Archive for July 2nd, 2008
Florida agrees to add Powerball to lottery options (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Lottery officials say Florida will add the national Powerball game to its portfolio in January. Gov. Charlie Crist applauded the decision Wednesday, saying it would maximize sales opportunities for the state’s 20-year-old lottery and its 13,500 vendors.
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Lottery officials to present annual dividend (KBCI Boise)
Lottery officials say this will be the fifth consecutive year the Idaho Lottery has returned an increase in its annual dividend amount to the people of Idaho, topping last year’s record mark of $34 million.
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JACKPOT?: Lottery looking for ad agency (The Herald News)
The Illinois Lottery has issued a Request for Information for a General Market Advertising Agency.
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State lottery would help fund schools (Las Vegas Sun)
Wed, Jul 2, 2008 (2:02 a.m.) I’m old enough to remember George Carlin uttering the “seven banned words.” I’m trying to get a seven-letter word that’s apparently verboten in print. That word is “lottery.”
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South Carolina lottery tops expectations by $13m (The State)
South Carolina lottery officials say they think the games brought in about $266 million for education this year. That’s $13 million more than the goal set by the Board of Economic Advisors. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Wednesday that total lottery sales have topped $6.1 billion since the games started in 2002. Lottery […]
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South Carolina lottery tops expectations by $13m (WIS News 10 Columbia)
South Carolina lottery officials say they think the games brought in about $266 million for education this year.
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Baldwinsville couple wins $1M from lottery (The Post-Standard)
Onondaga County’s latest lottery millionaire at first thought her scratch off ticket was just another loser. But when Charlene Gould’s husband, Scott, looked at the New York Poker ticket, he knew two pair - jacks and threes - beat the dealer’s hand.
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Bolivar man wins Dodge Viper in Lottery promotion (Buffalo Reflex)
A Bolivar man is the third and final winner of a 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe plus $500 in the Missouri Lottery’s “Muscle Up” promotion. William “Bill” Malloy’s entry was selected to win the grand prize in a drawing held June 19.
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Delight for new Postcode Lottery boss (Daily Record)
THE new boss of the People’s Postcode Lottery in Scotland yesterday spoke of his delight at taking the post.
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No vote on sports lottery (The News Journal)
Two University of Delaware economics professors breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after a bill to institute a sports lottery was not included as a way for the state of Delaware to balance a $217 million budget deficit.
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