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Texas Lottery sales climb by more than 5 percentNews Story
Texas Lottery sales grew by the largest margin in six years, jumping 5 percent in the 2003 fiscal year, the Texas Lottery Commission said Monday. Sales were $3.13 billion for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, compared to $2.96 billion in the previous year, said Reagan Greer, executive director of the commission. This represents the largest increase since 1997.Of the $955.2 million that was transferred to the state, $888.1 million went to the Foundation School Fund, Greer said.Another $67 million
Sep 9, 2003, 3:56 am - Lottery News

New lottery chief gets jackpot, too, if she hits the numbersNews Story
Industry-heralded lottery czar Rebecca Paul could be paid just over $750,000 if:Next year's Tennessee Lottery sells its first scratch-off tickets by Feb.17.Sells its first online tickets 60 days later.And clears $122 million for education by July 1.Those ambitious goals are built into a base- and incentive-pay package worked out with Paul over the weekend by the Tennessee Lottery Board to lure her away from a $500,000-a-year post as chief executive officer of the Georgia Lottery to the same posi
Sep 9, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News

Bad breaks, but then a Lotto luckNews Story
Everything that could go wrong seemed to be going wrong for Joan D. Hoffman over Labor Day weekend. First the stove went. Then the hot water tank.So the Williamsville great-grandmother decided to try changing her luck by buying a Lotto Quick Pick ticket Aug. 30 in the Quality supermarket at Sheridan Drive and Delaware Road in the Town of Tonawanda.Not until she saw the winning numbers the next day - 11, 15, 16, 25, 44 and 47 - did she discover she had won one of the largest Lotto jackpots in Wes
Sep 6, 2003, 5:39 pm - Lottery News

$135 million Powerball jackpot goes to two familiesNews Story
Two families one from New Hampshire and the other from Massachusetts have won last week's $135 million Powerball jackpot. Only one of them went public at a news conference Friday.''I've gambled for 60 years and never won anything,'' said 80-year-old Lawrence Centola of Watertown, Mass. ''This is the first thing I won, so I couldn't believe it.''His daughter, Rosemary Centola, also of Watertown, who works in purchasing at a college, said she wasn't sure what to do with the money because ''it does
Sep 5, 2003, 3:31 pm - Lottery News

$135 Million Powerball Winners From New Hampshire, MassachusettsNews Story
The winners of last week's $135 million Powerball jackpot are from New Hampshire and Massachusetts and will go public this afternoon.The lottery says the winners are family members who live in the Conway, N.H., area and in the greater Boston area. They plan to hold a news conference at the New Hampshire Lottery offices in Concord.The winning ticket is the largest Powerball jackpot ever awarded in New Hampshire. It was sold at the State Line Store in Center Conway, along the Maine border. It's be
Sep 5, 2003, 8:32 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery revenue tops $2 billion for second straight yearNews Story
New Jersey Lottery sales topped the $2 billion mark for the second consecutive year even though sales of tickets for both the Pick 6 Lotto and Lotzee games dropped significantly. The lottery, which is New Jersey's fourth-largest revenue producer, brought in $764 million to state coffers in the fiscal year that ended in June. That was an increase of $10 million over the previous year. The biggest sales gains last year were registered for the state's instant games, which increased by 16.5 percent
Sep 4, 2003, 3:32 am - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines man has mom to thank for the jackpot winningsNews Story
A Pembroke Pines man who originally thought he had won just $4.50 on a Florida Lotto ticket, yesterday redeemed the jackpot winning ticket from the Aug. 23 drawing.Peter J. Pillar, 52, chose a lump sum payment of $15.4 million rather than $27 million paid in 30 annual installments of $900,000. My mother told me I had three numbers right, said Pillar. She didn't tell me she had only heard three numbers. I couldn't believe it, but I had the other three numbers, too. Expecting $4.50, Pillar ask
Sep 3, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News

Supermarket sells another winning lottery ticketNews Story
For the second time, the Quality Market in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, NY has been told it sold the winning ticket for a major lottery prize. Saturday's $33 million New York Lotto jackpot winner purchased the ticket at the same store that sold a $500,000 winner to an Amherst autoworker in January 2000. No one had come forward to claim Saturday's prize by midmorning Tuesday. This is a very exciting time here, the store's manger, Frank Lignos, said. It's a lucky store. More and more people
Sep 2, 2003, 10:16 am - Lottery News

Lottery partnerships have poor track recordNews Story
As Tennessee officials consider a lottery partnership with Georgia, lottery observers warn that similar joint ventures have had their problems. Tensions simmer within a consortium of western Canadian provinces operating a lottery together. Three New England states are starting to go their separate ways. And South Carolina took only a few days before turning down Georgia's offer to join forces.``Some liaisons are not what they're cracked up to be,'' Edward Stanek of Iowa, the country's longest-se
Sep 2, 2003, 3:58 am - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery Plans To Introduce New GameNews Story
The Pennsylvania lottery is currently developing a new pick your own numbers game.The Pennsylvania lottery scored a record $2.1 billion in sales in fiscal year 2002-2003 -- a ten percent increase from the previous year and the largest increase in 19 years.Lottery officials are ecstatic about the impact of the mega-jackpot Powerball game and are now developing a game to compliment Powerball.Lottery director Edward Mahlman says like Powerball, the new game will allow players to pick their own nu
Sep 2, 2003, 3:57 am - Lottery News