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Bigger jackpot means higher lottery salesNews Story
Despite an alluring $115 million jackpot, Marion Blackwell didn't play Powerball Tuesday.The woman instead purchased tickets for the Daily 3 and Daily 4 drawing at the Blue Flash Food Mart on Cumberland Road. It was just a few months ago when Hobert Parnell of Rocky Gap, Va., won a $62.4 million Powerball jackpot at the same Bluefield store in late March.Blackwell said she normally doesn't play Powerball until the jackpot climbs above $150 million. I don't play Powerball until it gets real high,
Aug 27, 2003, 3:15 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery Winner to Stay AnonymousNews Story
If you won almost $2 million playing the lottery would you want everyone to know who you were?Kansas Lottery officials have honored the request of the record-setting winner of the Super Kansas Cash drawing Wednesday to stay anonymous. The winner, a woman from Manhattan, Kansas, is $1,935,001 richer after Wednesday's Super Kansas Cash drawing.The woman, who purchased the ticket at the Shop Quik at 3108 Anderson Ave., also earned the store $1,000 bonus for issuing the winning ticket. She matched
Aug 26, 2003, 8:39 am - Lottery News

$115 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
If you are looking for fun, excitement, and the biggest lottery jackpot in the world look no further than Powerball. There were no jackpot winners Saturday but 759,003 Powerball players across the nation won a total of more than $5.2 million in prizes in America's Game. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $115 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, August 27 drawing will be an estimated $59.5 million.The numbers drawn were:
Aug 25, 2003, 3:48 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to $26 MillionNews Story
The summer is hot and so is Mega Millions. With nine different ways to win, Mega Millions players won more than $1.8 million in Friday's drawing. A total of 241,772 tickets won prizes ranging from $2 to $175,000. Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $21 million jackpot, that jackpot now grows to an estimated $26 million for the Tuesday, August 26, 2003 drawing.Friday's winning Mega Millions numbers were 04-19-31-32-51 and the Mega Ball number was 31.Four tickets came w
Aug 25, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines hits Lotto jackpot for a 4th timeNews Story
Who said lightning can't strike twice?It hit in this city for the fourth time in 11 years on Saturday when a Florida Lotto ticket, a Quick Pick, matched all six numbers in the $27 million drawing.Because it was the only ticket in Florida with the right combination, 7-8-16-19-47-52, the person who bought the ticket in S.K. Ali's convenience store will get the entire pot.Ali late Sunday didn't know which of his customers beat the 22,957,480-to-1 odds, but the 40-year-old manager of the Columbus Fo
Aug 25, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Winners in waitingNews Story
Teri and Cornell Davis may be lottery millionaires, but so far their lives lack bling.There are no new clothes or shoes, no marathon shopping sprees or impromptu luxury vacations - yet.The Englewood couple virtually ended up homeless when they hurriedly moved out of their rented Palisade Avenue home - in anticipation of purchasing their own place - after hitting the jackpot in March.But five months later, Teri and Cornell Davis are still empty-handed. They hope to receive their $25.4 million lum
Aug 22, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News

Elderly Couple Going to Court Over Million-dollar Lottery TicketNews Story
A Long Island couple married for 16 years recently bought a New York Lottery ticket and won $25 million. Then the divorce papers were filed, and the lottery jackpot is now at the center of a bitter custody battle.Long Island correspondent Lauren DeFranco files this report from Garden City.We're told the wife in the case went to collect the millions at the Claim Center in Garden City. Now the husband's afraid he won't see a penny of it, so he's taking the Mrs. to court.Kenneth Parker, Lottery Win
Aug 22, 2003, 3:50 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Soars to $100 MillionNews Story
Summer may be winding down but the excitement surrounding America's favorite lottery game is heating up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 488,267 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.9 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 $100 million. That's the largest current lottery jackpot in the world.This is the second time this year and the third time in the
Aug 21, 2003, 9:14 am - Lottery News

One of these days, someone is going to win Super Six jackpotNews Story
It's been more than nine months since the last time anyone won the Pennsylvania Lottery's Super Six jackpot.This may well be the most elusive jackpot of all time.The last Super Six jackpot, won on Nov. 8, 2002, has been followed by 81 straight rollovers and now stands at $27.5 million. In the world of lottery jackpots, 20 rollovers is a long run. Eighty-one rollovers is astounding.Not that there isn't a perfectly reasonable mathematical explanation.It boils down to the fact that fewer people buy
Aug 21, 2003, 3:23 am - Lottery News

Pensioner woozy after near-win lottery sagaNews Story
An Italian pensioner felt faint and had to be taken to hospital when he realised he had forgotten to hand in a lottery ticket that could have won him 66-million (US$73.4 million). He was so busy organising his daughter's wedding that he forgot to take his slip to the lottery office when Europe's biggest-ever jackpot was up for grabs last week. When he realised he had guessed the correct six-figure number, he felt faint and had to be admitted to a hospital near Rome, Italian news agencies s
Aug 20, 2003, 3:21 am - Lottery News