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Weak bond market lowers lottery annuity jackpotsNews Story
Situation serves as reminder of how jackpots are calculated The nation's financial crisis is causing a dip in one of the optional jackpots offered in Wisconsin's Megabucks lottery game. The lottery said Tuesday that the annuity option which has a jackpot paid in installments over 29 years will decline for the first time because of a weak bond market. State lotteries fund their annuity options by using ticket revenue to buy conservative, government-backed bonds. For the Wisconsin lott
Oct 29, 2008, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin couple win in lottery -- again!News Story
The Mount Horeb couple who made headlines earlier this week because they held two of only four winning tickets sold in Wisconsin for Saturday's SuperCash drawing, turn out to have the other two as well. Verlyn Adamson, 69, and his wife, Judith, 69, of Mount Horeb, turned in the other two tickets and it turned out they are the only winners in Saturday's drawing and are now $1.4 million richer. Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage was surprised when the Adamsons held the first two winning tickets
Aug 22, 2008, 8:49 pm - Lottery News

His and Hers: Wisconsin spouses win identical lottery jackpotsNews Story
This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery. Lottery officials said Verlyn Adamson bought his winning ticket at a Mineral Point gas station and his wife Judith bought hers from a convenience store in Barnevald. Verlyn Adamson is an accountant who says he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a secret formula
Aug 19, 2008, 8:23 pm - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

$100,000 Wisconsin lottery ticket going unclaimedNews Story
A Wisconsin lottery ticket worth $100,000 will be worthless if no one claims the prize in the next 10 days. The ticket for the Holiday Millions Raffle was purchased more than six months ago in Neenah and was one of 10 that won $100,000 in a New Year's Day drawing. But it's the only one that hasn't been used to claim the prize, and the 180-day claim period runs out June 27. Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says officials are hoping someone just forgot about the ticket and can still claim
Jun 20, 2008, 9:21 am - Lottery News

$275M Powerball lottery jackpot goes to W. Virginia playerNews Story
There is a one in 146 million chance that someone would match all six numbers drawn in a Powerball game. One of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night beat those astronomical odds to win the $276.3 million jackpot. The game's cash option, should the winner choose it, is worth $139,421,731. The ticket matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 6, 22, 42, 43, 47 and 16 as the Powerball. The Power Play number was 2. Nearly 2 million other players won
Mar 16, 2008, 8:28 am - Lottery News

$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'News Story
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile. I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location. A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery CEO claims sales unhurt by numerous errorsNews Story
Tennessee Lottery chief Rebecca Hargrove said Monday there's no sign that players have lost confidence despite a daily drawings computer glitch. A July switch to computerized drawings had incorrectly prevented repeat numbers in the drawings until a programming error was fixed in August. The error meant that no winning draw included duplicate numerals, so any ticket holder who had bet on a number like 2-2-1 or 7-7-7-7 wasn't going to win. But quarterly sales for Cash 3 tickets sales rose 5
Oct 29, 2007, 11:01 pm - Lottery News

U.S. Congressman wins lottery againNews Story
Sensenbrenner is a foe of illegal aliens U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, known for his strong opposition to illegal immigration, won the lottery for the third time last week, the Associated Press reported Friday. The Republican already a millionaire hit it big in 1997 with a $250,000 jackpot in the District of Columbia lottery. Then, last spring, he won $1,000 prize in the Wisconsin lottery, and he won another $1,000 in that lottery last week, the AP said. Sensenbrenne
Sep 7, 2007, 8:27 pm - Lottery News

Cheese factory workers win lottery againNews Story
Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again this time a $10,000 jackpot. Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says seven of the original 100 Miracles who won last August matched 4 of the five regular numbers plus the Powerball in the July 11th Powerball jackpot and won $10,000. Fifteen people won in all. Last year, 100 workers at Sargento Foods Incorporated in Plymouth said they had been playing for three years before w
Aug 24, 2007, 1:34 am - Lottery News