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UK Lottery chiefs may double ticket pricesNews Story
The price of a National Lottery ticket could rise - and even double to 2 - under plans being considered by the operator Camelot, it emerged today.Lottery executives are concerned that they are missing out on huge profits because the cost of playing the main game Lotto has not risen with inflation.As sales of tickets for the game continue to fall, it is thought that a price rise could help to push the company's finances - and the money raised for good causes - back up.Chief executive Dianne Thom
Aug 5, 2003, 4:59 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows To $42 MillionNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game keeps growing and growing. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 369,986 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.6 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 $42 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, August 6 drawing will be an estimated $21.9 million.The numbers drawn were: 17, 40, 41, 42, 46, and the Powerball wa
Aug 4, 2003, 8:05 am - Lottery News

Lottery Sales Hit Record In KansasNews Story
A new marketing strategy designed to keep games fresh and payoffs healthy helped send sales of the Kansas Lottery to record levels, officials said Thursday.Sales topped $202.9 million for fiscal year 2003, which ended June 30, an increase of $12.9 million from the previous year. As a result, the Kansas Lottery transferred $62.9 million to the state, of which $50 million was transferred to the state gaming fund to finance economic development initiatives.For the year, the lottery paid $107.6 mill
Aug 1, 2003, 8:11 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $33 MillionNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is on the move again. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 301,747 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.2 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 $33 million.The cash option for the Saturday, August 2 drawing will be an estimated $18 million.The numbers drawn were: 18, 22, 26, 31, 49 and the Powerball was 28. T
Jul 31, 2003, 6:34 am - Lottery News

Lottery option attractive for some OklahomansNews Story
As state lotteries continue to turn ordinary citizens into millionaires, the option looks more and more attractive to Oklahoma lawmakers and advocates looking for a way to ease the state's budgetary woes.America's game, PowerBall, paid off big for two winning tickets earlier this month - one sold in Missouri and one in Pennsylvania.The news came out July 9, and the winners will split a $261.3 million PowerBall jackpot. Both winners had the option of taking a 29-year annuity or the cash, worth $7
Jul 31, 2003, 6:31 am - Lottery News

Judge Refuses To Dismiss Lawsuit Over $25M Lottery TicketNews Story
A judge Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a group of Englewood hospital workers who claim they were cheated out of a $25 million lottery prize. Superior Court Judge Marguerite Simon said even though the workers have not established any direct proof that they were wronged, there was enough circumstantial evidence to continue the case. The 20 workers claim a colleague, Jamal Townes, bought the ticket with money from an office lottery pool but gave it to Teri and Cornell Davis of Englewood,
Jul 31, 2003, 4:31 am - Lottery News

Lottery official testifies couple won $25MNews Story
A top New Jersey Lottery official testified yesterday that his own investigation into a disputed $25 million prize found that the winning ticket belongs to an Englewood couple now at the center of a legal battle over the money.At the same time, Raymond Ryan, the lottery's deputy director for security and licensing, said he could not substantiate a claim by 20 Englewood Hospital workers that the ticket was really theirs.The workers have filed a lawsuit in which they claim their office lottery poo
Jul 30, 2003, 3:54 am - Lottery News

Florida Man Claims $12 Million JackpotNews Story
Seven years of playing the same lotto numbers paid off big for a Palm City (Martin County) man. Tuesday he redeemed the jackpot ticket from the June 18 Florida Lotto drawing worth an estimated $12 million.Keith Hansen, 50, a shop foreman from Palm City, traveled to Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee today to collect his prize. He could have received his winnings in 30 annual installments of approximately $400,000(1) per year, but instead he chose a lump-sum payment of $7,902,231.19.Total ticket
Jul 30, 2003, 3:49 am - Lottery News

Lottery hits sales record, falls short of expectationsNews Story
The Maryland Lottery inched to new records in sales and payments into state coffers this year, but its tiny gains left it short of the revenue expectations built into the state budget. The lottery agency released figures yesterday for the fiscal year that ended June 30 showing that sales increased $15 million to $1.32 billion - a 1.1 percent increase. The amount of money paid to the state increased slightly less than $1 million to $444 million, according to lottery Director Buddy Roogow.In its a
Jul 30, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News

$5 million Texas Lottery jackpot unclaimedNews Story
As the midnight deadline passed Monday night, Kenneth Ford locked the doors of the Texas Lottery Commission claims department, and $5 million dollars quietly went unclaimed.Ford and Jesse Ireland, lottery specialists, volunteered to be the two of six commission employees to keep vigil until the 180-day deadline to claim the jackpot that expired at midnight. They said they volunteered because overtime is hard to come by, especially within a state agency. The best I can say is, you know, I don't
Jul 30, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News