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Mega Millions jackpot increases to $28 millionNews Story
The multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot grows to $28 million for Friday's game after there was no big winner in Tuesday night's $20 million drawing.No tickets matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.Four tickets had all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball and pay $175,000.20 tickets matched four of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball, for $5,000 payoffs.The winning numbers from Tuesday's drawing were: 12, 22, 37, 46, and 48. /The Mega Ball was 49.
Apr 21, 2004, 6:58 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery sales strong in TennesseeNews Story
Thousands buy chance on $90 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials sayPowerball is off to a blistering pace.Lured by tomorrow night's $90 million jackpot in the multistate game, thousands of Tennesseans bought a chance to win the big money yesterday on the first day of Powerball sales in this state. By 11:30 (a.m.), we had sales of $200,000 for Powerball tickets, said Rebecca Paul, CEO and president of the Tennessee Lottery.By 5 p.m., that figure had risen to about $500,000, and few glitc
Apr 20, 2004, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Powerball may draw new kind of Tennessee lottery playerNews Story
In the three months since lottery sales began in Tennessee, Paul Cressend has yet to buy a ticket in his home state.Instead, the health insurance salesman tries his luck in Georgia, Florida and Kentucky.That's because all three participate in either Mega Millions or Powerball, multistate games that award jackpots in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Tennessee's highest prize for state-sponsored games is $1 million. If they had big enough jackpots I'd buy lottery tickets in Tennessee, Cressen
Apr 19, 2004, 6:19 am - Lottery News

Man Dies In Crash Weeks After Winning LotteryNews Story
A northwestern Indiana man who won $9.7 million in a January lottery drawing died when his car struck a utility pole in a rainstorm, police said.James K. Craig Jr., 43, is the second Indiana man to die this year shortly after winning the lottery. He was pronounced dead about 4:30 a.m. Saturday shortly after the crash on U.S. 231 about 15 miles south of Gary near the town of Winfield.Lake County police spokesman Michael Higgins said Craig lost control of his 2003 Saturn in rainy conditions, causi
Apr 19, 2004, 6:11 am - Lottery News

The Two Titans of the Lottery IndustryNews Story
We often hear that the $40 billion spent on video games worldwide dwarfs the amount spent on the motion picture industry. But another form of mass entertainment dwarfs them both: the lottery business. According to a Morgan Stanley study, sales of lottery tickets around the world will top $160 billion in 2004.You should be thankful for the lottery business this week as you write a check for your tax bill. That's because you'd probably owe a lot more if not for your fellow citizens' crazed desire
Apr 15, 2004, 4:58 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery has largest payout ever in Pick 4News Story
Lady Luck waived her wand just right Tuesday for more than 1,500 Virginia Lottery ticket holders who played 7-7-7-7.The Virginia Lottery announced its largest payout ever for Pick 4 when the quadruple number was drawn in the afternoon game. The lottery will pay out $5.57 million to 1,503 ticket holders who matched the winning number. Our players won big today, said Virginia Lottery Executive Director Penelope W. Kyle. We paid out more today on the Pick 4 game than we ever paid in 15 years. Mos
Apr 14, 2004, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Lottery is bright spot in S.C. revenueNews Story
As a University of South Carolina student, Leah Sugarman is strapped for cash.But the 23-year-old said she usually can find money to play the South Carolina Education Lottery about once a month. I also find a dollar or two to smoke cigarettes, she said. I just scrounge up some change from the car or sofa. It's not a big deal. Sugarman said she usually spends a dollar -- and no more than $5 -- on scratch-off tickets and the Powerball game when the jackpot gets high. It's just for fun. I really
Apr 13, 2004, 5:10 am - Lottery News

Texas Lottery sales up for the yearNews Story
Overall lottery ticket sales are up this year even as Lotto Texas, the state-run big jackpot game, is down about 26 percent, Texas Lottery Commission officials said Monday.Officials said the dip in Lotto Texas sales was expected when Texas joined the multistate Mega Millions game in December, although the decrease is larger than forecast.Total sales -- including Mega Millions, Lotto Texas, and instant and other games -- are up 5.3 percent this fiscal year, to $2.03 billion. I look at the big pic
Apr 13, 2004, 5:06 am - Lottery News

UK player wins record Euro Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
The biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot has been won by a British ticketholder for the first time, Camelot said today.Camelot said the unknown ticketholder won 16.7 million (US$30.6 million) in the continental-wide lottery.Previous winning tickets have originated from France and Spain.The ticket has landed the sixth richest prize in British lottery history, with the biggest jackpot being the 22.6 million won by Mark Gardiner and Paul Maddison, of Hastings, East Sussex, in June, 1995.It costs 1.
Apr 12, 2004, 2:01 am - Lottery News

Man bets all on roulette and winsNews Story
Now the subject of TV showA British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo on Sunday surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.He won't go home empty handed.Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, sold all his possessions in March, took $135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, did some low stakes gambling and then placed everything he had left on Red. The wheel was spun, a crowd of supporters including h
Apr 12, 2004, 1:57 am - Lottery News