Archive for August 22nd, 2008
N.C. oversight committee renews debate over how much lottery benefits education (The Rock Hill Herald)
RALEIGH, N.C. — A group responsible for helping to oversee North Carolina’s lottery renewed a debate Friday about how much the games benefit education.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Woman prepares for 9 months before claiming $8.8M lottery jackpot (Lottery Post)
Backcountry resident Lynn Hagerbrant knew she’d hit the jackpot just a day after she bought her winning lottery ticket — yet she waited nearly nine months to cash in on the $8.8 million prize.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Clerk charged with embezzling lottery tickets (Greensboro News & Record)
GRAHAM - A Burlington man is charged with embezzlement after more than 3,000 scratch-off lottery tickets are stolen from an Alamance County convenience store. On June 10, the store’s general manager reported that 110 books of scratch-off lottery tickets were missing from the convenience store on Graham Hopedale Road. After […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Double lottery winners claim to have formula for picking numbers (The Herald)
A WOMAN and her accountant husband who claims he has developed a formula for choosing lottery numbers have each claimed jackpots - twice. Verlyn and Judith Adamson claimed two $350,000 (£187,000) jackpots on Monday because each held a winning ticket in Wisconsin’s SuperCash draw last Saturday.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Man cashes Idaho Lottery scratch ticket for $250K (KTVB Boise)
A Wyoming man is celebrating today after winning $250,000 on an Idaho Lottery scratch game. Raymond Moore lives 120 miles from the Huskey’s Store in Swan Valley, Idaho, but he’s says the trip is certainly worth it.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Panel questions N.C. lottery’s benefits (The Charlotte Observer)
An oversight committee expressed concern today that the N.C. lottery’s benefits to education could be overstated. Members of the Lottery Oversight Committee said that, in at least some cases, state lawmakers and Gov. Mike Easley appear to have used lottery revenue only to replace education money that would have come from […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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AG Says He Can Defend Lottery, Adoption Measures (KTHV Little Rock)
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says he’s confident a proposed constitutional amendment to create a state-run lottery and an initiated act banning unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children could survive any court challenges.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Lottery adds new five-digit daily game (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The Pennsylvania Lottery is adding a new game, Quinto, to its lineup of mid-day and evening drawings
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Ark. AG: Lottery, other measures can survive suits (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Friday he’s confident a proposed constitutional amendment to create a state-run lottery and an initiated act banning unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children could survive any court challenges.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Has Couple Found Formula To Win Lottery? (NBC 11 Bay Area)
Man believes he has figured out how to win the lottery.
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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