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Powerball lottery jackpot soars to $290 millionNews Story
One player from Pennsylvania wins $1 million Power Play prizeLottery players from around the United States and the rest of the world will rush to grab tickets for Saturday's Powerball drawing, which will be the largest jackpot the game has seen since that fateful Christmas Day in 2002 when Jack Whittaker won the largest prize ever awarded to a single person $314,900,000.Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, 1,751,818 players across the nation won a total of more than $16.6
Oct 13, 2005, 12:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Record PA Match 6 lottery winner flees media attentionNews Story
Elmer Crone Jr., 69, might be happy to be Pennsylvania's newest millionaire.He is apparently not happy with all the attention the win has brought him, however.On Monday, the state Department of Revenue announced that Crone had won $5.9 million in the largest Match 6 payoff to date in the game's 16-month history.Crone lives in a secluded area in Carroll Twp. in one of three homes off a narrow cul-de-sac in a stand of hardwoods.A neighbor, who declined to give his name, said Crone packed up his ca
May 12, 2005, 1:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Numbers Drawing SuspicionsNews Story
The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.Yesterday, 5048 was the winning Big 4 number, as seen on Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Results Page. On Saturday, 8504 was the winning number, and 5408 hit on Friday.Also, 4508 hit in the Aug. 9 midday Big 4 drawing.The odds of any one four-digit number hitting on a given day are 1-in-10,000. Someone who regularly plays a boxed ticket -- that is, uses the same four digits, but rearranges them t
Aug 24, 2004, 8:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Employees to share store's lottery commissionsNews Story
Ten employees who work at the Cumberland Farms store in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania where the winning $213.2 million Powerball ticket was sold last month will share in the proceeds.Company officials would not say how much of the $400,000 lottery commission the store received would go to the workers. We feel that that's personal, general manager John J. Babbitts said at a news conference yesterday.Before several television cameras, Babbitts presented two charities - the Muscular Dystrophy
Jun 11, 2004, 2:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Five charged in Pennsylvania lottery ticket theftsNews Story
A mother and daughter and three other employees of a Scranton, Pennsylvania convenience market stole more than $62,000 last year by taking thousands of instant lottery tickets and cashing in winners, a Lackawanna County detective charged Thursday.The five were tripped up when the owner of Sdventh Avenue Kwik N Ezy Kwik Mart noticed a large discrepancy in lottery ticket sales during a year-end review of accounts, according to an arrest affidavit.They are charged with single counts of theft by unl
Feb 20, 2004, 6:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

One of these days, someone is going to win Super Six jackpotNews Story
It's been more than nine months since the last time anyone won the Pennsylvania Lottery's Super Six jackpot.This may well be the most elusive jackpot of all time.The last Super Six jackpot, won on Nov. 8, 2002, has been followed by 81 straight rollovers and now stands at $27.5 million. In the world of lottery jackpots, 20 rollovers is a long run. Eighty-one rollovers is astounding.Not that there isn't a perfectly reasonable mathematical explanation.It boils down to the fact that fewer people buy
Aug 21, 2003, 3:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery blames growth of skill games, lack of big jackpots for drop in profitsNews Story
The growing proliferation of so-called skill games at Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are having an impact on the lottery's ability to generate revenue to pay for programs for senior citizens, a lottery official told state lawmakers on Tuesday. Lottery executive director Drew Svitko told lawmakers skill games could lead to a $200 million decline in scratch-off ticket sales this year. That is a bigger loss than the $115 million hit last year. Svitko attributed the higher projection to the ri
Feb 18, 2020, 7:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Auditor general finds no fault with Pa. Lottery, but unusual wins remain unexplainedNews Story
Pennsylvania's Auditor General says that he has full confidence in the integrity of the Pennsylvania Lottery following a review in response to an investigation in 2017 that found some Pennsylvanians have claimed lottery tickets with seemingly improbable frequency. In an interview Monday, Eugene DePasquale said he met with lottery officials and was given a thorough tour of its operations and an explanation of its security procedures. DePasquale added that the lottery told him it had investi
Feb 6, 2018, 11:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Raffle Drawing Creates Four New MillionairesNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's Millionaire Raffle game has produced four new millionaires to begin the new year.The selection of four $1 million top-prize raffle tickets and five $100,000 second-prize raffle tickets was televised live on the Lottery's drawing show earlier this evening. Five hundred $1,000 winning raffle tickets also were selected, but were not displayed due to time constraints.The four top-prize winning tickets selected, worth $1 million cash each, were: 00143065, 00168249, 00260928
Jan 2, 2006, 6:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery testing payment with credit, debit cardsNews Story
People can now use debit and credit cards to purchase Pennsylvania lottery tickets at nine Smoker's Express stores in the Harrisburg area as part of a new payment trial. The Pennsylvania Lottery is testing out the financial viability of allowing people to use credit and debit cards to purchase draw and instant lottery tickets. The test, which started this week, is the result of an ever-growing population of Pennsylvanians that don't carry cash and can't play the Lottery. We've been hearin
Feb 11, 2016, 3:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News