S.C. Lottery Director Says Little Prospect of Increased Lottery Sales

Posted on September 28th, 2011

According to the director of South Carolina’s education lottery sales have maxed out at $1.1 billion and an increase in lottery ticket sales is “not possible.” Even so the number of lottery funded scholarships continues to grow. During the 2010-11 academic year lottery funded scholarships grew to $287 million, up from $176 million in 2003 [...]

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Another Close Call !

Posted on June 21st, 2011

South Carolina has recently produced two of the strangest lottery stories so far this year. At the beginning of June James Dixon, a retired maintenance supervisor from Burlington North Carolina almost threw out a lottery ticket worth $200,000 dollars. Dixon pulled the lottery ticket from the trash after he realized he had checked the numbers [...]

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Man Runs Out of Gas, Buys Lottery Ticket and Wins $200,000 !

Posted on May 4th, 2011

What started out as a very bad day has left a South Carolina man Playing Online Bonus Slots dollars richer. Lottery officials say the unnamed many was on his way to the barber shop to get a haircut when he ran out of gas. Officials said the man ended up walking the rest of the [...]

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