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State will drop Plus, revert to old LottoNews Story
If you buy a ticket for tonight's Washington Lotto Plus drawing, you have a chance to win a record $46 million jackpot.In a few more days, your odds of winning will get a bit better.That's because the Washington Lottery Commission is reverting to the old Lotto game after Saturday night's drawing for Lotto Plus. The odds of winning the Lotto jackpot will be 1 in 7 million instead of the 1 in 11 million odds for Lotto Plus.That's one reason lottery officials are bringing back Lotto after a 17-mont
Oct 1, 2003, 3:30 am - Lottery News

Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in south GeorgiaNews Story
A single player has won the grand prize from the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing.Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing -- worth $150 million -- was sold in Fitzgerald, Ga., about 170 miles south of Atlanta.Besides the grand prize winner, nine players matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $175,000 each.Another 75 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number -- good for third prizes of $5,000.The win
Oct 1, 2003, 3:26 am - Lottery News

Jackpot has players dreaming bigNews Story
Tuesday's hefty Mega Millions payoff making ticket sales boomWhen the lottery prize gets high enough, Industrial Park Party Store owner Karim Kenaya goes from selling tickets to buying them.Sometime before Tuesday night's drawing of the Mega Millions numbers -- for a jackpot estimated at $150 million -- Kenaya will buy a batch of tickets at his Port Huron store and hope to strike it rich. He bought 60 tickets Friday when the jackpot reached $126 million. When it gets to big jackpots, you have to
Sep 30, 2003, 4:15 am - Lottery News

10,000 scratch tickets flawed?News Story
Ten thousand scratch tickets from Massachusetts' new $640 Million Jubilee game are potentially defective -- but state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is refusing to issue a recall, despite fears the flawed tickets could skew the odds or even deprive somebody of a big jackpot.The $10 tickets, which were just unveiled two weeks ago, contain an uneven coating of the chemical that makes the latex scratching surface stick to the ticket's paper -- making them unscratchable.Over the past 11 days, one Lotte
Sep 30, 2003, 4:10 am - Lottery News

Navy Veteran Retires in Style With $175,000 Mega Millions WinNews Story
Paying off his mortgage, making travel plans, and relaxing in retirement -- these are what the future hold for Howard J. Downing of Belfair.Downing, who retired after 20 years of naval service in 1994, is the Washington Lottery's newest Mega Millions second-prize winner of $175,000. He received payment Monday of $131,250 after 25-percent federal tax withholding.Downing found out he was a big Lottery winner Saturday as he checked tickets at Randy's Short Stop in Belfair and purchased his tickets
Sep 30, 2003, 4:06 am - Lottery News

Lottery schedule may jumpNews Story
Tennessee lottery head Rebecca Paul said Monday the corporation may award contracts to gaming vendors, which will be charged with laying the infrastructure for ticket sales, two days sooner than had been anticipated.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) must award gaming contracts by the day before Thanksgiving, says Paul, to reach the goal of the first scratch off ticket sales by Feb. 10. Paul now says, however, the contracts could be awarded two days sooner by Nov. 24.Paul stands
Sep 30, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $150 MillionNews Story
Players Win More Than $6.1 Million in Friday's Mega Millions DrawingSummer may have ended, but Mega Millions is hot!With nine different ways to win, players across America are lining up to play the game with the highest jackpot in the nation. More than 900,000 Mega Millions players won prizes in Friday's drawing. Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $126 million jackpot, that jackpot now grows to an estimated $150 million for the Tuesday, September 30, 2003 drawing.Frid
Sep 29, 2003, 3:47 am - Lottery News

$69 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
The excitement is growing along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 408,947 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.5 million in prizes in America's Game. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $69 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, October 1 drawing will be an estimated $36.8 million.The numbers drawn were: 9, 20, 30, 41, 48, and the
Sep 29, 2003, 3:43 am - Lottery News

Unemployed Ohio woman wins $5.25MNews Story
A woman who was laid off nearly a year ago from her job at LG Philips Displays is no longer down on her luck.Esther Niese of rural Gilboa, Ohio, who was unemployed, is the holder of a Super Lotto Plus ticket worth $5.25 million.Ms. Niese could not be reached for comment at herNews of her big win spread quickly yesterday around Ottawa, where Ms. Niese purchased the ticket. The village of Ottawa was devastated last December when its biggest employer shut down, leaving more than 1,000 workers - inc
Sep 29, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Check your tickets: $30M still unclaimedNews Story
Take this $30 million, please.The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has $30.5 million to give away, but nobody is coming forward to take the prize. The jackpot from the April 11 Super 7 draw is still unclaimed after almost six months.It's the largest jackpot on the corporation's books ever to go without being claimed.The winner has up to a year to claim the $30-million prize.If it is not claimed, the money goes back into the general lottery pot for future draws, she said.Lottery officials said th
Sep 29, 2003, 3:29 am - Lottery News