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After almost two weeks of remaining silent, the winners of the $3.3 million Arizona Lottery "The Pick" jackpot claimed their winnings. News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/275562

Starting Sunday, May 4, Connecticut Lottery players will have a new midday game to play featuring a playing card theme is proving to be very popular throughout North America. News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/275348

Since 2009, the North Carolina Education Lottery has teamed up with local authorities for what they call a "Player Protection Campaign," aimed at caching cheating lottery clerks. https://www.lotterypost.com/news/275025

Surveillance cameras captured amazing video of a woman who barely escaped with her life when a truck crashed into a grocery store in the Park Manor neighborhood Friday afternoon. See news story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/274835

Authorities in Colorado are seeing a new twist to the lottery scam that has been going on for years. See news story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/274833

Celebrity performance artist David Garibaldi shows off the Minnesota Lottery's new logo, as the institution celebrated its 25th birthday Thursday. See news story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/274775

See news story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/274271 Sunday, April 6 marks the start of the Wisconsin Lottery's first new lottery game in over 10 years.

Instead of sending foreign lottery letters and checks directly to you from Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica or Mexico, more and more, scammers are sending big batches of letters in a box, to middlemen in the United States.

A new Missouri Lottery Draw Game offers players three games with nine chances to win on a single ticket and a top prize of $250,000 cash. Tickets are on sale Sunday, February 23, 2014.

An "interesting" promotional video from the Minnesota Lottery for the new multi-state All or Nothing game.

Bettina Still and her son Jonathan have played lottery games together for years and will split the $61 million prize from Tennessee's first Mega Millions jackpot win.

Gillian and Adrian Bayford, who claimed a £148 million EuroMillions jackpot in August, 2012, said the big prize wouldn't change them. They were wrong.

Georgia Lottery officials say Ira Curry, 56, of Stone Mountain, Ga., has come forward as one of the two who struck it rich in the massive Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Dec. 17, 2013.

See news story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/269897 The near-record estimated $636 million Mega Millions jackpot was won by 2 tickets sold in California and Georgia. The final jackpot tally will probably end up being a bit higher, but not quite a new world record.

Todd Northrop, Founder of Lottery Post (www.lotterypost.com) was featured on the CNN New Day program in a segment about the Mega Millions lottery drawing on December 17, 2013.

La Fleur's interviews Iowa Lottery chief Terry Rich about Powerball's new Pro Football Hall of Fame promotion.

Advertisement for the Powerball Pro Football Hall of Fame promotion.

David Williams is in the hospital recovering, after he says he was brutally beaten and robbed.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/266589 Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announces the continuation of a the Cowboys partnership with the Texas Lottery.

After a string of game changes and new games that stretches back a year to when the My3 game was introduced, the Illinois Lottery revealed its latest new game: Hit or Miss.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/266068 The grateful winner of a Mega Millions lottery prize has promised to give $10,000 to the clerk who sold him a winning ticket so her family can take trip to their home of South Korea.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/265966 Dee Dee Moore, the woman who was convicted of murdering Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, said in an interview from prison that she was not guilty and blamed her legal team for her guilty verdict.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/244858 Maryland Lottery press conference on April 10, 2012, to announce three anonymous winners from Maryland who will share the record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot with two other winning tickets from Kansas and Illinois. The Maryland winners are three public school employees who were playing the lottery together for the first time.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/258912 The Passaic, New Jersey, man who won the $338 million Powerball lottery says he felt "pure joy" at winning the huge jackpot, but has no idea yet what he will do with all the money. Note: We apologize for the poor audio quality throughout much of the video. It seems the NJ Lottery camera person was covering the microphone for some of the press conference, and they did not use an external microphone.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/261158 Facing eviction, an Illinois man found a winning lottery ticket worth $4.85 million in his cookie jar.