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Tennessee lottery marks six-month anniversaryNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery celebrated its six-month anniversary this week, having raised more than enough money to pay for college scholarships for good students. But the executives who run the lottery are still hearing criticism from legislators that they make too much money and get too many perks.Sen. Steve Cohen, a Memphis Democrat who was the primary force in the Legislature for creating the games, said the lottery is doing as well as expected because people have played it and enjoyed it. The on
Jul 21, 2004, 9:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery has paid nearly $700,000 in bonuses to dateNews Story
State lawmakers are surprised by the number of Tennessee Lottery employees who have received bonuses totaling nearly $700,000 since the launch of the games in January.Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul has earned $245,000 in bonuses for beginning scratchoff games ahead of schedule and starting the lottery online by March 20. The other 142 Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. employees have cashed $422,304 in startup bonus checks, according to lottery records, an average of $2,974 each.Paul used employee ince
Apr 19, 2004, 6:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee businesses banking on lotteryNews Story
For years, Tony Kim watched as customers looking to buy gas, snacks or cigarettes bypassed his store here and crossed the state line into Kentucky in search of one thing: lottery tickets.Beginning Tuesday, Kim hopes to draw that business back to his Favorite Xpress BP store when Tennessee launches its own lottery a venture almost 20 years in the making. We have to join the game everybody's doing it, said Kim, who with several partners, owns three other convenience stores in Clarksville and five
Jan 17, 2004, 2:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

TN Lottery board meets today, to hear Georgia proposalNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery Corporation Board is expected to hear a proposal Monday from Georgia officials about a potential deal between the state games. The board's second meeting begins at 1:00 pm (Central). The proposal involves pooling resources and expertise to keep down costs associated with the Tennessee and Georgia lotteries. On another matter, the lottery corporation will now hire it's own attorney. Governor Bredesen initially arranged for a Nashville law firm to handle the lotte
Jul 28, 2003, 7:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

UPDATE: Georgia man who won C8 Corvette from scratch-off will get his prized carNews Story
By Kate Northrop A Georgia man who won the top prize of a C8 Corvette in a scratch-off lottery game and previously had trouble claiming his prized car will get it sooner than expected, thanks to the stir his story caused. Dennis Kahler must have figured the squeaky wheel gets the oil, since news of his plight circulating online prompted the Lottery to act quickly and arrange an order for the hot and in-demand car he won from the Corvette and Cash scratch-off game. Upon winning the top p
Jan 25, 2021, 6:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky lotteries to cancel Decades of DollarsNews Story
Making room for upcoming national Monopoly game By Todd Northrop There are just twenty remaining chances to play and win the multi-state Decades of Dollars game in Arkansas, Georgia, and Kentucky. The first drawing of Decades of Dollars was on Feb. 3, 2011, in the states of Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. Arkansas later joined the game starting with the drawing on May 5, 2011. Arkansas, Georgia, and Kentucky will not be participating in any drawings after October 16, 2014. After tha
Aug 8, 2014, 1:23 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Alford named sole finalist to lead Georgia LotteryNews Story
The sole finalist to lead the Georgia Lottery is the state's top budget official, Debbie Dlugolenski Alford, officials said Tuesday. The acknowledgement confirmed a report last week by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Alford was a leading candidate to replace Margaret DeFrancisco as president of one of the country's most successful lotteries. Alford currently leads the governor's Office of Planning and Budget and serves on the Lottery Board. She would be the state's first lottery dire
Oct 10, 2012, 7:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery error prompts payout on two sets of winning numbersNews Story
By Todd Northrop An incorrect number reported by the Virginia Lottery for Wednesday night's Win For Life drawing has prompted the participating states of Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia to payout on two sets of winning numbers. Win For Life is a multi-state lottery game played in Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia. Players choose six numbers from 1 to 42, and can win one of eight different prizes, ranging from $2 to the Grand prize of $1,000 a week for life. The third number drawn for the
Jan 6, 2011, 1:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Georgia couple wins $1 million lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Jim Fain couldn't believe his eyes. His wife, Tina Beckham-Fain, sat on the floor of their Milledgeville home reading the number on the first of five lottery tickets they bought for the Millionaire Raffle as he looked at the winning combination on the Georgia Lottery Web site. Beckham-Fain read 285704. Unsure of what he was seeing on his computer, Fain then asked her to read the screen. She did and the numbers matched. I started to hyperventilate, said Fain, a 42-year-old corpor
Jul 11, 2007, 1:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery considers casino optionsNews Story
Plan aims to increase jobs, scholarship money Underground Atlanta's developers have put their cards on the table to bring casino-style gaming to Georgia. Dan O'Leary and John Aderhold, the leaseholders of Underground, have approached the Georgia Lottery board with plans for a half billion-dollar casino and hotel complex that would inject cash into the HOPE Scholarship and generate millions of tax dollars for the region. The leaseholders of city-supported Underground and Delaware horse t
Jan 14, 2009, 3:27 pm - Todd - Lottery News