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One ticket wins $3 million Florida LottoNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Thursday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Campbellton, officials said.A total of 47 tickets matched five numbers to win $8,093; 4,002 tickets matched four numbers for $77; and 85,399 tickets matched three numbers for $5.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday: 01-20-21-23-26-36.Three winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $85,469.27 each, the Florida Lottery said
Dec 26, 2003, 3:41 am - Lottery News

Spain Holds $2.2B Christmas LotteryNews Story
The world's richest lottery spread $2.2 billion in Christmas cheer Monday throughout Spain, including to a village whose name means luck.Spaniards spent the morning glued to television sets and radios for the latest edition of a sweepstakes that goes back to 1812 and marks the official start of Spain's holiday season.For three hours, school children picked small, wooden balls out of two golden tumblers -- one for 5-digit lottery numbers and another for the corresponding prize.Known as El Gordo,
Dec 23, 2003, 5:26 am - Lottery News

Other vendors could have saved Tenn. lottery $23MNews Story
While Tennessee's lottery won uncommonly good rates from two companies vying to sell lottery tickets here next year, those rates were not the lowest offered.Indeed, they were the highest.The difference: an estimated $23 million over the seven-year term of the contracts.That's enough to help put almost 2,000 students through four years of college the intended purpose of the lottery.Lottery officials say there were good reasons for rejecting the lowest rates. They had concerns about the reliabilit
Dec 22, 2003, 6:12 am - Lottery News

One ticket wins $6 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Zephyrhills, officials said.A total of 117 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,741.50; 5,496 tickets matched four numbers for $64.50; and 102,277 tickets matched three numbers for $4.50.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 3-14-21-32-41-45.Fantasy 5Four winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $62,980.91 each, the Flori
Dec 22, 2003, 6:11 am - Lottery News

Comptroller: Texas missing potential $1B from gamingNews Story
More than $1 billion a year is being sucked out of Texas because of the popularity of electronic gaming in other states, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn told a Texas House committee Thursday. Over a billion dollars a year [is] being sucked out of Texas classrooms to other states, Strayhorn says. We must repatriate these dollars for the school children of Texas. Last April, Strayhorn recommended to the 78th Legislature that the state allow video lottery at racetracks where Texans already
Dec 19, 2003, 3:12 am - Lottery News

Three tickets share $40 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
Three tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to share a jackpot of $40 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Miami, Pensacola and Royal Palm Beach, officials said.A total of 265 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,668; 13,898 tickets matched four numbers for $56.50; and 261,685 tickets matched three numbers for $4.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 1-4-8-12-45-48.Fantasy 5 PayoutsOne winner of the Fantasy 5 game will
Dec 15, 2003, 6:33 am - Lottery News

Phone trouble halts MD lottery sales for 6 hoursNews Story
On Monday, lottery players were having a hard time getting clerks to take their money.That's because 329 lottery machines were down in Washington County for about six hours because of a problem with AT T phone lines, according to Maryland Lottery spokesman Brian Johnson and AT T spokesman Dave Johnson.Snow that melted and froze on an AT T microwave tower outside Hagerstown probably was the culprit that caused the lottery machines to go down, a problem that also affected some long-distance caller
Dec 9, 2003, 7:55 am - Lottery News

Florida Lotto jackpot rolls over to $32 millionNews Story
No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, causing the current jackpot to roll over to $32 million, lottery officials said Sunday.A total of 99 tickets matched five numbers to win $6,950.50; 7,047 tickets matched four numbers for $79; and 147,077 tickets matched three numbers for $5.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 13-17-33-34-40-49.Four winners of the Fantasy 5'' game will collect $65,659.16 each.The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Kissimmee, McDavid, Mia
Dec 8, 2003, 4:39 am - Lottery News

Mega wait almost over for lottery's Mega MillionsNews Story
A day doesn't go by without a customer asking Duc Lu when he's going to start selling the Mega Millions lottery tickets. They say, `When do they come in?' I say, `Don't worry, you come in, I'll tell you what day they come out,' said Lu, 47, who has run the HLD Food Mart on Koenig Lane for 18 years.Lu hasn't sold a winning lottery ticket, but it hasn't discouraged people from making his store the No. 1 retailer for Texas Lotto and scratch-off ticket sales in Austin. He attributes his high sales
Dec 2, 2003, 4:26 am - Lottery News

Company picked to operate North Dakota state lotteryNews Story
Scientific Games International, which sells Powerball lottery tickets in Montana, Iowa and four other states, has been chosen to provide equipment for North Dakota's entry into the game next year.An advisory board voted Monday to pick Scientific Games over two competitors, GTech Corp. and Intralot USA, as the state's lottery supplier.State Rep. RaeAnn Kelsch, R-Mandan, the chairwoman of the board, said the company offered a more favorable commission rate than its competitors. Scientific Games c
Dec 2, 2003, 4:19 am - Lottery News