't be your imagination if the moon looks bigger and brighter Friday night, like a cosmic flood lamp. NASA says the moon will appear up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter. Every few years, a full moon coincides with the point in the satellite's elliptical orbit that brings it closest to the center of the Earth. Friday night, the moon will be fully illuminated just four hours after reaching that point, according to a feature story on the National Aer
Dec 12, 2008, 9:54 pm - Blackapple - Mystical Forum

Calif. Lottery fails to meet Mega Millions deadlineNews Story
The Democrat-controlled California legislature, which has taken an adversarial role against the California Lottery for the past several years, has not met its obligation to change state law by a court-ordered deadline, aimed at ensuring participation in multi-state lotto is fair to education, lottery officials said Wednesday. The lottery bill making the needed change extension of California's prize-claim period to match 11 other Mega Millions states remained stalled on the eve of Friday's
Jul 12, 2007, 1:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Upcoming TV show to highlight successful lottery winnersNews Story
All Fred Brown ever wanted to do was sell cars. He didn't realize that goal also would land him on a cable television show. But that's what happened to Brown, now the general manager of Garnsey Wheeler Ford of Greeley and Fort Morgan, who is the subject of an upcoming show on The Learning Channel. The show, which will probably be aired in the coming months, is about lottery winners who have gone on to successful careers despite a lottery windfall. Brown won $6 million in the Colorado Lot
May 3, 2007, 8:34 am - Todd - Lottery News

NJ lawmakers cool to idea of selling lotteryNews Story
Part 3 of a 3-part look at the New Jersey Lottery In a state bleeding red ink and desperately needing a cash infusion to pay down growing debts, it sometimes seems like almost anything could come up for sale. In the name of quick cash, lawmakers have floated ideas for selling state buildings and iconic roads. In a smaller gesture aimed at squeezing out some dollars to balance the books, Gov. Jon S. Corzine recently stood in a field of used state cars to promote their sale. So what about
Jul 25, 2006, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Sale of Illinois Lottery could start a trendNews Story
If Illinois privatizes its lottery system, investors and public officials in other states will closely watch the groundbreaking move with an eye toward repeating it, a gaming industry leader predicted Wednesday. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat running for a second term in November, announced Tuesday a proposal to sell off or lease the state's lottery system to private investors in order to bolster school funding. He said the state could get $10 billion out of the deal and use the money to fu
May 25, 2006, 9:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery scratch games called 'paper slot machines'News Story
Stephen Sunny Big Guy Bernath buys a fistful of instant lottery tickets every day and takes his place on a wooden bench next to a garbage can in front of the Krauszer's R J Food Store in Perth Amboy.There, the heavyset 70-year-old man rubs each ticket with a finger, cusses at it, then tosses it in the trash.Rub, cuss, toss.Rub, cuss, toss.He has been known to do this for hours, filling the garbage can with his losers before going back into the store to try his luck again. Crossword. Betty Boop
Dec 5, 2005, 1:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

For some lottery winners jackpot is a 'nightmare'Reply
What most Americans don't understand is that money is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. In any capitalistic society, the amount of money a person has access to directly corresponds to the amount of freedom that person has to move about within that society. The Robber Barons of the early 20th century understood this principal, and exploited it without shame.Steal a loaf of bread to feed your children, you go to jail because you don't have enough money to pay for the bread. Steal millio
Nov 17, 2004, 4:39 pm - jim695 - Lottery News