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Mississippi Residents Flock to Tennessee for Lottery TicketsNews Story
Legal in 2nd neighbor state; loss of Miss. money stirs debateRandy Kyle spent $100 in two days on Tennessee lottery tickets. Kyle, 42, of Walls in DeSoto County scratched off tickets during his lunch break Wednesday. He sat in his pickup parked at the Mapco Express convenience store near the Mississippi-Tennessee line.Kyle and several other Mississippians made up about a third of the store's lottery customers that afternoon.Kyle, a construction contractor, said he expects to play regularly while
Jan 26, 2004, 6:37 am - Lottery News

Powerball Record-Holder Arrested for Drunk DrivingNews Story
The man who won the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history is in trouble again.Jack Whittaker, who hit the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas 2002, was charged Sunday with drunk driving - just weeks after being charged with trying to assault a bar manager.Whittaker said he was on his way Sunday afternoon to Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming when he pulled off of Interstate 64 because of the treacherous weather. I'm nowhere near intoxicated, Whittaker told a local television stat
Jan 26, 2004, 12:18 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $55 MillionNews Story
The excitement is rising along with the jackpot in America's Game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 387,935 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.5 million in prizes.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $55 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 24 drawing will be an estimated $30.1 million.The numbers drawn were: 13, 17, 34, 41, 45 and the Powerball was 17. The Power Play mul
Jan 23, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Powerball payday comes for shop ownerNews Story
Officials from the S.C. Education Lottery made their way to Clover Shop Save on Thursday with a $50,000 check the store on U.S. 321 earned for its part in selling a winning Powerball ticket.A Concord, N.C., resident won half of a $221.5 million lottery jackpot on New Year's Eve. Norman Shue bought 20 tickets Dec. 31, about 12 hours before the drawing, in what turned out to be the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.The other winning ticket was sold in York, Pa.State lottery director Ernie Pas
Jan 23, 2004, 8:55 am - Lottery News

Governor among first to kick off Tennessee lotteryNews Story
It may have been the first day of Tennessee's lottery and the first time Gov. Phil Bredesen had ever bought a lottery ticket, but he knew exactly which one he wanted when he walked into a market Tuesday. Tennessee Treasures, he said as he pulled out $2 for the clerk. I like the name. Bredesen, wearing a yellow-and-purple lottery button reading Education Wins, wasn't disappointed when he didn't win a prize on his first ticket - or any of several follow-up tries - because the proceeds go towar
Jan 21, 2004, 5:27 am - Lottery News

Record Powerball winner loses more moneyNews Story
The winner of a record Powerball lottery jackpot and his money seem destined to part.For the second time in several months, Jack Whittaker's vehicle was broken into and thousands of dollars were taken.The latest incident occurred Saturday morning when someone broke the window of his SUV and took a bank bag from the front seat containing more than $100,000. The vehicle was parked at Whittaker's house in Scott Depot, West Virginia.In August, more than $500,000 in cash and checks got stolen from h
Jan 20, 2004, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

Louisiana Lottery reports boost due to PowerballNews Story
Louisiana lottery revenue took a significant jump last year, largely because of four Powerball jackpots that exceeded $100 million in the last half of 2003, lottery officials said.During the calendar year 2003, lottery revenue totaled $330.1 million, up from $309.6 million in 2002 and $314.2 million in 2001. The lottery took in $290.2 million in 2000 and $272.1 million in 1999.State government gets at least 35 percent of the lotterys take each fiscal year.Since July, the multistate Powerball gam
Jan 20, 2004, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Scratch-offs bring big cash to statesNews Story
Scratch-off lottery tickets may not produce the drama associated with high-jackpot games like Powerball or Mega Millions, but to most state lotteries they bring in something just as important: money.Lotteries across the country typically make more from scratch-off tickets than either multistate or state online games - the pingpong ball drawings of numbers that offer the larger prizes, according to several lottery officials. In most states across the country they sell far more instant tickets tha
Jan 20, 2004, 6:29 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $46 MillionNews Story
The jackpot keeps growing and hundreds of thousands of players keep winning cash prizes in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 394,159 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.7 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $46 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, January 21 drawing will be an estimated $25 million.The numbers dra
Jan 19, 2004, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery Officials Prepare For Loss Of Tennessee CustomersNews Story
While Tennesseans prepare to win jackpots in their own state for the first time, Kentucky Lottery officials are fretting over the potential lost revenue.Tennessee will launch its first lottery game Tuesday -- scratch-off tickets.Online games are expected to begin by March, and Tennessee likely will join a multistate game like Mega Millions or Powerball by summer.Kentucky Lottery president and chief executive Arch Gleason estimates the state will lose 48.4 million dollars in sales in the 2004-20
Jan 19, 2004, 7:15 am - Lottery News