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Arkansas Lottery partners with grocery chain on vending machinesNews Story
An Ohio-based grocery store chain has signed a contract with the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery to sell lottery tickets through vending machines. Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue signed the agreement April 11 after the House Rules Committee declined to recommend passage of a Senate-approved bill that would bar the lottery from using the machines. The Arkansas lottery began selling tickets through the machines on Feb. 3 at a Love's Travel Stop in North Little Rock, and the machines have si
Apr 25, 2011, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Army veteran returning to Afghanistan wins $250,000News Story
An Army veteran from Fayetteville, Georgia, won a quarter million dollars in the Georgia Lottery days before his return to Afghanistan. Gregg Curry, a father of three and a master sergeant with the Third U.S. Army Forces Central Command, bought a winning Cool Cash ticket while stopping to buy a bottle of water with his wife, Mary, lottery officials said Friday. Curry, 47, returns to Afghanistan today. He was home for two weeks from Bagram Airfield, where he's been stationed for seven month
Apr 18, 2011, 8:50 am - Lottery News

Pair arrested for allegedly stealing lottery ticketsNews Story
Police say they found stolen scratchers at the couple's hotel Two Glendale, California, residents were arrested Sunday for allegedly stealing dozens of lottery scratchers after distracting a store clerk, police said. Melody Keshishzadeh, 20, and Sevak Vardumyan, 21, were arrested about 4:40 p.m. at the Days Inn on Pioneer Drive after police spotted their Cadillac in the parking lot, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Either way, the scratchers would have been a losing prospect. St
Apr 12, 2011, 2:35 pm - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket worth $30,000 found in church collection plateNews Story
A struggling Baltimore parish received a surprising donation two Sundays ago, when a Maryland Lottery Cash Craze Crossword scratch-off ticket worth $30,000 arrived in the collection plate. The ticket, which was already scratched revealing the win, was discovered by the church's pastor when tallying the day's contributions. I'm not too familiar with these tickets, said the pastor. I asked somebody if it was a winner. The response was It looks like it's a winner to me. With this affirmation
Mar 29, 2011, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

Texas man alters lottery ticket, tries to claim prizeNews Story
Did the Scotch tape give it away? A Houston man is accused of altering a lottery ticket last year to claim the cash prize, the Harris County District Attorney's Office said. Allen Hudaifa, 57, was charged on Friday with claiming a lottery prize by fraud a second-degree felony, officials said. In February 2010, Hudaifa tried to redeem a scratch-off lottery ticket that would have netted him $1,000 a week for 20 years. But it was clear the alleged winning ticket had been tampered with,
Feb 14, 2011, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Statistician cracks secret code behind lottery ticketsNews Story
Is the apparent randomness of the scratch ticket just a facade, a mathematical lie? The call came around 3 a.m. Toronto time, which was midnight in Nevada where Doug Hartzell was sleeping. It was his old friend, Mohan Srivastava, phoning from Canada. He called me and said, 'Man, I think I'm losing it. But I see a pattern in scratch lottery tickets,' said Hartzell, recalling that 2003 conversation. My reaction almost instantly was like: I'm sure he's right. Over their three decades
Feb 2, 2011, 1:40 pm - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery dog contest has entrants howling over voting cheatsNews Story
By Todd Northrop The New Mexico was forced to put their Lucky Dog Photo Contest on a leash yesterday when it was determined that some entrants were piling on extra votes. Between Jan. 4 and Jan. 23, dog owners were able to submit photos of their dogs to the New Mexico Lottery. Entry was free, and the top 25 photos, based on public voting, will be finalists. The New Mexico Lottery will select six of those finalists to appear on a new line of scratch card tickets. The Lucky Dog game, sche
Jan 26, 2011, 5:42 pm - Lottery News

College student treated to 'royal' Georgia Lottery prizeNews Story
Includes video report A college student who purchased a winning ticket in Savannah is mapping out her future after claiming a half-million dollar Georgia Lottery prize. Krystal Huerta-Galindo, 26, played the Georgia Lottery instant game Royal Riches and won a $500,000 top prize. Huerta-Galindo drove from Moncks Corner, S.C., where she resides, to visit her mother, a truck driver. She purchased the ticket at Pilot Travel Center #0072, 1504 Dean Forest Road in Savannah. She scratch
Jan 24, 2011, 5:30 pm - Lottery News

Losing NJ Lottery tickets may soon be lucrativeNews Story
Some losing New Jersey Lottery scratch-off tickets may soon become lucrative items. New Jersey Lottery officials plan to soon roll out Million Dollar Replay, a program that will allow scratch-off holders to enter their losing tickets into a yearly $1 million drawing. To take part, players will have to join the lottery's VIP Club and have bought at least $10 in non-winning tickets. The lottery will also hold quarterly drawings to pick 100 winners who will each get $250. And at year's end
Jan 15, 2011, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

States look for winning formulas to spur lottery salesNews Story
Buy a scratch lottery ticket in Georgia, and you can win music downloads or a seat at an Atlanta Falcons game. In New York, one of the top sellers is an all-black ticket as sleek as an Armani suit. And in Texas, where they brag that everything is bigger, a single ticket goes for $50. With state budgets in crisis and lottery-financed programs like prekindergarten being considered for cuts, the pressure is on to make lottery tickets more attractive to casual scratchers and people who may have n
Dec 23, 2010, 7:37 pm - Lottery News