Saturday, January 19, 2013

Iowa lottery sales rise 15 percent

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new state audit of the Iowa Lottery shows sales increased 14.6 percent over last year.

KCCI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/VBE5NNhttp://bit.ly/VBE5NN ) revenues for the lottery rose to $311 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30. The previous year revenues were $271.5 million.

Most of the increase was due to more sales of instant-scratch tickets, Powerball and Mega Millions tickets.

Scratch tickets brought in $188.8 million while Powerball brought in $57.9 million. Mega Millions sales were at $22.3 million.

More than $182 million was handed out in prizes.

Money deposited into the state's general fund totaled more than $76 million and $2.7 million was deposited into the veteran's trust fund.

The State Auditor's office released the annual audit report Friday.

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