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Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in south GeorgiaNews Story
A single player has won the grand prize from the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing.Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing -- worth $150 million -- was sold in Fitzgerald, Ga., about 170 miles south of Atlanta.Besides the grand prize winner, nine players matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $175,000 each.Another 75 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number -- good for third prizes of $5,000.The win
Oct 1, 2003, 3:26 am - Lottery News

Lottery schedule may jumpNews Story
Tennessee lottery head Rebecca Paul said Monday the corporation may award contracts to gaming vendors, which will be charged with laying the infrastructure for ticket sales, two days sooner than had been anticipated.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) must award gaming contracts by the day before Thanksgiving, says Paul, to reach the goal of the first scratch off ticket sales by Feb. 10. Paul now says, however, the contracts could be awarded two days sooner by Nov. 24.Paul stands
Sep 30, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $150 MillionNews Story
Players Win More Than $6.1 Million in Friday's Mega Millions DrawingSummer may have ended, but Mega Millions is hot!With nine different ways to win, players across America are lining up to play the game with the highest jackpot in the nation. More than 900,000 Mega Millions players won prizes in Friday's drawing. Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $126 million jackpot, that jackpot now grows to an estimated $150 million for the Tuesday, September 30, 2003 drawing.Frid
Sep 29, 2003, 3:47 am - Lottery News

Committee OKs Tennessee Lottery pay-scale planNews Story
The pay scale for Tennessee Lottery workers will range from $19,750 a year for a warehouse clerk to $150,000 a year for a senior vice president, plus bonuses, according to a preliminary plan approved by a lottery committee.Lottery workers also must pass a drug test before being hired.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation's Human Resources Committee on Friday approved the plan, which still must be voted on by the entire board. Minutes later, new lottery chief Rebecca Paul hired her first em
Sep 29, 2003, 3:14 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lawmaker balks at high lottery pay for vice presidentsNews Story
A state legislative leader said he hoped that Tennessee's lottery would pay its top officials less than top executives at the Georgia lottery were paid when Rebecca Paul was director there.Paul, the new Tennessee lottery director who officially came from Georgia this week, had a dozen lottery vice presidents working for her in Georgia five of them earning $151,000-$180,000 a year, including bonuses.''That seems to be on the high side,'' said state Sen. Ron Ramsey of Blountville, Senate Republ
Sep 26, 2003, 3:12 am - Lottery News

Lottery board ups goalsNews Story
Profit expectations for Tennessee's new lottery director Rebecca Paul increased Tuesday by roughly $6 million following a vote by the state's lottery board.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) board, due to Paul's starting one week earlier than planned, increased the amount of net proceeds the lottery must garner if Paul is to receive the whole of her $400,000 incentive package. A former goal described by Paul as Herculean -- of $122 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year
Sep 24, 2003, 4:05 am - Lottery News

Paul to run sales, advertising for Tenn. LotteryNews Story
Sales and marketing of the Tennessee lottery will be controlled by lottery head Rebecca Paul, while other aspects of running the games will be handed over to private vendors.That was the style Paul used when she ran the Georgia lottery for 10 years and that's how she plans to run the Tennessee lottery, she said yesterday.On her second day on the job, Paul made several recommendations to the Tennessee lottery board, including what she plans to include in two major contracts with gaming vendors.Bo
Sep 24, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery CEO begins job early, says games could start Feb. 10News Story
Rebecca Paul began as director of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. more than a week early, meaning the first scratch-off games could be available for sale ahead of schedule.Paul, who was hired away from the Georgia Lottery on Sept. 8 to run Tennessees startup operation, was supposed to begin her new duties Oct. 1. Instead, she spent Monday pitching the games and their benefits to a Nashville civic group.One of the potential takers was Steven Greil, president of the Tennessee Performing Arts
Sep 23, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News

Paul gets brusque farewell from Georgia lottery boardNews Story
When Rebecca Paul gave three weeks' notice that she was stepping down as head of Georgia's lottery to start Tennessee's, her bosses showered her with praise and wished her well.Days later, the lottery's board of directors barred Paul from her desk and declared it wanted the $500,000-a-year executive gone yesterday literally.Officially, Paul's last day on the job became Sept. 5, two days before she phoned Georgia's governor and told him she had accepted the job of Tennessee Education Lottery Corp
Sep 20, 2003, 8:57 pm - Lottery News

Public backs HOPE limitsNews Story
Georgians' support for new restrictions on lottery-funded HOPE scholarships are stronger than previously thought, according to polling results presented to a state commission Thursday.The Peach State Poll, conducted by University of Georgia researchers, found significant public support for limiting the scholarships to four years and a flat $3,000 a year. I think it's a pretty discerning public, said state Rep. Louise McBee, D-Athens, a commission co-chairwoman.The panel - made up of lawmakers,
Sep 19, 2003, 10:07 am - Lottery News