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Powerball Jackpot Reaches $28 MillionNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is on the way up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 320,334 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.8 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 $28 million.The cash option for the Saturday, August 28 drawing will be an estimated $15.3 million.The numbers drawn were: 1, 30, 32, 37, 50 and the Powerball was 19. The
Aug 26, 2004, 7:45 am - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery has record salesNews Story
Arizonans pursuing quick riches bought a record $366.6 million in Lottery tickets in the year that ended June 30, a nearly 14 percent gain over the previous 12 months.From those sales, a record $107.8 million was distributed to eight state funds that aid everything from parks to mass transportation and abused children.Arizona's percentage increase was the highest among Western states with similar gambling environments, according to Lottery officials. Lottery sales in California, which also has I
Aug 26, 2004, 7:43 am - Lottery News

Powerball jackpot grows to $21 millionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $21 million for Wednesday, since no one matched all six numbers drawn in Saturday nights game.The winning numbers were: 3, 16, 27, 39, and 40. The Powerball was 3, and the Power Play number was 5.Players matching the five white numbers plus the red Powerball would have won or shared the $13.9 million jackpot.5 tickets sold in Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Wisconsin missed the Powerball, but matched the five other numbers, to win $10
Aug 23, 2004, 7:58 am - Lottery News

Deadline approaches for $4.7 million lottery prizeNews Story
Hoosier Lottery officials say time is running out for the winner of a $4.7 million lottery prize to come forward.The ticket matched all six numbers in the Hoosier Lotto drawing on March 10. The winning numbers were 3, 5, 22, 36, 38 and 44.The deadline to claim the prize is Sept. 5.The winning ticket was purchased at a Shell gas station in Kentland, about 55 miles south of Gary. Kentland Shell manager Carol Metz said she hasn't even heard any rumors about a winner.Indiana law says that if a lotte
Aug 16, 2004, 3:09 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery Jackpot Approaches $100 Million MarkNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game is fast approaching the $100 million mark. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 504,026 players across the nation won a total of almost $5 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 $97 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The cash option for the Saturday, August 14 drawing will be an estimated $52.5 m
Aug 12, 2004, 8:32 am - Lottery News

$76 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
The jackpot in America's favorite lottery game just keeps on growing. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 440,044 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 Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $76 million.The cash option for the Saturday, August 7 drawing will be an estimated $39.6 million.The numbers drawn were: 11, 22, 26, 37, 51 and the Powerball was 21.
Aug 5, 2004, 7:00 am - Lottery News

Maine Powerball sales strongNews Story
In a little less than 34 hours, Mainers gobbled up $536,191 worth of Powerball tickets to propel the state into the top three markets in the country for the game's Saturday night drawing.Pam Coutts, executive director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, said Monday that total sales for the new Powerball lottery game were actually $570,779, including tickets purchased for future drawings beyond Saturday's game. The huge response to the multimillion-dollar lottery game dis
Aug 3, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $63 MillionNews Story
America's favorite lottery game is on a roll. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 428,713 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.4 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 $63 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, August 4 drawing will be an estimated $33 million.The numbers drawn were: 14, 31, 35, 45, 47 and the Powerball was 35. The Power Play multiplier
Aug 2, 2004, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Ignites Controversy with Computerized DrawingsNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveFalling in lockstep with a controversial industry trend, the Missouri Lottery decided to change its lottery drawings from mechanical lottery ball machines to a random number generator computer system.Opponents of the computerized drawings say that computers cannot achieve the true randomness of a physical drawing mechanism, mainly due to computers' inherent non-random properties.In addition, with computer hacking, viruses, and tampering on the rise, concerned citizens worry
Jul 21, 2004, 10:15 am - Lottery News

$294M lottery winner is 68-year-old cleaning womanNews Story
Updated July 09, 2004, 11:21pmThe winner of the $294 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest in Massachusetts lottery history, is a 68-year-old cleaning woman.Geraldine Williams cleaned homes after retiring as a custodian at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, The Sun of Lowell reported Friday. She was a wonderful person, Mary Recko, a worker in the physical plant department at UMass-Lowell, told The Associated Press on Friday. Everybody liked her. All of us here are so happy that it wa
Jul 9, 2004, 11:08 am - Lottery News