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2 Oklahoma lottery pools win bigNews Story
Both are in the Tulsa area: Quality Plating workers get $10,000, and Cost-O-Fab employees rake in $200,000. Two winning lottery tickets were redeemed Wednesday with the winnings going to employees at two Tulsa-area businesses, according to the Oklahoma Lottery. Eleven employees at Cost-O-Fab, a Broken Arrow heat exchanger shop, claimed their $200,000 prize at Oklahoma Lottery headquarters. The group matched five numbers but missed the Powerball. The winning Cost-O-Fab employees were R
Oct 4, 2007, 5:01 pm - Lottery News

Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and winsNews Story
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel. The only thing she changed was her luck. After the show an
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - Lottery News

Okla. Lottery Commission struggles to meet its 35% profit requirementNews Story
As a result of the finance and audit committee's dreary budget forecasts for fiscal year 2008, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission is planning to trim costs and attempt to get a key statutory requirement of the commission eliminated. The board plans to try to amend out a requirement that the Lottery Commission post a 35-percent profit in their third year of operations. The board said they are doing all they can to trim operating costs without cutting current staff and advertising expenditures,
Sep 19, 2007, 4:34 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winner says yes to TV; no to marriage proposalsNews Story
Good Morning America, the ABC television morning news show, is looking for lottery winner Nita Jacobs of Sallisaw. Jacobs was the winner Aug. 25 of $600,009 in the Powerball lottery. She won by choosing her numbers off football players' jerseys. Apparently because of her unusual manner of selecting numbers, Good Morning America hopes to present her story to the entire country. The Good Morning America representative contacted a local paper Thursday, hoping to find Jacobs. Jacobs s
Sep 5, 2007, 10:23 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery scrambles to increase revenueNews Story
Education funding doesn't see expected boon; officials cite low prize payouts as root cause With sales floundering compared to projections, Oklahoma Lottery officials are scrambling to bring in more money. State officials are saying the lottery hasn't been the boon to educational funding it was touted to be. To increase lottery sales, Lottery Commission Executive Director Jim Scroggins is advocating putting more of the lottery sales into prize money, saying people play to win. The fe
Jul 30, 2007, 10:13 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma couple claims $106M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Don Harvey's long-haul truck had almost two million miles on it when its engine died this week. Now he's planning to ride the road in style, thanks to a $105.8 million Powerball ticket bought by his wife. Absolute disbelief and shock, was how Joyce Harvey described her reaction when she checked her computer Thursday night and found she had the winning ticket. Basically, I just broke down and cried, she said. The Harveys, from Muldrow in eastern Oklahoma, said they will pay off bills
Jun 30, 2007, 9:31 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery to add Hot Lotto, TV showNews Story
The Oklahoma Lottery plans to start a television game show and offer an additional multi-state game in hopes of improving lower-than-expected revenues. The new television game show would be filmed in Oklahoma City and begin airing in October. Next year, Oklahoma would join ten other states in offering the Hot Lotto game, which features a minimum jackpot of $1 million. Lottery Commission Executive Director Jim Scroggins says he hopes the additions will help generate excitement for the lotte
Jun 27, 2007, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Party leader wants to repeal Okla. LotteryNews Story
The head of Oklahoma's Republican Party, citing lower-than-expected revenue and escalating social costs, is calling for repeal of the Oklahoma Lottery. Only 18 months after the first lottery ticket was sold in the state, state Republican Party chairman Tom Daxon says the lottery, approved with 64 percent of the vote in a statewide referendum in November 2004, has not worked out as the voters were led to believe. Democratic Governor Brad Henry supported a statewide lottery as a way to rais
Mar 27, 2007, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery holds drawing for 1st Anniversary RaffleNews Story
The Oklahoma Lottery Saturday held the drawing for its new raffle-style game, which, judging by the title, will happen once a year. This limited-time-only game features a top prize of $250,000 and several smaller prizes, including two second-tier prizes of $50,000 and 300 third-tier prizes of $500. The full list of prize-winning numbers is available at: https://www.lotterypost.com/ok-lottery-raffle-2007.asp Only 200,000 $5 tickets were available for purchase. With every ticket pu
Jan 21, 2007, 6:27 pm - Lottery News

$1 million Powerball lottery winner speaks about picking numbersNews Story
Oklahoma lottery winners discuss their methods What's in a number? Just ask Charles and Laura Fay of Foss in western Oklahoma. The couple won $1 million playing Powerball on March 17 with numbers that Charles derived while driving his tractor-trailer rig. He (Charles) would just be driving, hauling fuel, and he had a long route. Charles had some numbers floating around in his head, and we used those, Laura Fay said. We happened to be pretty lucky. We use the same numbers a
Dec 26, 2006, 12:27 pm - Lottery News