Lottery News

CLE ELUM, Wash. - Ida Bakeman's persistence finally paid and on her wedding anniversary, to boot.

Jul. 9, 2009, 8:20 a.m. North Carolina Education Lottery Executive Director Tom Shaheen has been elected to the top position of the association that offers the Powerball lottery game.

The recession has taken a bite out of sales for Washington Lottery games. Lottery spokeswoman Jacque Coe says preliminary figures for the fiscal year that ended June 30 show total sales of $487.7 million, about 6 percent less than the $521.1 million in sales for fiscal year 2008.

SHANGHAI: Starting next month, China will distribute new welfare lottery featuring Shanghai World Expo nationwide.

Jul. 9, 2009, 9:20 a.m. The Vermont lottery is 31 years old this year. Lottery revenues - after expenses - have grown substantially since its early days.

Call them the lucky ones. They are the ones who were recently notified that they scored the hottest tickets in town: A chance to appear on Antiques Roadshow when it comes to San Jose Aug.

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COLUMBUS - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will sign an executive order to authorize racetrack slots as part of a compromise with legislative leaders to break a budget stalemate.

Rebecca Hargrove, president and CEO of the Tennessee Education Lottery, has been named chair of the Powerball Group of the Multi-State Lottery Association.

The Hoosier Lottery is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a series of commemorative scratch-off games.

Can there ever again be a megastar the size of Michael Jackson? Nowadays, it's rare for a pop-culture icon to unite the world's divided attention.

Gov. Ted Strickland wants the Legislature to approve putting lottery-run slot machines at Ohio's horse tracks, which would include the Lebanon Raceway in Warren County.

The head of the Colorado Legislature's Joint Budget Committee warned on Thursday that brutal budget cuts, new fees and higher taxes are on the table when state lawmakers consider ways to fix the state budget.

A ticket sold at an Indianapolis convenience store matched all six numbers drawn for Wednesday night's $5.5 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot.

The Florida Lottery today announced that Wednesday's Powerball drawing resulted in a rollover, producing a $38 million jackpot for the next drawing.

The Florida Lottery announced today that no ticket matched the six-of-six winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto drawing, resulting in a rollover that produced a $3 Lotto Plus jackpot of $38 million, a $2 Lotto Plus jackpot of $23 million and a base jackpot of $13 million for the next drawing.

Despite efforts to keep people from profiting from Tuesday's public memorial service for Michael Jackson, scalpers online Monday were asking as much as $9,000 per ticket to the free event.

LANSING - Twelve women from Newberry in the Upper Peninsula claimed a $12.7-million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot today.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A 57-year-old Kenner man has claimed a $1.8 million Lotto jackpot, two months after his father predicted he would win a lottery prize.

Arkansas' lottery commission is moving closer to requesting bids from banks interested in handling the millions of dollars that may be raised by the new games.