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$54 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
Summer may be over but Powerball is just starting to heat up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 410,531 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.8 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 $54 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, September 8 drawing will be an estimated $29.1 million.The numbers drawn were: 13, 15, 25, 26, 46 and the Powerball was 28. The P
Sep 7, 2004, 10:09 am - Lottery News

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

Pennsylvania Lottery Numbers Drawing SuspicionsNews Story
The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.Yesterday, 5048 was the winning Big 4 number, as seen on Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Results Page. On Saturday, 8504 was the winning number, and 5408 hit on Friday.Also, 4508 hit in the Aug. 9 midday Big 4 drawing.The odds of any one four-digit number hitting on a given day are 1-in-10,000. Someone who regularly plays a boxed ticket -- that is, uses the same four digits, but rearranges them t
Aug 24, 2004, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Midday Mistake Leads to Questions About DrawingsNews Story
When news outlets received the results of the Pennsylvania midday lottery drawing 20 minutes earlier than usual, some questioned how the non-televised drawing operates. Sales for the Daily Number and Big 4 midday drawing end at 1:05 pm every day. Until recently, the Pennsylvania Lottery website had said the drawing took place at 1:35 pm daily. But this week, news organizations received the midday drawing results around 1:15 pm. Now, lottery officials say the website was wrong and new
Aug 21, 2004, 3:40 pm - Lottery News

$84 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For GrabsNews Story
Summer may be nearing an end but Powerball is just starting to heat up. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 534,432 players across the nation won a total of more than $5.3 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 $84 million. That's the largest current lottery jackpot in the country.The cash option for the Wednesday, August 11 drawing will be an estimated $45.3 million. The nu
Aug 9, 2004, 8:30 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

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $27 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 351,620 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.6 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 $27 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, July 21 drawing will be an estimated $14.5 million.The numbers drawn were: 20, 23, 36, 45, 50 and the Powerball was 9. The Power Play multiplier was 3.Three players correctly matched the 5 wh
Jul 19, 2004, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery has record salesNews Story
Lottery Sales Increase by More Than 10 Percent for Second Straight YearThe Pennsylvania Lottery, the only state lottery to designate all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents, had record sales of $2.35 billion in fiscal 2003-04, topping the old record of $2.13 billion, set in 2002-03, by $219 million or 10.3 percent. This has been a tremendous year for the Pennsylvania Lottery and for the hundreds of thousands of older Pennsylvanians who benefit from Lottery-funded programs, sai
Jul 13, 2004, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Lottery fever hits mega heightsNews Story
Paul Singh had customers lined up at the door at 4 a.m. when he opened his convenience store Thursday on South Main Street in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.With the multi-state Mega Millions jackpot reaching record heights, a steady stream of customers are stopping in to buy a ticket that for one lucky player could be the answer to all their dreams. Most people we get are from Pennsy, Singh, owner of Paul Mart, said.While Pennsylvania participates in the 26-state Powerball lottery, locals stricken w
Jul 2, 2004, 8:51 am - Lottery News

Ex-lottery manager sues Penn. officialsNews Story
A former Republican state House candidate from Bethlehem is claiming that Democratic state officials violated her rights by firing her from the Pennsylvania Lottery for political reasons.Pamela Opp, who was the lottery's Lehigh Valley manager, is suing state officials, alleging that they violated her rights to freedom of speech and association by replacing her with a Democrat.Her replacement, Craig Rogan, supported Democrat Ed Rendell for governor, according to her federal lawsuit, and he previo
Jun 30, 2004, 8:06 am - Lottery News