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Mega Millions Jackpot Surges to $125 MillionNews Story
No Mega Millions tickets matched all six numbers in last night's drawing, increasing the estimated jackpot for the Friday, December 26, 2003 drawing is $125 million, with a cash option of $73 million.The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing were: 02-13-21-22-49 and the last Mega Ball number was 52.Fourteen winning tickets sold in Tuesday's drawing will allow players to do some last minute shopping with the $175,000 second prize they won by matching first five numbers and only missing the last Me
Dec 24, 2003, 7:10 am - Lottery News

Powerball sales brisk for tonight's $137 million drawingNews Story
Visions of money stacks are dancing in the heads of Powerball players who recall the $314 million Christmas Day jackpot won by a West Virginia man last year.This year's holiday week drawing is on Christmas Eve and has fueled a spike in Powerball ticket purchases. I think people are out there spending their money left and right and there's always that little glimmer of hope that this will be a wonderful Christmas, said Mark Kempton, manager of Eddy's, a Council Bluffs gas station. It would make
Dec 24, 2003, 7:03 am - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery Drawing to Name Five Finalists For $2,000,000News Story
Five lucky Michigan Lottery players will be one step closer to becoming an instant multi-millionaire on Friday, January 9, 2004. That is when the Michigan Lottery will be conducting a drawing to select five finalists who will participate in a grand-prize drawing for the $2,000,000 Fortune instant game.The $2,000,000 Fortune game is different from most other Michigan Lottery instant games because the $2,000,000 top prize will be awarded through a drawing. Winners of $1,000 prizes in the $2,
Dec 24, 2003, 6:55 am - Lottery News

Multi-state jackpots could bring holiday cheerNews Story
Just in time for the holidays, the nation's two multi-state lottery games have jackpots that have grown to thresholds that usually produce frenzied buying.The Mega Millions game, played in eleven states, now has a jackpot of $100 million dollars for Tuesday night's drawing.The Powerball game, played in 24 states, Washington D.C., and the Virgin Islands, is now sporting a top prize of $137 million dollars for Wednesday's drawing.If all this seems eerily familiar, that may be because last December
Dec 22, 2003, 6:18 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Rolls To $137 MillionNews Story
Visions of Powerball tickets will be dancing in the heads of lottery players across the nation this Christmas Eve. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $137 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The cash option for the Wednesday, December 24 drawing will be an estimated $74.4 million.There may have been no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 770,912 players across the nation won a total
Dec 22, 2003, 6:16 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions jackpot increases to $100 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $100 million Saturday. None of the tickets sold for Friday's $85 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday.There were 11 second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing, winning $175,000 each. Also, 46 players matched four of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball number. Those tickets are each worth $5,000.The winning numbers from Friday's drawing were: 5, 10, 17, 3
Dec 20, 2003, 9:15 am - Lottery News

60 Winners Made Official in First Big Sleigh DrawingNews Story
Sixty Missouri Lottery winners are now official in the first of three Big Sleigh Giveaway drawings.The winners, whose names and hometowns are posted at molottery.com, won:Four first prizes of the winner's choice of either a $4,500 travel certificate plus $500 spending cash or a $5,000 home furnishings certificate,Six second-prizes of the winner's choice of a $1,000 travel certificate plus $500 cash or a 50-inch television, and,50 third prizes of $500 cash. I'm sure the 60 winners are quite happy
Dec 20, 2003, 9:09 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions boosts Texas lottery salesNews Story
Lottery ticket sales have increased an average of 30 percent since Texas joined the multistate lottery Mega Millions two weeks ago, state officials said Thursday.But the increase accompanied an advertising push to promote the new game. Lottery officials cautioned that more time is needed to determine the long-term impact of Mega Millions on existing games.The two-week revenue on overall lottery ticket sales increased from an average of $56 million before Mega Millions to $65 million during the p
Dec 19, 2003, 3:18 am - Lottery News

Texas Two Step likely to move to new daysNews Story
Texas Two Step lotto games probably will be moved to new days because of a loss in sales to Mega Millions, the multistate game new to the state.Drawings for both games are on Tuesday and Friday nights, and Reagan Greer, the lottery's chief administrator, said Thursday that average weekly ticket sales for Texas Two Step have slipped below $1 million for the first time.Those sales, which previously averaged $1.5 million, dipped to an average of $936,091, he said.Mr. Greer told lottery commissioner
Dec 19, 2003, 3:17 am - Lottery News

Christmas El Gordo Online Lottery Sales End at MidnightNews Story
A last-minute flurry of excitement is expected at El Gordo Online, where sales end at midnight tonight for the world's biggest lottery draw.The El Gordo lottery, which is run by the government of Spain, is world-renowned for its massive drawing that happens around Christmas every year. El Gordo has one other large draw held in July, but the Christmas draw is by far the biggest.This year's Christmas drawing will award more than US$2 billion to almost 2 million winners.One of the most exciting as
Dec 18, 2003, 4:19 am - Lottery News