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Lottery-ticket company wooing TennesseeNews Story
Already the country's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, Scientific Games International is now moving into online gaming and hopes to make Tennessee its newest customer.The Alpharetta, Ga.-based company is one of the companies competing for both the instant and online contracts for the new Tennessee games. Lottery giant GTECH Corp. of Rhode Island is also in the bidding.Scientific Games provides in-stant tickets for two-thirds of state lotteries and more than 50 other countries, and op
Nov 17, 2003, 4:33 am - Lottery News

Airman Returned From Iraq Wins LotteryNews Story
An airman in the Pennsylvania National Guard, who served in the war in Iraq, is $100,000 richer, and he credits the number 13 for his winnings. I'm not superstitious at all. It's a coincidence that catches the eye, Dave Irwin said.It's a coincidence that has paid off for Dave, his wife, Brenda; 5-year-old daughter Cheyne; and 2-year old daughter Carly. Irwin finished 18 months of active duty with the Pennsylvania National Guard in late September, service that included two months on a classified
Nov 14, 2003, 4:50 am - Lottery News

Former police chief wins millions in lotteryNews Story
After 20 years of buying lottery tickets with the same pre-selected numbers, Glenn Phenicie's casual decision on Friday to buy a Maryland Lotto ticket with computer-generated random numbers netted him a $3.4 million payoff.Phenicie, a retired Waynesboro, Pennsylvania police chief, opted to take his winnings in an annuity, which will pay out $95,200 annually after taxes over the next 25 years. He estimates he'll get about $80,000 a year after taxes.Phenicie and his wife, Valerie, claimed their Lo
Nov 12, 2003, 4:16 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Indiana AgainNews Story
People that say lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice haven't spent much time in Indiana. For the third time in the last four drawings, someone from Indiana has won the Powerball jackpot.On Saturday, October 25, a $190.9 million jackpot was split between two tickets; one purchased in Indiana and one in Minnesota. Last Wednesday's $10 million Powerball jackpot was claimed by one winning ticket purchased in the Hoosier state.Wednesday night's $12.8 million jackpot was the 31st Powerball
Nov 6, 2003, 5:10 am - Lottery News

Longtime lottery player's $36 million ticket is worth the waitNews Story
Ever since she turned 18, Tanya Belair has played the Pennsylvania Lottery's jackpot games with mind-numbing regularity.She long ago stopped checking her $5 tickets after each drawing. Instead, the 29-year-old biologist from North Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, stockpiled her chances in a box, checking them en masse when the piles got too big.But that routine was interrupted Oct. 19 when her dad, Frederick, showed her a newspaper report that the winning Super 6 Lotto ticket from the previous
Oct 31, 2003, 5:09 am - Lottery News

Penn. Super 6 Lotto winner presented with $36 million checkNews Story
An Annville, Pennsylvania woman was presented with a check for more than $36 million for matching all six numbers in the Super 6 lottery drawing earlier this month.Tanya Marie Belair, 29, a biologist for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, matched the winning numbers in the Pennsylvania Lottery's Super 6 drawing on Oct. 17. She said she will work with a team of financial and legal advisers to decide how to invest her winnings. I am happy, surprised and grateful to be the winner of this huge lottery payoff,
Oct 30, 2003, 5:21 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In Indiana and MinnesotaNews Story
Powerball paid off big Saturday night for two winning tickets; one sold in Indiana and one sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $190.9 million jackpot.The $190.9 million dollar jackpot is the tenth largest jackpot in lottery history. It ranks as the sixth largest Powerball jackpot ever.Each ticket holder will have to decide if they want the $95.4 million 29- year annuity or the cash option worth $49.7 million. The ticket holders will have 60 days after the tickets are validated to make th
Oct 26, 2003, 1:55 pm - 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

Super 6 jackpot hit for first time in 11 monthsNews Story
One player matched all six winning numbers drawn in Friday's Pennsylvania Super 6 Jackpot, the first time in 11 months that the jackpot has been hit.The winning ticket holder selected the cash payout option, worth $36.1 million. The jackpot had grown to more than $61 million, the third-largest in the game's history. The largest was $73 million.Sales of Super 6 tickets have slowed since the state introduced Powerball -- a multi-state lottery -- in June 2002. The last winning Super 6 ticket w
Oct 18, 2003, 1:57 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $140 MillionNews Story
There were no jackpot winners Wednesday but 722,361 players across the nation won a total of more than $6.5 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 $140 million. That would rank as the 8th largest Powerball jackpot ever.This is the third time this year and the fourth time in the last eleven months that Powerball has crossed over the $100 million mark.The cash option for the Saturday, Octobe
Oct 16, 2003, 5:35 am - Lottery News