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Powerball lottery jackpot zooms to $120 millionNews Story
The excitement is rising along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 694,536 players across the nation won a total of more than $5.7 million in prizes in America's Game. Sixteen of those players were just the Powerball away from winning the jackpot.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $120 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the nation
Apr 26, 2004, 7:07 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery sales strong in TennesseeNews Story
Thousands buy chance on $90 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials sayPowerball is off to a blistering pace.Lured by tomorrow night's $90 million jackpot in the multistate game, thousands of Tennesseans bought a chance to win the big money yesterday on the first day of Powerball sales in this state. By 11:30 (a.m.), we had sales of $200,000 for Powerball tickets, said Rebecca Paul, CEO and president of the Tennessee Lottery.By 5 p.m., that figure had risen to about $500,000, and few glitc
Apr 20, 2004, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery works to counter revenue lossNews Story
Even as they celebrated the 15th anniversary of the start-up of the Kentucky Lottery and predicted a strong finish to the fiscal year lottery officials acknowledged an uncertain future yesterday.That's due in large part to new competition from a neighbor. Tennessee, whose residents once were responsible for 12 percent to 15 percent of the Kentucky Lottery's sales, started its own lottery this year.Yesterday, Tennessee added the Powerball to its lineup.Kentucky Lottery spokesman Chip Polston said
Apr 20, 2004, 7:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball may draw new kind of Tennessee lottery playerNews Story
In the three months since lottery sales began in Tennessee, Paul Cressend has yet to buy a ticket in his home state.Instead, the health insurance salesman tries his luck in Georgia, Florida and Kentucky.That's because all three participate in either Mega Millions or Powerball, multistate games that award jackpots in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Tennessee's highest prize for state-sponsored games is $1 million. If they had big enough jackpots I'd buy lottery tickets in Tennessee, Cressen
Apr 19, 2004, 6:19 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery puts dent in Southern Kentucky salesNews Story
Lotto Land is located along Interstate 65 in Southern Kentucky, well positioned to win the business of Tennesseans who long lacked their own state lottery.But Lotto Land, in Franklin, and other Kentucky Lottery retailers along the border have seen a slowdown in sales since Tennessee's lottery started Jan. 20 with four scratch-off games.Lottery sales in seven border counties fell by 12 percent in the Tennessee lottery's first five weeks, according to the Kentucky Lottery Corp. The dropoff is expe
Apr 6, 2004, 4:12 am - Lottery News

Georgia bankers claim $19 million Lotto South jackpotNews Story
For those looking for a job in banking, sit tight. There may be two openings soon.Sam and Ronnie Deli, two bankers from Suwanee, Georgia, won the Lotto South $19 million jackpot Saturday, according to Georgia Lottery Corp. officials. The couple took the ticket with the winning numbers 1, 16, 30, 41, 47 and 49 Monday to the lottery's offices in Atlanta, where it was verified. In a statement released Monday by the Georgia Lottery, Sam Deli, 54, said he learned that he had the winning ticket on Sun
Apr 6, 2004, 4:04 am - Lottery News

Powerball Reaches $31 MillionNews Story
March may be winding down but the action in America's favorite lottery game is heating up. More people are playing, and more people are winning Powerball.There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 335,493 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.8 million in prizes in America's Game.North Dakota players got their first taste of Powerball this week. Tickets went on sale for the first time Thursday morning and Saturday night's drawing produced more than 7,000 cash prize winn
Mar 29, 2004, 4:48 am - Lottery News

Beware of Phony Prize Promotions, Lottery Schemes, and Bogus E-mailsNews Story
By now, most people who use e-mail on a regular basis are quite familiar with the word spam and what it looks like in their e-mail in-box. If it wasn't frustrating enough to sort through and fill your trash with junk (postal) mail every day or answer unsolicited telemarketing calls during the dinner hour, now these nuisances and fraudulent schemes have found a new way into our homes and offices through e-mail.According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers in the United States an
Mar 26, 2004, 9:22 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $18 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 335,839 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.1 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 $18 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, March 24 drawing will be an estimated $10.3 million.The numbers drawn were: 2, 14, 24, 27, 44, and the Powerball was 6. The Power Play multiplier was 5.Five players correctly matched the 5 wh
Mar 22, 2004, 4:29 am - Lottery News

$12 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 315,941 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 $12 million.The cash option for the Saturday, March 20 drawing will be an estimated $6.7 million.The numbers drawn were: 7, 15, 20, 24, 43 and the Powerball was 5. The Power Play multiplier was 4.Six players correctly matched the 5 whit
Mar 18, 2004, 4:34 am - Lottery News