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Washington Lottery-Seahawks team up on scratch gameNews Story
Washington's Lottery is rolling out a scratch-off ticket with the Seattle Seahawks, now that the NFL owners have agreed to allow team logos to be used on lottery tickets. The new Seahawks Winning Play Scratch tickets went on sale Tuesday and will be sold inside Qwest Field during Seahawks home games. The new Seahawks Scratch ticket gives players another way to support their team throughout the season, said Washington's Lottery Director Christopher Liu said in a statement. In addition, tic
Jul 22, 2009, 5:57 pm - Lottery News

Paula Bethea named interim S.C. Lottery chiefNews Story
The S.C. lottery has hired one of the games' original commissioners to be its interim executive director, an official said Wednesday. Paula Harper Bethea, a Bluffton civic leader and McNair Law Firm executive, is expected to take over daily operations of the $1 billion-a-year lottery later this month, said Tim Madden, lottery commission chairman. Bethea will succeed executive director Ernie Passailaigue. He resigned July 1 to start the Arkansas lottery, which is expected to begin sales lat
Jul 9, 2009, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery teams up with RavensNews Story
Officials hope scratch-off will boost sales Maryland Lottery officials are gambling that Ravens football fever will bolster ticket sales when a new scratch-off is unveiled later this year, marking one of the first partnerships of its kind in the country. Under the $810,000 deal with the Ravens approved by the state Board of Public Works on Wednesday, the team's logo will appear on $5 purple scratch-off tickets starting during the preseason in August. Prizes include lifetime season tickets
Jun 18, 2009, 9:54 pm - Lottery News

Euro Millions lottery winner is gardener and 'nice chap'News Story
Onion-growing granddad Brian Caswell will jet to Rio and buy a flash car after claiming a 25 million (US$40.8 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot. But the 74-year-old, who won half the Euro Millions jackpot last Friday, said he and wife Joan, 72, would not move far from their modest home in Bolton, Greater Manchester. CCTV footage captured the happy winner punching the air at his local newsagent on learning he had won on Saturday. He is Britain's third-biggest Lotto winner ever and t
Jun 18, 2009, 10:33 am - Lottery News

Patriots plan lottery tie-in after NFL eases stanceNews Story
Promo will be a first for a league still sensitive about betting scandals The New England Patriots are developing the first licensed NFL instant ticket with the Massachusetts State Lottery just days after league owners voted to allow teams to partner with lotteries across the country. This is going to be a hugely successful collaboration, Robert Kraft, chief executive of Kraft Group, which owns the Patriots, said yesterday. We are looking forward to helping the lottery generate much needed re
May 26, 2009, 1:27 pm - Lottery News

Ravens considering licensing deal with Md. LotteryNews Story
After NFL policy change, team in talks to put logo on scratch-off tickets The Ravens are huddling with Maryland Lottery officials over placing the team's logo for the first time on scratch-off tickets. We are in discussions, Ravens spokesman Chad Steele confirmed Friday, just 48 hours after the National Football League decided to allow clubs to strike such licensing deals with state-sponsored lotteries. Thursday, the New England Patriots reached an agreement with the Massachusetts Stat
May 23, 2009, 7:44 am - Lottery News

Nevada Gov. flip-flops on lotteryNews Story
True or not, it doesn't really matter Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons might not remember it, but the record shows he has flip-flopped on the issue of a state lottery. Gibbons told a town hall audience in Minden last week, I have no problem with a lottery. As they have for decades, lawmakers are again considering creating a state lottery in Nevada. Asked about his stance in an interview, Gibbons said, I never have opposed a lottery. When did you hear that? Gibbons' previous opposition is in
May 11, 2009, 6:40 am - Lottery News

One Euro Millions lottery ticket wins €126M jackpot (US$170M)News Story
One lucky lottery ticket from Spain matched 5 lotto numbers plus the two Lucky Stars in Friday's Euro Millions drawing to win a massive jackpot of 126 million (US$170 million). The huge prize was the result of six successive drawings without a winner in the multi-country European lottery game. The winning ticket, worth 126,231,764 (US$170,198,287), was sold in a central Madrid lottery sales office. As one would expect, the winner has not yet been revealed. Government lottery offices nor
May 9, 2009, 5:15 pm - Lottery News

Man loses house in lottery scamNews Story
Police have revealed that an elderly man from south west Scotland has lost his home to a foreign lottery scam. Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary made a renewed appeal to the public to be aware of the danger of bogus letters. They said two people in the region had recently lost significant sums of money with one of them actually ending up losing his own property as a result. Police warned the public never to give out bank details to anyone offering to give them significant lottery winni
Apr 4, 2009, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Poll: 58% of N.C. residents tried lotteryNews Story
Survey finds N.C. play similar to national average; no increase in gambling addiction seen Even in Bible-Belt North Carolina, a majority of Tar Heel adults have played the state lottery, according to a study released Tuesday. Fifty-eight percent of North Carolina adults have played the lottery since it was created three years ago, said the first poll conducted for the N.C. Education Lottery Commission. North Carolina's rate of lottery play is similar to the national average, even though
Mar 25, 2009, 1:42 am - Lottery News