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Powerball Jackpot Reaches $37 MillionNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is on the rise again. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 331,569 players across the nation won a total of more than $3 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 $37 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 17 drawing will be an estimated $20.3 million.The numbers drawn were: 12, 33, 40, 44, 50 and the Powerball was 40.
Jan 15, 2004, 5:56 am - Lottery News

$210 Million Powerball Jackpot up for Grabs on New Year's EveNews Story
Lottery players around the world will have more than 200 million reasons to celebrate New Year's Eve this year. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $210 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The $210 million jackpot would rank as the 5th largest Powerball jackpot ever, and would rank as the 7th largest lottery jackpot all-time. The cash option for the Wednesday, December 31 drawi
Dec 29, 2003, 5:22 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Soars to $170 MillionNews Story
The year may be winding down but Powerball is gearing up. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $170 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The $170 million jackpot would rank as the 7th largest Powerball jackpot ever. The cash option for the Saturday, December 27 drawing will be an estimated $92.1 million.There were no jackpot winners Wednesday but 1,282,948 players across the nation won
Dec 26, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Rolls To $137 MillionNews Story
Visions of Powerball tickets will be dancing in the heads of lottery players across the nation this Christmas Eve. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $137 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The cash option for the Wednesday, December 24 drawing will be an estimated $74.4 million.There may have been no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 770,912 players across the nation won a total
Dec 22, 2003, 6:16 am - Lottery News

Other vendors could have saved Tenn. lottery $23MNews Story
While Tennessee's lottery won uncommonly good rates from two companies vying to sell lottery tickets here next year, those rates were not the lowest offered.Indeed, they were the highest.The difference: an estimated $23 million over the seven-year term of the contracts.That's enough to help put almost 2,000 students through four years of college the intended purpose of the lottery.Lottery officials say there were good reasons for rejecting the lowest rates. They had concerns about the reliabilit
Dec 22, 2003, 6:12 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows To $76 MillionNews Story
The excitement is growing along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 400,553 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.7 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 $76 million. That's the largest current lottery jackpot in the nation.The cash option for the Wednesday, December 10 drawing will be an estimated $40.9 m
Dec 8, 2003, 4:47 am - Lottery News

Powerball Soars to $57 MillionNews Story
If you are looking for the largest current lottery jackpot in the country, look no further than Powerball. There were no jackpot winners Saturday but 352,127 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.5 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 $57 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, December 3 drawing will be an estimated $30.6 million.The numbers drawn were: 14, 36, 39, 43,
Dec 1, 2003, 5:51 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Soars to $190 MillionNews Story
Fourteen Powerball players across the nation were just one ball shy of winning the world's largest current lottery jackpot Wednesday night. The ball those players were missing was the Powerball.Powerball is the most exciting and well-known lottery game in the world, just ask the nearly one million players that collected cash prizes Wednesday night.There were no jackpot winners but 930,975 players across the nation won a total of more than $7.7 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one c
Oct 23, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

Paul's lottery past: rocky beginnings, happier endingsNews Story
It's only in hindsight that critics of Rebecca Paul's lottery startups give her creditRebecca Paul's admirers outnumber her critics by a long shot in Georgia's capital city.But the critics were hot when Paul was starting the state's lottery in 1993. Ten years later, Tennessee has hired her to do the same thing for up to $752,500 a year.Georgia's lottery drew close scrutiny from state lawmakers and federal prosecutors after awarding a key startup contract to a vendor whose bid was millions of dol
Oct 20, 2003, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $162 MillionNews Story
The biggest current lottery jackpot in the world is getting bigger.There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 839,469 players across the nation won a total of more than $7.7 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 $162 million. That would rank as the 6th largest Powerball jackpot ever.This is the third time this year and the fourth time in the last eleven months that Powerball has c
Oct 20, 2003, 4:22 am - Lottery News