LotteriesOnline Legislation
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States Zealously Guarding Turf On Internet Gambling [sub req'd] (5/2/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Like a sleeping giant who has been awakened, state lotteries are beginning to aggressively assert their authority to regulate Internet gambling....
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Retailers Raising Alarm Over Online Lotteries [sub req] (3/7/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Chastened by recent legal developments, U.S. lottery retailers are ramping up lobbying efforts to oppose expansion of online lottery sales.
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States Begin the Race Pitting Lotteries Versus Casinos (1/16/2012)
(USA) -- Being first is important and the nation’s two most prominent gaming states are engaged in an important race. Given the opinion issued by the Department of...
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Lucky for Missouri? Changes to Federal Law Pave the Way for Online Lottery Sales (1/15/2012)
(Missouri) -- It's a fantasy many of us have indulged in: Imaging what we would do if we were to strike it rich overnight with a big lottery win. I'll own up to...
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New York prepares to bet on online lottery games (1/15/2012)
(New York) -- The New York Division of the Lottery is free to begin offering adults the chance to play lottery games online, but it is looking for guidance from state...
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State to consider online lottery sales (1/14/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Steve Grossman, state treasurer, is forming a task force to consider whether Massachusetts should institute online sales of lottery tickets following...
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New York Gaming
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Bodega Resistance to Online Lottery Push (4/26/2012)
(New York) -- The director of the New York State lottery said a few months ago he had cleared hurdles in his quest to sell lottery tickets over the Internet, but now...
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New York's racetracks, lottery show revenue increase (1/30/2012)
(New York) -- Despite a weakened economy and high unemployment, gambling in New York continues to soar as the state debates whether to legalize casinos, according to...
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Illinois Online
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Illinois sells lottery online as jackpot soars (3/31/2012)
(Illinois) -- With a record $540 million Mega Millions jackpot in play, Illinois picked the right week to become the first state in the nation to sell lottery tickets...
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Illinois sells lottery online as jackpot soars (3/29/2012)
(Illinois) -- With a record $540 million Mega Millions jackpot in play, Illinois picked the right week to become the first state in the nation to sell lottery tickets...
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Hundreds buy lottery tickets online in Illinois (3/26/2012)
(Illinois) -- At 7:03 a.m. Sunday — just three minutes after Illinois officially became the first state to sell lottery tickets online — the first ticket was...
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Illinois becomes first state to sell lottery tickets online (3/26/2012)
(Illinois) -- Illinois became the first state selling lottery tickets online today. Lottery officials say online sales make the games of chance more available and will...
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Officials: La. online lottery unlikely (3/26/2012)
(Illinois) -- Illinois entered a new frontier Sunday by becoming the first state to sell lottery tickets over the Internet. Like Louisiana, state government in Illinois...
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Online Illinois lottery tickets net $15K first day (3/26/2012)
(Illinois) -- Illinois Lottery officials say the first day of online lottery tickets brought in more than $15,000 in sales. On Sunday Illinois became the first state to...
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Buying lottery tickets online (3/22/2012)
(Illinois) -- Coming this Sunday the Illinois Lottery will become the first state in the whole United States that will now be selling their lottery tickets online.
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Illinois Lottery becomes first to sell online tickets (3/22/2012)
(Illinois) -- There is a sea of change coming to state lottery players, and it's starting in Illinois. It will become the first state in the nation to sell lottery...
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Online lottery sales in Illinois set to start Sunday (3/22/2012)
(Illinois) -- Lottery tickets can be purchased online beginning March 25, making Illinois the first state in the country to sell lottery tickets on the Internet.
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Delaware Online
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Gambling expansion returns to Delaware legislative agenda (3/29/2012)
(Delaware) -- The Illinois Lottery this week became the first to sell its games online. On the initial day of online sales, $15,000 in tickets were sold.
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Indiana Online
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Hoosier Lottery tracking online games in Illinois (3/27/2012)
(Indiana) -- Indiana lottery officials are keeping their eye on an Illinois effort to sell lottery tickets online.
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Lottery to take look at online sales (3/27/2012)
(Indiana) -- Hoosiers could win millions of dollars with the click of a mouse if Indiana follows in the footsteps of its Illinois counterpart, which began offering...
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Canada Online
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Online Poker Disappoints For Canadian Lotteries [sub req'd] (3/22/2012)
(British Columbia) -- The launch of online poker has proven to be more headache than moneymaker for Canada’s provincial lottery corporations, according to an early...
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Ontario to gamble on lotteries, online gaming (2/6/2012)
(Ontario) -- Ontario is loosening its restrictions on buying lottery tickets and online gambling in a bid to cash in on the multimillion-dollar industry.
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Oregon Gaming
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Oregon Lottery needs more focus on problem gambling, new report says (3/22/2012)
(Oregon) -- Oregon's state-run lottery needs to focus more on problem gambling -- especially among youth -- and less on profits as it enters the coming world of...
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Illinois Gaming
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Lotteries Look To Illinois Internet Launch [sub req'd] (3/21/2012)
(Illinois) -- Sunday’s upcoming launch of Internet lottery sales in Illinois will offer a template for others to follow as state lotteries grapple with a new...
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Maine Gaming
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Lawmakers to take up bill that would allow online sale of lottery tickets (3/15/2012)
(Maine) -- Lawmakers will soon consider a bill that would allow the state to sell lottery tickets over the Internet, a move supporters believe could increase revenue and...
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Ontario Gaming
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Massive gambling and lottery shakeup coming (3/13/2012)
(Ontario) -- Cities — including Hamilton — will help shape the future of gambling in their communities during a massive shakeup of gaming operations in...
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Online lotto ticket sales, expanded supermarket sales, new casinos for Ontario (3/12/2012)
(Ontario) -- Ontario residents will be able to buy lottery tickets online and at their local Wal-Mart and play the odds at a new Toronto-area casino under a six-year...
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Would you buy a lottery ticket online? (3/12/2012)
(Ontario) -- The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., will launch a secure internet gaming website by late 2012, according to a report released Monday that plans a major...
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Massachusetts Online
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Massachusetts Lottery Looks Online [sub req'd] (3/5/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Another big gambling debate is brewing in Massachusetts, this time over whether the state’s lottery should take the plunge into online wagering.
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Mass. to consider online lottery sales (1/13/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- The Massachusetts State Lottery may be headed to the Internet. Steve Grossman, state treasurer, is forming a task force to consider whether...
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Georgia Gaming
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A lottery-fueled gambling complex in Norcross? (3/1/2012)
(Georgia) -- This just arrived from Greg Bluestein and the Associated Press. Charlotte Nash, the chairman of the Gwinnett County Commission, said she is “intrigued...
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Gwinnett gambling complex draws backers in state House (3/1/2012)
(Georgia) -- Three Republican committee chairmen are among a group of state House members pushing the Georgia Lottery board to expand gambling in the state by approving...
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Developer takes big gamble on $1 billion Georgia complex (2/29/2012)
(Georgia) -- Develop Dan O'Leary already has several key pieces in place for a $1 billion lottery gambling facility in suburban Atlanta: A contract on a 122-acre...
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Maryland Gaming
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Proposed National Harbor casino worries D.C. lottery board (2/28/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A billion-dollar casino proposed last week by Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker has renewed concerns that D.C.'s own lottery...
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Maryland Planning Online Lottery Sales (2/2/2012)
(Maryland) -- Soon you won’t have to go to the gas station or convenience store to buy lottery tickets in Maryland. The state lottery is planning to introduce an...
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Washington, DC Online
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D.C. officials grapple with unraveling lottery contract (2/28/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- With online gambling off the table for now, D.C. officials are grappling with how to rectify the questionable local business certification of a firm...
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Disputes in Washington End Online Gambling Program (2/16/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Last year, the District of Columbia seemed to hold all the aces in the high-stakes race among states to offer Internet gambling. Its program,...
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D.C. Repeals Internet Gambling Law (2/7/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The District of Columbia dropped out of the race to become the first governmental entity to operate Internet gambling on Tuesday as the city council...
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District of Columbia Set To Fold On Internet Gambling [sub req'd] (2/2/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A key legislative committee has voted to block the D.C. Lottery’s plan to launch the first government-run online casino in the United States,...
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Internet gambling rejected by D.C. Council panel (2/2/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A D.C. Council committee voted Wednesday to repeal the city’s Internet gambling program, sending the measure to a full council vote that could...
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No online gaming rush for DC (1/29/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The District of Columbia Council remains bitterly divided on how, or even if, the nation’s capital should have the first government-run online...
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Internet Gambling's Long, Strange Trip in D.C. Continues (1/25/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Even though Internet gambling has been legal in the District since early 2011, it remains but an idea that hasn't yet become reality. Ongoing...
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BLOG: DC moves closer to online poker [1st Item] (1/24/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- You may recall in January of last year, Mayor Vincent Gray approved a bill to legalize online poker in the Nation’s Capital. This all sort of...
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BLOG: Inspector General report on D.C. lottery contract: a reader’s guide (1/23/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The D.C. Inspector General’s investigation into the long-running lottery procurement saga ended Friday with the submission of a 19-page report...
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Ohio Gaming
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Ohio Bill Clears Way For VLTs (2/20/2012)
(Ohio) -- Ohio lawmakers want to roll out thousands of video lottery terminals at temporary racinos by this fall as plans for a series of four, massive urban casinos...
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Editorial: Paying for addiction (1/8/2012)
(Ohio) -- The Ohio Lottery Commission wants to allow horse racetracks to stay open all night, so that gamblers can feed money into slot machines 24/7. The legislative...
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Connecticut Online
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Online Gambling Forum Planned (1/30/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Some local lawmakers have scheduled what they are calling an informational forum on online gaming. State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a Democrat who represents...
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Lawmakers Hedge Bets on Online Gambling (1/26/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is betting that online gambling “is inevitable” in Connecticut and would raise significant revenue for state coffers....
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Online Business
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U.S. Lotteries Edge Toward Internet Gambling [sub req] (1/23/2012)
(USA) -- State lotteries are expected to tread cautiously in exploring Internet expansion in 2012, despite scoring a major legal lift from a Department of Justice memo...
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Washington Gaming
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WSU reports results of state gambling survey (1/23/2012)
(Washington) -- Among Washington adults who gamble, the most popular form of gaming in the past 12 months has been the state lottery, followed by tribal casinos. Sixty-...
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Other News
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Hoosier Lottery seeking contractors to boost its performance (5/16/2012)
(Indiana) -- The Indiana State Lottery Commission is seeking help from private firms to help improve Hoosier Lottery performance and increase gaming income to the state.
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Oregon Lottery set to abandon its 'ORcade' plans, rethink new website (5/16/2012)
(Oregon) -- The ill-fated attempt to move the Oregon Lottery into the modern digital age, known as "The ORcade," is kaput. The name is history. The website...
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7 Eggsmart workers win $21M lotto jackpot (5/15/2012)
(Toronto) -- It was sunny side up for some restaurant workers in Durham Region east of Toronto as they picked up a $21.4-million lottery prize.
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Lotto winner invests green in greens (5/14/2012)
(Iowa) -- Wally Markham isn't just a member of his local country club. Since winning a recent lottery jackpot, he owns it. Markham, 65, won the Iowa Lottery Hot...
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Lottery's repeat winners (5/13/2012)
(Florida) -- Most people who play the lottery won't win more than a few bucks. But there are people in South Florida who win big money almost every week.
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Lottery Row fight leads to new rules (5/9/2012)
(Oregon) -- A showdown looms on Oregon State Lottery rules that enabled a retail strip center opposite Jantzen Beach mall to morph into a vice-ridden "Lottery Row...
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Lottery winner Craig Henshaw paid a big price for his millions (5/8/2012)
(Toronto) -- The shock of winning $21.4 million in a lottery was nothing compared to the jolts Craig Henshaw felt later. They were not pleasant.
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Gambling bill set to pass first reading (5/7/2012)
(New Zealand) -- A gambling bill which gives councils and the public power to cut the number of poker machines in their area and ensures that gambling proceeds are fed...
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LETTER: Lottery tickets back other states' schools (5/6/2012)
(Louisiana) -- I just read the story of the guy from Clinton, who hit the Louisiana lottery and will divide a million bucks. I like having a current lottery ticket,...
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Many from state cross border to play (5/6/2012)
(Louisiana) -- With an unshakable disregard for the odds, Lucius Woods of Yazoo City, Miss., has driven back and forth to this dusty border town for five years now to...
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New York Lottery reports a record $2.9 billion annual profit (5/4/2012)
(New York) -- Those Mega Millions tickets that you and your co-workers bought in March made a big difference in the bottom line of the New York Lottery's annual...
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Lotto glitch misses leap year (5/4/2012)
(Saskatchewan) -- Officials who run the lottery games for western Canada, including Saskatchewan, say a glitch in one of their programs dealing with the leap year means...
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Winning lottery ticket plucked from trash lands two women in court fight (5/3/2012)
(Arkansas) -- When she plucked a winning lottery ticket out of the trash, Sharon Jones’ luck changed instantly. The $1 million (€760,000) prize let her pay...
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Milo woman wins $500,000 with Maine State Lottery scratch ticket (5/2/2012)
(Maine) -- Karen Meservey is on a hot streak. Last Thursday night, the 53-year-old Milo woman bagged $2,000 in bingo winnings at the Eagles Club in Brewer.
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Nearly $6M in Idaho lottery prizes unclaimed (5/2/2012)
(Idaho) -- Idaho lottery officials are still waiting to hear from the person who won a $1 million Powerball prize from the April 21 drawing with a ticket purchased in...
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Massachusetts State Lottery says it could make record-breaking profits (5/1/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- The Massachusetts State Lottery says that it's on track to set a profit record this year -- and that will be good news for city and town budgets.
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Michigan lottery winner who continued to collect food stamps gets new hearing date (5/1/2012)
(Michigan) -- A key court hearing has been postponed for a Detroit-area woman who authorities say continued to get food stamps despite winning a Michigan lottery jackpot.
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Woman who lost Arkansas lotto ticket entitled to $1 million (5/1/2012)
(Arkansas) -- An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it,...
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Louisiana holds the jackpot for many in Mississippi (4/29/2012)
(Louisiana) -- With an unshakable disregard for the odds, Lucius Woods of Yazoo City has driven back and forth to this dusty border town for five years now to play the...
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Lottery: Good or bad for state? (4/28/2012)
(Louisiana) -- With an unshakable disregard for the odds, Lucius Woods of Yazoo City has driven back and forth to this dusty border town for five years now to play the...
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