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$315M Lottery Winner Shuns AttentionNews Story
$315M Lottery Winner Andrew Whittaker Says He Wishes He'd Been Quieter About Hitting JackpotThe letters never stop. Requests, pleas, hard-luck stories, tales to break your heart: thousands of them, enough to fill hip-high filing cabinets that line three conference-room walls in Andrew Jack Whittaker's new office.They come by the dozens, day after day, though it has been a year since Whittaker won the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history $314.9 million, payable in an after-tax lum
Dec 26, 2003, 3:50 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

Des Moines Cop Could Be Lottery WinnerNews Story
Patrol Officer Daniel Good Suspected Of Winning $1.65 MillionHot Lotto's latest millionaire could be one of Des Moines' finest.Several officers at the Des Moines Police Department said that patrol officer Daniel Good is the person who bought a Hot Lotto ticket worth $1.65 million. Everybody's talking about it. It's a great thing for him, said Capt. Craig Zubrod. I'm very happy for him. A little bit envious, I think we all are, but he's a good guy and I'm glad he got it, Zubrod said.The ticket
Dec 24, 2003, 6:59 am - Lottery News

Lottery 'winner' sues for $63MNews Story
All he wants for Christmas is $63 million - plus interest.A Brooklyn man has filed suit against New York Lottery, claiming he won last year's Mega Millions drawing on Christmas Eve.Dr. Fritzner Bechette claims he lost the ticket in a non-retrievable situation and has tried to claim the prize since last Dec. 25.Lottery officials say the ticket is worth $68 million. It wasn't immediately clear why Bechette is suing for $5 million less. The suit was filed in Queens Supreme Court last week.The dea
Dec 23, 2003, 5:37 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

Multi-state jackpots could bring holiday cheerNews Story
Just in time for the holidays, the nation's two multi-state lottery games have jackpots that have grown to thresholds that usually produce frenzied buying.The Mega Millions game, played in eleven states, now has a jackpot of $100 million dollars for Tuesday night's drawing.The Powerball game, played in 24 states, Washington D.C., and the Virgin Islands, is now sporting a top prize of $137 million dollars for Wednesday's drawing.If all this seems eerily familiar, that may be because last December
Dec 22, 2003, 6:18 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Rolls To $137 MillionNews Story
Visions of Powerball tickets will be dancing in the heads of lottery players across the nation this Christmas Eve. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $137 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The cash option for the Wednesday, December 24 drawing will be an estimated $74.4 million.There may have been no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 770,912 players across the nation won a total
Dec 22, 2003, 6:16 am - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery To Scrap Super 6 LottoNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery has decided to scrap its 5-year-old Super Six Lotto game because sales have been hurt by the introduction of the multistate Powerball game.Super Six offers prizes for matching at least three out of six numbers. State revenue department officials said the game will end around late January and be replaced with a new game -- Match Six Lotto -- which offers more ways to win.Super Six sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2002 were about $225 million. Officials said
Dec 19, 2003, 3:19 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions boosts Texas lottery salesNews Story
Lottery ticket sales have increased an average of 30 percent since Texas joined the multistate lottery Mega Millions two weeks ago, state officials said Thursday.But the increase accompanied an advertising push to promote the new game. Lottery officials cautioned that more time is needed to determine the long-term impact of Mega Millions on existing games.The two-week revenue on overall lottery ticket sales increased from an average of $56 million before Mega Millions to $65 million during the p
Dec 19, 2003, 3:18 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $116 MillionNews Story
Powerball tickets are the perfect stocking stuffer this holiday shopping season for lottery players across the nation. The reason? Powerball has the largest current lottery jackpot in the world.There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 706,567 players across the nation won a total of more than $6.1 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $116 million.This is the fourth time this
Dec 18, 2003, 4:17 am - Lottery News