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Winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $200M sold in N.M.News Story
Largest Powerball prize ever in New Mexico Lottery offers advice to winner The New Mexico Lottery announced Saturday that it sold the winning ticket for the $200 million Powerball jackpot prize drawn earlier that evening. It was the only winning ticket nationwide. The massive jackpot is the largest Powerball prize ever won in New Mexico. The winning numbers were 13, 24, 29, 40, 52 and the red Powerball number was 29. The Power Play number was 4. The numbers were drawn Saturday
Sep 28, 2008, 7:32 pm - Todd - 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 - Todd - Lottery News

Newspaper criticizes Georgia Lottery bonusesNews Story
Lottery job a big win for execs who earn fat bonuses By Maureen Downey, AJC editorial board Dec. 6, 2007 The Georgia Lottery Corp. pitches its Win for Life game as The Game That Offers a Lifetime of Security, a slogan that might also describe a job with the lottery. Equal Time: Lottery bonuses are deserved With $3 million in bonuses handed out this year, lucky employees who end up at the Georgia Lottery have won The Career That Offers a Lifetime of Security. Georgia Lottery
Dec 6, 2007, 7:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery asks firms to pay cost for errorNews Story
Letters seeking $1.4 million are sent to 2 vendors Tennessee Lottery officials have asked two vendors to pay a total of $1.4 million to make up for losses caused by a computer coding error that compromised the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games in August. Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul Hargrove and two board members disclosed the figure during a meeting Tuesday with The Tennessean's editorial board. Letters demanding the payment were sent to Smartplay International, the vendor that supplied the computer
Oct 31, 2007, 7:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Arkansas Lt. Gov. proposes state lottery in '08News Story
On Tuesday, Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter said he hopes to have a state lottery on the ballot by 2008. That gives Arkansas voters the opportunity to decide for themselves whether or not the state should have a lottery, with all of the proceeds going to scholarship assistance to Arkansas students, said Halter. Currently Arkansas is only one of eight states across the nation without a state lottery in place. Neighboring Mississippi and Alabama are among others. But state
Sep 19, 2007, 3:02 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Mega winner believes in magicReply
Uncle Jim: My comments weren't specifically aimed at you (well, most of them weren't), and you have my most sincere and heartfelt apologies if I gave that impression. I always enjoy reading your posts, as I know you put a great deal of thought into every sentence you write. Excepting the paragraph in which I addressed you, the remainder was meant as food for thought for the general membership. I've noticed some pretty scathing comments coming from many other members, not just in
Sep 4, 2007, 1:19 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

Engineer reported bad Tenn. Lottery computerized drawsReply
from the article: Lemmonds, who said he does not play Cash3 or Cash 4, said he just hopes the problem is fixed as it impacted many players. I can't say I was surprised, he said, adding he hopes a similar problem does not occur again. ____________________________________ It's a pretty sad commentary when someone who doesn't even play the daily games notices the same anomalies we see in these faux drawings. Unfortunately, we know with relative certainty that this will hap
Aug 24, 2007, 4:03 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

Lottery thief sets himself on fireNews Story
Firefighters said it can't get more ironic than this: an arsonist breaks into a convenience store, steals scratch-off lottery tickets, tries to cover his tracks by setting a fire, and in the process, sets himself on fire. It happened early Thursday morning in Rome, Georgia, just off of Rockmart Highway. Safarez Chunara surveyed his store on Friday the first time he and his family had seen the damage. The inside is completely torched. We trying to work and serve the community, Chunar
Jun 2, 2007, 7:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winnerNews Story
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning. Powerball officials say one winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn Wednesday night was sold this week. That ticket was sold in North Carolina, although there is no word this morning where that ticket was purchased. The winning numbers were 2, 8, 9, 12 and 19, with the Powerball number of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 3. This is the first Powerball jackpot won w
Nov 30, 2006, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery commissioner on lottery firm payroll for yearsNews Story
Four years before North Carolina lawmakers created the state lottery, a for-profit lottery company was paying former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings to work as a consultant, a company executive said Monday at Geddings' fraud trial. Patrick Traub, an executive at Scientific Games Corp., affirmed government evidence showing that Geddings received $9,668.66 in April 2001 from a company later acquired by Scientific Games. An invoice from Geddings' public relations firm stated the payme
Sep 25, 2006, 1:51 pm - Todd - Lottery News