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Massachusetts
BOSTON — As state officials try to balance this year's $38.4 billion budget in the face of under-performing tax revenues, one source is bringing in more money than it did last year: the Massachusetts Lottery. In a presentation to the Lottery Commission on Tuesday morning, Executive Director Michael
New Jersey
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A woman and her seven adult children stepped forward Friday to claim a $429.6 million Powerball jackpot and said they have plans to tithe to their church, go on a family vacation and help their community. But mostly they're just still letting it
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Massachusetts
BOSTON — State Lottery revenues are "running a little bit over" projections, and officials at the money-making agency plan to consider readjusting their forecasts in April. Projected to produce $962 million in annual profits to supplement municipal budgets, the state-run gambling agency has clocked $686.3 million in net
California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luck may have run out for the winner of a California Lottery jackpot: The person has apparently let $63 million slip through their fingers. Nobody showed up at a state lottery office by 5 p.m. Thursday with the ticket or submitted a verified claim for the
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — The results of social media and digital advertising campaigns suggest there would be a market for an online Massachusetts Lottery program, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg told lawmakers Tuesday. Testifying on her office's budget before the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, Goldberg said Lottery holiday commercials reached
America
Ka-ching! Powerball's get-rich-quick mania seized America this week. And the biggest winner of the multistate numbers game was — drumroll, please — Uncle Sam. Powerball is a government-sponsored gambling racket in 44 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The feds automatically skim 25 percent off
crime
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs an undetectable software program in the computers that pick winning numbers so he can know them in advance. He enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. They enrich themselves for years
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — Few people are lucky enough to win $1 million in the lottery. But one Massachusetts woman has now done it twice. Constance Carpenito, of Stoneham, recently won a $1 million prize on a scratch ticket in the $10,000,000 Diamond Millionaire instant game.
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