DES MOINES – The Iowa Lottery Board voted 5-0 Thursday to givepreliminary approval for a $50.3 million contract withGeorgia-based Scientific Gaming to provide online gaming servicesto the Iowa Lottery for up to 10 years.

DES MOINES — The Iowa Lottery Board voted 5-0 today to givepreliminary approval for a $50.3 million contract withGeorgia-based Scientific Gaming to provide online gaming servicesto the Iowa Lottery for up to 10 years.

DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Lottery Board voted 5-0 today togive preliminary approval for a $50.3 million contract withGeorgia-based Scientific Gaming to provide online gaming servicesto the Iowa Lottery for up to 10 years.

Someone out there is $1 million richer. But do they know it? The winning lottery ticket was sold March 6 from Huskey’s in Irwin. The ticket matched the first five numbers (10, 29, 33, 41, and 59) but not the Powerball.

HELENA (AP) — The Montana Lottery says three large prizes won in March Powerball drawings remain unclaimed and the clock is ticking on the six-month time frame in which they can be claimed.

The religionist bullies of the Family Council have sent a letter to several retail chains (not including Walmart or Kroger) attempting to warn them off installing lottery vending machines. They proclaim that the “tide is turning” on the lottery and they expect the legislature to outlaw the vending machines in 2011. I’m not so sure. An overwhelming majority approved the lottery. Its popularity …

The Illinois Lottery is taking steps to become the first state to completely privatize the management of their state lottery. The state has received bids on management of the system and has narrowed down the finalists to 2 companies: Northstar Lottery Group and Camelot Illinois. Both companies will give a public presentation on their lottery proposals next week. The winner will be chosen during …

The Arkansas Lottery Commission’s awarding of compensatory time to exempt employees deviates from the practice elsewhere in state government, the state’s personnel administrator said in her review of the lottery’s personnel policies.

The Ohio Lottery should reconstitute itself as a “quasi-public corporation” to free itself from red tape and return more money to public schools, the state auditor said yesterday.

Lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.