$200,000 Oklahoma Powerball lottery ticket to expire soon
A $200,000 winning Powerball ticket sold on February 25 in Skiatook, Oklahoma, is set to expire August 24th.
Oklahoma Lottery players who purchased a Powerball ticket at Mr. Bass, Inc. located at 4000 W. Rogers in Skiatook, should check their pockets and hiding places, because time is running out.
I'd hate to see this ticket go unclaimed, said Jim Scroggins, executive director of the Oklahoma Lottery. Someone may have misplaced it, or does not even realize they have a winning ticket.
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Aug 11, 2006, 6:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma Powerball lottery winner claims prize
Two men representing a trust claimed the $101.8 million Powerball jackpot from the Oklahoma Lottery Commission, lottery officials announced Wednesday.
The WJW Investment Trust will receive a lump-sum cash payment of $32.8 million after taxes. The winning ticket was purchased at a Broken Arrow convenience store on June 17. Indiana also sells the tickets.
Trustee Richard Barlow and the trust's attorney, David Walls, presented the winning ticket to the Lottery Commission on Tuesday, said Jay ...
Aug 2, 2006, 12:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
Okla. Lottery has generated $65 million for schools
An Oklahoma Lottery official says that more than $65 million dollars has been generated for education since the lottery began in October.
Ticket sales for the state's fiscal year that ended June 30th totaled $207.29 million. Lottery executive director Jim Scroggins says more than $65 million of that amount will be deposited into the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund.
He says that in the lottery's first 262 days of sales, it effectively raised $248,091 per day for education.
Scrogg ...
Jul 18, 2006, 10:09 am - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma lottery winner remains silent
Let's say you opened your Tulsa World to Page 3, checked your Powerball numbers in the top right-hand corner same as you do every Thursday and Sunday and found you had a perfect, exact match.
Let's say that made the ticket worth $101.8 million.
Would you run screaming down the street?
Call everybody you know and maybe everybody in the phone book?
Faint?
For the holder of a winning Powerball ticket sold in Broken Arrow about three weeks ago, the answer to at least two of ...
Jul 4, 2006, 7:48 am - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma lottery winners not in a hurry to claim prizes
Oklahoma retailers have sold winning lottery tickets totaling nearly $110 million, but ten winners have yet to claim more than $102 million in prizes.
News on 6 anchor Tami Marler explains why they might be waiting to come forward.
You're 33 times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightening than win a Powerball jackpot, but just five months into Oklahoma's participation in the 31-state lottery, a Broken Arrow Quik Trip sold a winning ticket worth $101.8-million.
It's not Oklahom ...
Jun 29, 2006, 12:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in Oklahoma
Oklahoma has its first Powerball jackpot winner since it joined the multistate lottery game earlier this year.
No one came forward Sunday to claim the $101.8 million jackpot.
The winning numbers drawn Saturday were 10, 20, 22, 39, 48 and the Powerball was 25.
Oklahoma Lottery executive director Jim Scroggins urged players to check their numbers closely and contact his office.
There are significant considerations with a prize of this amount and the lottery would like to offer any ass ...
Jun 19, 2006, 3:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma Lottery announces new Pick 5-style game
Oklahoma lottery officials announced a new game will start that's similar to Powerball , although the game appears to have much more in common with Pick 5-style games.
The game requires players to match five numbered balls and those that do will win $35,211, or $25,000 after taxes.
Lottery officials are hoping the new game will prevent a drop-off in sales after the first full year of the lottery.
The Lottery Commission is estimating sales and other earnings will bring in more than $400 ...
May 18, 2006, 8:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma bans some businesses from selling lottery tickets
A bill to prohibit pawn shops, payday lenders and check-cashing businesses from selling Oklahoma lottery tickets has won final legislative approval.
The bill by Senator Kathleen Wilcoxson passed the Senate yesterday and now goes to the governor.
The state Lottery Commission voted last year to prohibit those businesses from selling lottery tickets but Wilcoxson says the law will prevent future Lottery Commissions from reversing the decision.
The commission had initially agreed to allow l ...
May 9, 2006, 7:57 am - - Lottery News forum
Oklahoma Lottery adds new claims centers
Winners of up to five-thousand dollars in the Oklahoma Lottery will be able to cash in their tickets at some Homeland grocery stores beginning today.
The Oklahoma Lottery authorized a Homeland store on north May in Oklahoma City and another on west Reno in Yukon as lottery claims center for prizes of up to five-thousand dollars.
Players winning up to $600 or less can continue to claim prizes at any authorized lottery location.
Prizes of more than $5,000 still must be claimed at the lott ...
May 1, 2006, 8:36 am - - Lottery News forum
Police warn of foreign lottery scheme
A new twist on an old scam has bilked some Enid, Oklahoma, residents out of $2,500 to $8,500, police said.
Enid Police Department Detective Mike Riley said he's received three or four calls a day for the last couple of weeks concerning this particular scam.
Some are notified by mail they have won a foreign lottery, such as the Australian, Canadian, Portuguese or United Kingdom lotteries, and are told someone will stop by to collect money to cover insurance and handling costs, Riley said. T ...
Apr 6, 2006, 10:15 am - - Lottery News forum
