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Check your tickets: $30M still unclaimedNews Story
Take this $30 million, please.The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has $30.5 million to give away, but nobody is coming forward to take the prize. The jackpot from the April 11 Super 7 draw is still unclaimed after almost six months.It's the largest jackpot on the corporation's books ever to go without being claimed.The winner has up to a year to claim the $30-million prize.If it is not claimed, the money goes back into the general lottery pot for future draws, she said.Lottery officials said th
Sep 29, 2003, 3:29 am - Lottery News

Florida Lotto jackpot rolls over to $9 millionNews Story
No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, causing the current jackpot to roll over to $9 million, lottery officials said Sunday.A total of 63 tickets matched five numbers to win $6,499; 4,585 tickets matched four numbers for $72.50; and 87,981 tickets matched three numbers for $5.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 12-25-26-36-44-48.Two winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $119,246.92 each.The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Miami and Orlando, lottery
Sep 29, 2003, 3:23 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $60 MillionNews Story
Powerball keeps getting bigger and bigger and thousands of players continue to win prizes. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 337,565 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.8 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 $60 million.The cash option for the Saturday, September 27 drawing will be an estimated $31.9 million.The numbers drawn were: 17, 19, 20, 28, 47
Sep 25, 2003, 2:32 am - Lottery News

N.D. rules out credit cards for lotteryNews Story
North Dakota should forbid credit-card sales of lottery tickets, and merchants should have the discretion to decide whether to take gamblers' checks or debit cards, a lottery advisory board concluded Wednesday.The committee, which is made up of three state legislators and two former lawmakers, is helping to write rules to implement North Dakota's entry into the Powerball lottery. State regulators hope to begin Powerball sales by April.Its members voted Wednesday to bar ticket sellers from allowi
Sep 25, 2003, 2:16 am - Lottery News

Lottery board ups goalsNews Story
Profit expectations for Tennessee's new lottery director Rebecca Paul increased Tuesday by roughly $6 million following a vote by the state's lottery board.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) board, due to Paul's starting one week earlier than planned, increased the amount of net proceeds the lottery must garner if Paul is to receive the whole of her $400,000 incentive package. A former goal described by Paul as Herculean -- of $122 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year
Sep 24, 2003, 4:05 am - Lottery News

Paul to run sales, advertising for Tenn. LotteryNews Story
Sales and marketing of the Tennessee lottery will be controlled by lottery head Rebecca Paul, while other aspects of running the games will be handed over to private vendors.That was the style Paul used when she ran the Georgia lottery for 10 years and that's how she plans to run the Tennessee lottery, she said yesterday.On her second day on the job, Paul made several recommendations to the Tennessee lottery board, including what she plans to include in two major contracts with gaming vendors.Bo
Sep 24, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery limits track's winning ticket payoutsNews Story
The Massachusetts lottery will no longer allow the Raynham Park dog track to cash big ticket prizes after a state audit raised concerns that some people use the service to avoid paying taxes.Raynham Park is the only one of 7,300 sales agents that can cash ticket prizes of more than $600. Under the contract, it can cash ticket prizes up to $25,000.But the lottery notified track officials on Tuesday that they will have to comply with the $600 limit, effective in three weeks.Last year, 12 people ma
Sep 24, 2003, 3:40 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $50 MillionNews Story
The excitement is rising along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 367,039 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.8 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 $50 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, September 24 drawing will be an estimated $26.5 million.The numbers drawn were: 11, 13, 28, 31, 33, and the
Sep 22, 2003, 4:08 am - Lottery News

Jacksonville ticket wins $11 million Florida LottoNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $11 million, lottery officials said Saturday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Jacksonville, officials said.A total of 84 tickets matched five numbers to win $5,814.50; 4,511 tickets matched four numbers for $88; and 97,476 tickets matched three numbers for $5.50.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 17-31-33-38-44-53.
Sep 22, 2003, 4:05 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Rises to $102 MillionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $102 million Saturday, the largest Mega Millions jackpot in three months.None of the tickets sold for Friday's $87 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday.There were 11 second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing, matching all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $175,000 each. Forty-six players matched four of the five lotto numbers, plus the M
Sep 20, 2003, 9:01 pm - Lottery News