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Retired Ashville Fire Department Worker Wins Powerball Millions
Frank Griffin, of Asheville, bought gas, and chose to purchase some lottery tickets with his $5 change. He left the computer pick the numbers for him, and won the Powerball jackpot of $141 million.
Griffin, a retired firefighter, with more than 20 years of service claimed his prize in Raleigh on Monday afternoon. He and his [...]
New York Lottery Enters Powerball Drawing
New York Lottery this week entered the multistate Powerball drawing and Lottery Officials are eager to see if this will result in the state coffers being boosted. New York State started selling tickets on Sunday and the jackpot has already passed $115 million. It is not yet known whether there was any winner from [...]
Mega Millions hits Iowa
Iowa may be headed for some pretty exciting changes soon. The lawmakers are considering the expansion of the casino gambling options; this will make a big difference to the state.
However, there has already been one recent change in a form of gambling which has taken place in the state of Iowa. That is, the [...]
“Points for Prizes” Rewards Announced by Arkansas Lottery
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has always given players good value with their instant lottery tickets and they have recently introduced a new program called Points for Prizes.
Players are now able to earn points when visiting the lottery’s website and entering their non-winning instant scratch-off tickets. The points can then be redeemed for exciting merchandise.
Arkansas Scholarship [...]
TinBu’s Online Lottery Channel Features Live Powerball Lottery Drawings
Powerball is America’s most popular lotto game with lottery draws taking place every Wednesday and Saturday night. After each draw there are tens of millions of players looking for Powerball results.
TinBu, the leading provider of lottery data to online media groups have entered into an agreement with Powerball to stream live Powerball drawings on the [...]
President of Thailand Worried About Online Lottery
Abhisit Verjjajiva, the Prime Minister of Thailand, reported that he is very worried about the effect that the proposed online lottery could have on the nation’s society.
The problem is, however, that the Government Lottery Office signed a contract with Loxley GTech Technology in 2005 and is under contractual obligation to allow online lottery. Sales [...]
Intralot Aims for US Market
Another gambling company is hoping that legislation will change in the United States in the near future and is gearing itself up for that time. Intralot, clearly the largest gambling provider in Greece, and known as the second largest gambling systems operator in the world, has purchased a 35% stake in US gaming provider, CyberArts.
The [...]
Many New Millionaires in 2009 as a result of UK Lottery
Some of biggest prizes in the entire history of the UK Lottery were paid out in 2009 and a further 130 people became brand new millionaires as a result of the Lottery.
Seven lucky IT workers from Liverpool as well as a couple from south Wales each won a 45.5 million GBP share of the Euromillions [...]
Virginia Lottery hopes to Introduce Online Gaming
Since there recession there has been an enormous decline in the sale of lottery tickets and in an effort to find new ways of recovering from a slump in sales, the Virginia Lottery has decided to try and turn to technology in order to increase their profits.
In an announcement made to WTKR News, the Virginia [...]
Interactive Lottery Player Wins £850,000 in UK National Lottery
One must marvel at the technology that is used today, although it is something that most of us take for granted. The fact that people can choose their numbers and buy lottery tickets online, or via their mobile devices, is certainly a change from the time when the only way a lottery could be won [...]