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The Virginia Lottery is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was created in 1987 when Virginians voted in a statewide referendum in favor of a state lottery. The first ticket was sold on September 20, 1988. All profits from Virginia Lottery ticket sales go to K-12 public education, as required by Virginia's constitution.
Decades of Dollars (DoD) was an American lottery game that began as a multi-state game in January 2011, though by its end, only the Virginia Lottery offered it. [1] Georgia and Kentucky joined Virginia in launching DoD; Arkansas joined in May 2011. (DoD replaced Win for Life in Kentucky; WFL ended in 2014 as a Virginia-only game.)
RICHMOND, Va. (DC News Now) — Between them, three people from Northern Virginia recently racked up more than $3 million in lottery winnings. “I’m so happy! I nearly cried!” Jose Marquina ...
The lottery department’s approval came nine days after Petersburg officially became Virginia’s fifth casino-host city. It joins a list that includes Bristol, Danville, Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The winner in Virginia added a $1 Power Play to the lucky ticket, which doubled what would have been a $1 million prize, according to the Virginia Lottery. Officials advise winners to sign their ...
Lottery games with "lifetime" prizes, known by names such as Cash4Life, Lucky for Life, and Win for Life, comprise two types of United States lottery games in which the top prize is advertised as a lifetime annuity; unlike annuities with a fixed period (such as 25 years), lifetime annuities often pay (sometimes for decades) until the winner's death.
The odds of winning a prize in the game are 1 in 3.55. King George County is on the Virginia-Maryland state line about 60 miles south of Washington, D.C. Many people can gamble or play games of ...
Lotteries in the United States did not always have sterling reputations. One early lottery in particular, the National Lottery, which was passed by Congress for the beautification of Washington, D.C., and was administered by the municipal government, was the subject of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision – Cohens v. Virginia. [7]