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Paul, lottery team working overtimeNews Story
Tennessee Lottery employees received little time off during the holidays as the upstart corporation works overtime to see ticket sales begin prior to next months deadline.Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TEL) CEO Rebecca Paul says her team is working 14 to 16 hours per day seven days a week.Workers contracted by gaming vendor GTECH are installing lottery machines in an estimated 100 retail locations every day. The installation process continued non-stop through the holidays including New
Jan 5, 2004, 6:13 am - Lottery News

One Ticket Won $88 Million SuperLotto Plus JackpotNews Story
Lucky Ticket Sold in Seal BeachOne ticket won Saturday night's California SuperLotto Plus jackpot of $88 million by matching all six numbers -- 5, 9, 13, 16, 21 and Mega Number 4.The ticket was sold in Seal Beach and will be worth $88 million. If the winner chose the cash option, the ticket will be worth roughly $44,000,000 (before taxes). If the winner chose the annual payments, the winner's payment will begin at $2.2 million and graduate to more than $4.48 million by the 26th year (before a
Jan 5, 2004, 6:09 am - Lottery News

New Year Brings New Start for $2.1 Million Wash. Lotto WinnerNews Story
Bellevue man dreams of new home, new business, new life for his familyIt's business as anything but usual for Phuc Nguyen of Bellevue as the New Year begins. Nguyen, 30, just completed a two-year apprenticeship as a painter and dreams of starting his own house-painting business. Who knows, it may be his own home that gets painted first. Nguyen plans to use some of the prize money from his $2.1 million Lotto Jackpot-winning ticket to open his own business and open the door to a new home and a
Jan 3, 2004, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Grand Plans for $2.5 Million Lotto WinnerNews Story
Issaquah woman looks forward to normal routine-with a lot of extrasJanette Bowe of Issaquah, Washington wants life to continue to be as normal as possible, but with a lot of extras. Winning a $2.5 million Lotto Jackpot, could mean the extras will become a normal part of Bowe's life, too.College education for Bowe's three children tops the list of extras. New automobiles, a new home, and a family trip to the Grand Canyon are also in the plans. We're a very close family, and we love to trave
Jan 3, 2004, 8:11 am - Lottery News

Penn. Match 6 Lotto Rules FinalizedNews Story
Lottery Post presents a summary of the rules for the new Pennsylvania Match 6 Lotto game.The Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue, under the authority contained in section 303 of the State Lottery Law (72 P. S. 3761-303), added Chapter 872, relating to the new Match 6 Lotto game.PurposeMatch 6 Lotto is designed to give players the opportunity to win up to four prizes in each game.For a $2 purchase, the player gets a ticket containing three sets of six numbers, the numbers in each of these sets ra
Jan 2, 2004, 8:17 pm - Lottery News

Wichita Scoutmaster Claims $1.2 Million Super Kansas Cash JackpotNews Story
Michael Irwin of Wichita, Kansas has some good news to share with his Boy Scout Troop. Irwin, 60, claimed a $1.2 million jackpot on his Super Kansas Cash ticket for the Dec. 31, 2003 drawing. His $5 Quick Pick ticket matched all six number in the Wednesday drawing to win the prize. Irwin's sons, Tim, 26, and Dominic, 23, accompanied him to Lottery headquarters today to claim the prize. I'm very grateful, said Irwin. this money is going to help my family in so many ways. Irwin, a self-emplo
Jan 2, 2004, 5:52 pm - Lottery News

First Tennessee Games RevealedNews Story
Tennessee lottery players may have a chance at $1 million in prize money even before the Ping-Pong balls start popping up for the state's big money drawings this spring.Yesterday lottery President and Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Paul unveiled Tennessee Millionaire along with three other scratch-off ticket games that will go on sale in February, officially launching the drive for funding college scholarships through lottery sales.''At about 10:30 p.m. last night, we printed our first lottery
Dec 30, 2003, 5:30 am - Lottery News

Powerball sales brisk for tonight's $137 million drawingNews Story
Visions of money stacks are dancing in the heads of Powerball players who recall the $314 million Christmas Day jackpot won by a West Virginia man last year.This year's holiday week drawing is on Christmas Eve and has fueled a spike in Powerball ticket purchases. I think people are out there spending their money left and right and there's always that little glimmer of hope that this will be a wonderful Christmas, said Mark Kempton, manager of Eddy's, a Council Bluffs gas station. It would make
Dec 24, 2003, 7:03 am - Lottery News

$100 million jackpot boosts demand for lottery ticketsNews Story
Abel Ybarra looks at the $1 Mega Millions lottery ticket that he purchased Monday night as an investment, not a waste of money.Just like the stock market, you keep putting money in until you make a nice profit, Ybarra said, as he held his ticket outside the Supertrak convenience store in east Arlington. Buying cigarettes and beer is wasting money, said Ybarra, a warehouse inventory worker. If I win, I would have become a millionaire on a $1 investment. State lottery officials expect 3 million
Dec 23, 2003, 5:32 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery announces online lottery gameNews Story
New Jersey plans to take the lottery to the Internet next year.The new game, called Cyber Slingo, has a scratch-off instant ticket portion and an online component, giving players two chances to win. Tickets will go on sale Feb. 23.To access the online portion, players will log on to the state's lottery Web site, input an access code printed on the ticket and play a five-minute version of the popular online game Slingo.Game results are predetermined and are not based on skill, but are intended as
Dec 23, 2003, 5:28 am - Lottery News