by - June 1, 2016 12:10 pm
With a month remaining in the fiscal year, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery surpassed last year’s total cash sales over the Memorial Day weekend, the Lottery announced Wednesday. The gain will…
by - June 15, 2015 6:36 pm
The Arkansas Lottery Scholarship program may be struggling to make ends meet, but in the the past five years the 43 Arkansans who were million dollar winners through the program…
by - August 20, 2014 5:52 pm
The Arkansas Lottery Commission voted Wednesday (Aug. 20) to close its three regional claim centers in Springdale, Jonesboro and Camden, a savings measure expected to free as much as $381,000…
by - July 27, 2014 4:47 pm
Lottery ticket sales improved during the recent fiscal year in Arkansas Lottery satellite offices in Springdale, Jonesboro and Camden, but it is still a losing business proposition to have three…
by - July 20, 2014 5:16 pm
We shall watch and see if the move to relocate the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Redemption Center from Springdale to Fayetteville results in a firestorm of protests in the political world…
by - April 20, 2014 6:18 pm
The Arkansas Lottery Commission and its Director Bishop Woosley, in an effort to make a big correction in financial stability, may have recently caused the lottery agency to become an…
by - August 11, 2013 3:46 pm
The next step in the embarrassing theft scheme unearthed at the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery looks like an outdoor fracas between two drunken red-necks. Lots of yelling or posturing for action….
by - April 29, 2013 5:03 pm
More than 10,000 new Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship recipients were notified Monday of their awards from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, according to a department news release. Based on…
by - April 26, 2013 4:23 pm
An Ole Miss law professor came Friday (April 26) to Fayetteville to analyze Arkansas' long legal history of gambling. Ronald Rychlak noted the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is the last success…
by - March 4, 2013 6:00 pm
More than 12,000 lottery-funded scholarships were issued to residents of Benton and Washington counties, with more than 6,600 such scholarships awarded to residents in Crawford and Sebastian counties. The Arkansas…
by - December 10, 2012 4:07 pm
Scholarships funded during the more than three years from the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery total more than $300 million, according to a program figures released Monday (Dec. 10). Lottery sales began…
by - November 28, 2012 3:44 pm
Non-traditional students tend to have higher retention rates and hang on to academic scholarships. Yet they receive the smallest slices of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery pie, a trend that is…
by - November 28, 2012 3:27 pm
While the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship Program posted record earnings of more than $474 million for the fiscal year ended June 30 – $10 million more than the previous year –…
by - August 7, 2012 8:21 pm
The state’s higher education chief said that a new initiative aims to bring older students back to college, while at the same time new data could help lawmakers shape future…
by - July 30, 2012 4:08 pm
Shane Broadway, director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, left Little Rock early on July 17 to promote the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, the program funded mostly by the…
by - July 11, 2012 6:28 pm
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery says it should produce about $97.58 million for scholarships from its net revenues for the fiscal year that ended June 30. Two million dollars of the…
