Lottery to lose up to $12m on sweepstakes
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Today's drawing for the Massachusetts State Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes is likely to be bittersweet, except for the game's winners.
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By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 16--A casino in Wichita or elsewhere in Sedgwick County is a winner economically, but a loser once higher government spending and the cost of gambling addicts are factored in.
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Five years ago, Don J. Wims received a call telling him he had won $425,000 in a Spanish lottery. All he had to do, the voice on the other end of the line said, was pay $1,800 in taxes and handling fees and the money would be his.
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CLEVELAND -- Ever since she claimed to lose a winning lottery ticket, Elecia Battle's reputation has been on the ropes.
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Special lottery games have already raised Â£150m for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers have said.
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No tickets matched all six numbers in the latest WinFall drawing, raising the jackpot for Saturday&#39;s game to $2.9 million. Saturday&#39;s $2.
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A woman from Newfoundland purchased a lottery ticket worth &#36;17.7 million Saturday, after scolding her husband for buying the wrong ticket.
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Canadian police charge a retailer with fraudulently claiming a C$5.7m lottery prize, which customers had won.
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D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request...
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A Powerball ticket worth &#36;214.7 million &#151; the 10th largest lottery jackpot on record &#151; was sold in Delaware, but the winner had not yet come forward Monday, Powerball officials said.
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MIAMI - A nurse's aide who quit her job to take a cruise hit the jackpot.  Carol Baird won a $321,694 slot machine jackpot aboard a Carnival Cruise Lines ship off the U.S. Virgin Islands early Wednesday.
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A POTENTIAL Â£12 million tie-up between British internet gambling group Betfair and Australiaâs richest man, Kerry Packer, is under threat following last weekâs high-profile horse-racing arrests.
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MEGA MILLIONS, Dec. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Even though there was no jackpot winner in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, a lot of players still walked away winners. With nine different ways to win, a total of 357,329 tickets won prizes in the December 12 drawing.
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National Lottery players will be able to buy their tickets on their mobile phones, operator Camelot will announce.
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Slot manufacturer gets pummeled after releasing profit warning.
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The only winning ticket for a $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.
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BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.  Edward St.