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Some lottery winners missing their jackpotsNews Story
True story: Elderly man reads the newspaper every morning in the bathroom. He dies. Widow picks up the old papers, finds a Powerball ticket. Her kids insist: Mom, check it out. She does just in time! Widow claims a $100,000 prize the day before the ticket expires. That story from Karen Emery, deputy director of the Arizona Lottery is a rare happy ending in the history of long-lost lottery tickets. More than a half-billion dollars in lottery prizes went uncollected last y
Dec 6, 2007, 7:14 am - Lottery News

Single winner in $314M Powerball lottery drawingNews Story
There is a winner. Powerball lottery officials say one winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's $314 million jackpot. It was purchased in Indiana. The pot had grown so huge because there had not been a big winner in any of the drawings since late June. Also winning big in the drawing were 36 lucky players who matched the first 5 numbers for a second prize win of $200,000. Winners of the second prize were from the following states: 2 from Arizona, 2 from Connecticut, 3 from W
Aug 26, 2007, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot crosses $300 million boundaryNews Story
The Powerball lottery jackpot for next Saturday will be worth an incredible $300 Million. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off in big ways. Two lucky tickets in Montana and North Carolina won $800,000 cash with the Power Play option. In addition, twelve tickets purchased in Arizona (4), Colorado (1), Idaho (1), North Carolina (3), Pennsylvania (2), and West Virginia (1) each won $200,000 for matching all 5 white numbers. The jackpot for the Satu
Aug 24, 2007, 1:47 am - Lottery News

Company proposes new pooling lottery ticket to fight 'jackpot fatigue'News Story
An Arizona company has designed a new lottery ticket concept that would enter the purchaser in a pool with other lottery players, at the same time entering chances that are not part of the pool. The company claims that the increased number of chances to win will combat jackpot fatigue, a sense of dimished player excitement over large jackpots leading to lower ticket sales. The company hopes to attract state lotteries with its promise of higher sales. According to the company's press reles
Feb 9, 2007, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

Couple wins $15 million lottery jackpot after redeeming $10,000 ticketNews Story
For a Nevada couple, good things come in twos. And that includes winning big Powerball jackpots in Arizona twice. Just days after winning $10,000 with a ticket bought at a northern Arizona caf , Barry and Barbara Salzman traveled to Phoenix to collect their winnings and ended up buying another ticket from the Arizona Lottery office. It just happened to be the $15 million jackpot winner. Of course I don't believe it, I just don't believe it happened, Barry Salzman said at a press confer
Feb 1, 2007, 12:39 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $180 millionNews Story
Powerball will climb to an estimated $180 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening. Even though the jackpot was not hit, one lucky ticket from Pennsylvania won $400,000 cash with the Power Play option. Plus, eight other lucky tickets sold in Arizona (1), Iowa (1), Nebraska (2), New Hampshire (1), Tennessee (1), Wisconsin (1), and West Virginia (1) won $200,000 each for matching all 5 white ball numbers. The jackpot for the Wednesday, January 17th drawin
Jan 15, 2007, 4:42 pm - Lottery News

Minnesota lottery player claims Powerball jackpotNews Story
Michael Hawes and his fiancee were so tickled their baby boy survived a premature birth that they named him Lucky. On Tuesday, the kid had his own reason to be happy: His old man just won $47 million. Hawes, 46, said he had no idea he held the winning ticket in the Nov. 1 drawing until Monday afternoon, when he stopped at a Cub Foods supermarket in Bloomington to buy some pop. While he was there, he decided to get some tickets in his wallet scanned. I brought it to New York and wandered
Dec 7, 2006, 10:15 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winnerNews Story
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning. Powerball officials say one winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn Wednesday night was sold this week. That ticket was sold in North Carolina, although there is no word this morning where that ticket was purchased. The winning numbers were 2, 8, 9, 12 and 19, with the Powerball number of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 3. This is the first Powerball jackpot won w
Nov 30, 2006, 10:06 am - Lottery News

'Arizona 9' claims half of $94.1M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Cheers and shouts filled the lobby of the Arizona Lottery Thursday morning as the terminal rang out We are in the Money, signaling the validation of the winning Powerball jackpot. That's when we knew it was really real, said Tanya Poirier, one of the Arizona 9, a group of seven co-workers and two spouses who shared one-half of a $94.1 million Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, Nov. 1, drawing. Their half of the jackpot came to $47,050,000. Arizona Lottery Executive Director Art Mac
Nov 3, 2006, 8:12 am - Lottery News

New Mexico lottery spends the most on administrative costsNews Story
New Mexico's lottery spends a far greater percentage on administrative costs than almost any other lottery in the nation, and as a result, risks having to make reductions in the lottery scholarship program if changes aren't made. Those are the results of a report issued by Think New Mexico, a public policy group which in the past has successfully lobbied for full-day kindergarten, elimination of the food tax and creation of individual development accounts. This is the first year they're g
Sep 5, 2006, 7:45 am - Lottery News