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$25 million lottery ticket before judgeNews Story
A Superior Court judge is scheduled to rule today on who owns a disputed Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $25 million.Judge Marguerite T. Simon will decide whether to award the winning Mega Millions ticket to a Bergen County couple or to a crew of 20 Englewood hospital workers.Simon said she will issue a ruling at 1:30 p.m. today.Cornell and Teri Davis of Englewood presented the winning ticket to New Jersey lottery officials March 17. They are regular customers at Circle Food Market, where the
Aug 13, 2003, 3:26 am - Lottery News

Savannah family wins $50 million Mega Millions prizeNews Story
A Savannah family turned in a winning ticket on Monday for a Mega Millions jackpot worth $50 million.Richard Mika, his wife, Robin, and their two daughters selected the cash option for Fridays drawing, which amounted to $28 million before taxes. The lottery will withhold 31 percent of that for taxes.Richard Mika, a Savannah Water Department employee, was remodeling his home on Saturday when he decided to call the Georgia Lottery hotline to check his numbers.I keep waiting for someone to pinch me
Aug 12, 2003, 5:31 am - Lottery News

Judge to decide ownership of $25 million lottery ticketNews Story
A Superior Court judge is scheduled to rule Wednesday on who owns a disputed lottery ticket worth $25 million. Judge Marguerite T. Simon will decide whether to award the winning Mega Millions ticket to a Bergen County couple or to a crew of 20 Englewood hospital workers. She said she will issue a ruling at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, The Record of Bergen County reported for Tuesday's editions. Both parties claim the ticket is rightfully theirs. The judge has heard days of conflicting testimony. Cornell
Aug 12, 2003, 5:23 am - Lottery News

Big games enter lottery's big pictureNews Story
A giant jackpot lottery such as Powerball or Mega Millions is likely to become part of Tennessee's buffet of games, but the heads of lotteries in Tennessee and Georgia say a possible partnership won't affect which game Tennesseans play.Others, including the chief of the South Carolina lottery, say Georgia's membership in Mega Millions could influence Tennessee to join that game, which is not as well-known by Middle and West Tennesseans.These big games in which states pool their prize money to of
Aug 12, 2003, 5:21 am - Lottery News

N.D. explores lottery agreementNews Story
Numbers for North Dakota's new Powerball lottery may be provided by another state lottery's computer system, a move that officials say would reduce the cost of running the game in a small, rural state. Lottery administrators say the sharing arrangement has a chance to be the first of its kind in the nation. Directors of the new Tennessee lottery, which hopes to begin selling tickets early next year, are exploring a cooperative arrangement with neighboring Georgia.Chuck Keller, North Dakota's int
Aug 11, 2003, 3:16 am - Lottery News

CT Lottery makes good after two balls stickNews Story
Connecticut lottery officials said Saturday they will honor lottery tickets containing numbers of two lottery balls that got stuck during a drawing Friday night. The numbers 18 and 27 were placed in a mixer for the ''Cash 5'' drawing, but they got stuck in the number chute as the other 33 balls fell into the chamber, said Diane Patterson, lottery spokeswoman.Patterson said lottery officials didn't notice the problem until after the drawing, which was televised live.As a result, officials will ho
Aug 11, 2003, 2:56 am - Lottery News

Italian lottery hits $75mNews Story
With still no winner Saturday, the Italian lottery jackpot grew to a record 63 million euros (US$75 million) for the Wednesday drawing.While no one picked the six lucky numbers, there were four winners for the second prize, each of whom won just under 900,000 euros (US$1.02 million).Players hoping to win the SuperEnalotto prize have to guess in any order the first six numbers between one and 90 extracted from the lottery wheels of Bari, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo and Rome.The jackpot has b
Aug 11, 2003, 2:52 am - Lottery News

Connecticut Investigates Lottery Mix-UpNews Story
Connecticut lottery officials were investigating why two lottery balls failed to drop during a drawing. The numbers 18 and 27 were placed in a mixer for the Cash 5 drawing Friday night, but they got stuck in the number chute as the other 33 balls fell into the chamber, said Diane Patterson, spokeswoman for the Connecticut Lottery Corporation.Patterson said lottery officials didn't notice the problem until after the drawing, which was televised live.Officials will honor tickets with winning com
Aug 9, 2003, 10:12 am - Lottery News

$71m jackpot frenzy hits ItalyNews Story
Lottery fever is gripping people throughout Italy, as the possibility of winning the jackpot worth 63 million euros ($71.4 million) looms nearer. After the jackpot eluded Italians again on Wednesday, the next chance to correctly pick the winning six numbers will come on Saturday.Wednesday night's draw of the hugely popular numbers-picking game offered a jackpot of 58.5 million euros ($66.6 million), but the top prize eluded players for the 43rd straight time.The prize up for grabs Wednesday nigh
Aug 8, 2003, 2:58 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $53 MillionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot is on the rise again. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 351,135 players across the nation won a total almost $2.3 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $53 million.The cash option for the Saturday, August 9 drawing will be an estimated $27.3 million.The numbers drawn were: 11, 14, 26, 31, 48 and the Powerball was 30. The Power Play multiplier was 2
Aug 7, 2003, 7:10 am - Lottery News