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Man Picks $1 Million Lottery Ticket Out Of TrashNews Story
For the last couple of months, the gray-haired old man has been a regular morning sight for passersby, his arm thrust deep into the trash barrel outside the White Hen Pantry on Main Street as he fishes for discarded lottery tickets.But lately 83-year-old Edward St. John has been doing his best to disappear.As he sifted through the throwaways in front of the convenience store earlier this week, St. John picked out a $1 million winner, and now he's trying to keep a low profile. The winner was on o
Oct 15, 2005, 4:36 pm - Lottery News

Former Texas Lottery Director is Bush's Pick for Supreme CourtNews Story
Harriet Miers proved to be a tough, no-nonsense administrator during her five years heading the Texas Lottery Commission, firing two executive directors to stamp out scandal but leaving unexpectedly amid lagging sales and player interest.President Bush tapped Miers on Monday for the Supreme Court, a nomination that prompted closer scrutiny of Miers' years in Texas as a private attorney, a member of the Dallas City Council and chairwoman of the three-member commission that oversees the state's lo
Oct 3, 2005, 3:07 pm - Lottery News

GTECH makes political donation days after gambling contract awardedNews Story
Six days after winning a state contract, the company Pennsylvania chose to run its computer system for slot machines gave $50,000 to a national nonprofit that raises money for Democratic governors including Gov. Ed Rendell, the group's finance chair.GTECH, a Rhode Island lottery company, has given $481,267 to the Democratic Governors' Association since 2000, according to a political watchdog group. But the payment March 8 had nothing to do with the $6.3 million a year contract announced by the
Sep 22, 2005, 11:18 am - Lottery News

Anti-lottery group considers legal challenge to N.C. LotteryNews Story
There might yet be a legal fight over the new North Carolina lottery.A spokesman for Citizens United Against the Lottery, a coalition formed to fight its creation, said Monday that the group is weighing a lawsuit challenging how the lottery was approved. It's in distinct consideration, said Bob Rosser, a spokesman for the group, whose board includes former legislator Chuck Neely, former UNC system presidents Bill Friday and C.D. Spangler Jr., and Capitol Broadcasting Co. chief Jim Goodmon. We
Sep 20, 2005, 8:50 pm - Lottery News

Discarded lottery ticket offers lesson of faith, optimismNews Story
It's last Wednesday, and Sharon Parker, a lottery regular from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, wins $16 in the Powerball.It's not exactly enough to retire on, so Sharon does what lottery players do: She plows the $16 back into Thursday's Big Four at a convenience store downtown Pittsburgh near Kaufmann's.That night, when she calls her mother for the numbers, it turns out to be another loss for Sharon, so she tears the tickets in half and drops them in a trash can at Fifth and Smithfield.Back home in Sw
Sep 20, 2005, 11:09 am - Lottery News

While N.C. lottery bill sits, backers and critics waitNews Story
Last week, Matt Jameson fumed after reading about the North Carolina General Assembly balking at passing a state lottery. One vote short? What kind of nonsense is that? They could pass a lottery if they want to; this is nothing but politics, he said.This week Jameson has resolve to vote against any lawmaker who fails to support a lottery. Jameson plays the lottery in Virginia periodically and said he'd rather spend his money in North Carolina than out-of-state. It's ridiculous. Every poll I've
Aug 17, 2005, 9:21 pm - Lottery News

Record Euro Millions lottery winner goes into hidingNews Story
A mother-of-six who won a US$136 million ( 77 million) jackpot in one of the biggest lottery wins in history was in hiding last night.Dolores McNamara, 50, fled her family home in County Limerick, Ireland, at the weekend after receiving a torrent of media interest following her extraordinary win.The housewife and mother of six had been sitting in her local pub at Garryowen on Friday night when the winning numbers of the EuroMillions lottery appeared on television.Her son Dean, 15, said, When th
Aug 1, 2005, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery insists computers are better than ball drawingsNews Story
Still smarting from the sting of a massive security scandal, Indiana Lottery officials are making a claim that computerized drawings actually improve security over traditional lottery drawings conducted with a mechanical ball machine.Hoosier Lottery winning numbers are no longer determined by white balls plucked from a whirling mass inside a wire cage.Now, winning numbers for Hoosier Lotto and daily games are picked in an office room, from a computer inside a black box secured with red, tamper-e
Jul 29, 2005, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery increases funds for securityNews Story
People wouldn't play the Hoosier Lottery if they didn't think they could win.That's why the William C. Foreman case is so troubling for those who run the state's lottery.For months, officials have been trying to repair the damage done when Foreman, a former lottery investigator, was accused in November of obtaining insider information to help friends get a $1 million scratch-off ticket. Prosecutors say he had his friends buy every ticket in a store where he knew there was a winner.Lottery offici
Jul 29, 2005, 1:33 pm - Lottery News

Schwarzenegger to replace Calif. lottery directorNews Story
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's aides said Tuesday that he is dumping troubleshooter Chon Gutierrez, the acting lottery director who engineered California's participation with the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game, and then sent an adviser to spy on Democrats who are trying to halt ticket sales.Democrat lawmakers and an anti-gambling group that sued the lottery took a break from their political bombardment of the Republican governor and hailed his decision.The governor's office has
Jul 28, 2005, 2:15 pm - Lottery News