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Bigger jackpot means higher lottery salesNews Story
Despite an alluring $115 million jackpot, Marion Blackwell didn't play Powerball Tuesday.The woman instead purchased tickets for the Daily 3 and Daily 4 drawing at the Blue Flash Food Mart on Cumberland Road. It was just a few months ago when Hobert Parnell of Rocky Gap, Va., won a $62.4 million Powerball jackpot at the same Bluefield store in late March.Blackwell said she normally doesn't play Powerball until the jackpot climbs above $150 million. I don't play Powerball until it gets real high,
Aug 27, 2003, 3:15 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery Winner to Stay AnonymousNews Story
If you won almost $2 million playing the lottery would you want everyone to know who you were?Kansas Lottery officials have honored the request of the record-setting winner of the Super Kansas Cash drawing Wednesday to stay anonymous. The winner, a woman from Manhattan, Kansas, is $1,935,001 richer after Wednesday's Super Kansas Cash drawing.The woman, who purchased the ticket at the Shop Quik at 3108 Anderson Ave., also earned the store $1,000 bonus for issuing the winning ticket. She matched
Aug 26, 2003, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Lottery board sets criteria for ticket sellersNews Story
Retailers who want to sell tickets for the new Tennessee lottery must abide by a list of criteria set Monday by the lottery corporation board.Among the criteria for prospective lottery retailers:Cannot be in business exclusively to sell lottery tickets.Must be current in filing and paying all Tennessee taxes.Cannot have a criminal record relating to the ''security and integrity'' of the lottery.Cannot reside in the same household as a lottery director, officer or employee of the corporation.Cann
Aug 26, 2003, 3:32 am - Lottery News

$115 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
If you are looking for fun, excitement, and the biggest lottery jackpot in the world look no further than Powerball. There were no jackpot winners Saturday but 759,003 Powerball players across the nation won a total of more than $5.2 million in prizes in America's Game. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $115 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, August 27 drawing will be an estimated $59.5 million.The numbers drawn were:
Aug 25, 2003, 3:48 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to $26 MillionNews Story
The summer is hot and so is Mega Millions. With nine different ways to win, Mega Millions players won more than $1.8 million in Friday's drawing. A total of 241,772 tickets won prizes ranging from $2 to $175,000. Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $21 million jackpot, that jackpot now grows to an estimated $26 million for the Tuesday, August 26, 2003 drawing.Friday's winning Mega Millions numbers were 04-19-31-32-51 and the Mega Ball number was 31.Four tickets came w
Aug 25, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Lawmakers approve change to Oregon lottery lawNews Story
Lawmakers are counting on the Oregon State Lottery to gin up an extra $67 million. It's in the budget plan that's steaming through the assembly en route to the governor's desk. The Senate on Saturday voted 18-9 to change the law so bars and taverns can add a sixth video poker terminal - a move that's projected to generate $22 million.But how exactly the lottery is supposed to come up with the remaining $45 million is up in the air. We leave that to the able discretion of the governor and the Lot
Aug 25, 2003, 3:41 am - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines hits Lotto jackpot for a 4th timeNews Story
Who said lightning can't strike twice?It hit in this city for the fourth time in 11 years on Saturday when a Florida Lotto ticket, a Quick Pick, matched all six numbers in the $27 million drawing.Because it was the only ticket in Florida with the right combination, 7-8-16-19-47-52, the person who bought the ticket in S.K. Ali's convenience store will get the entire pot.Ali late Sunday didn't know which of his customers beat the 22,957,480-to-1 odds, but the 40-year-old manager of the Columbus Fo
Aug 25, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Transmission failure shuts down NJ lottery machinesNews Story
Lottery machines in a number of New Jersey retail stores shut down early Friday afternoon due to problems with faulty data communication lines. According to New Jersey Lottery spokesperson Jaimee Gilmartin, the problem originated with Verizon's branch office in Hamilton Square, N.J., which manages data transmissions for lottery machines in retail stores throughout southern New Jersey. The lottery green machines , as they are called, depend on these transmissions.Gilmartin said the data communi
Aug 23, 2003, 9:43 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Answers PrayersNews Story
Doris Rabik was tickled pink.Watching the Powerball numbers roll across her TV screen Saturday, it looked as if she had four of the five numbers - worth $400! - on the ticket she bought at a Murrells Inlet Scotchman. I went on to bed because I thought I only had four numbers, she said.The next day, she pulled the ticket out again. Rabik, who lives in a public housing complex in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, didn't just have four matching numbers.She had all five - worth $500,000. It really didn
Aug 22, 2003, 9:14 pm - Lottery News

Computer problem shut down lottery machines across CaliforniaNews Story
Roughly 19,000 lottery machines shut down across the state Wednesday, with more than 2,300 in Southern California -- including the Coachella Valley, according to the California Lottery.Norma Minas, a spokeswoman with the California Lottery, said that the problem was thought to be caused by a software flaw.Minas said she had not heard anything about the problem being caused by recent e-mail virus attacks striking computers around the world, and that stores would not likely be facing legions of up
Aug 22, 2003, 4:13 am - Lottery News