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Indiana scores Powerball 3-peatNews Story
State is 1st to have 3 consecutive winners 3 times, officials of multistate game sayThe mystery of the state's nickname Hoosier was surely solved Thursday: It must mean lucky. The announcement of Powerball's third consecutive winning ticket makes Indiana the only state to sell three in a row an unparalleled three times.No one had claimed the $12.8 million jackpot by 5 p.m. Thursday, when the Hoosier Lottery office closed. The earlier back-to-back wins were in October and included Regina Manda
Nov 7, 2003, 4:49 am - Lottery News

Paul says to expect multistate lotto games by summerNews Story
Tennesseans hoping to try their luck at big multistate lottery games like Mega Millions or Powerball likely will get their wish by next summer, lottery chief Rebecca Paul said Tuesday.But before that can happen, the Tennessee lottery must first get the basics up and running -- including its own instant ticket and online gaming systems, Paul said in an interview with The Associated Press.Lottery officials have set a Feb. 10 start date for selling instant tickets -- a very, very aggressive schedu
Nov 5, 2003, 5:50 am - Lottery News

State plans to give lottery vendors prizes for ideas to increase salesNews Story
Illinois Lottery vendors can win prize money from a pot of $200,000 if they generate ideas on how to entice customers to buy more lottery tickets.Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration is hoping the move will increase revenue for the state, which has been battling a roughly $5 billion deficit. The state-run games of chance have seen flat or declining sales in recent years.There are two sessions, one in Hillside on Nov. 12 and another in Springfield on Nov. 20, in which vendors can enter drawings
Nov 5, 2003, 5:37 am - Lottery News

S.C. makes bid to help Tenn. lotteryNews Story
The South Carolina lottery, much like its neighbor in Georgia, has pitched the idea of helping out with the Tennessee lottery startup.Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) President Rebecca Paul was lured away from the successful Georgia Lottery Corporation in early September. The week before, the upstart lottery board here voted against the notion of a partnership with Paul and Georgia.South Carolina lottery officials were openly critical of the potential Georgia-Tennessee partnership
Nov 5, 2003, 5:31 am - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery to End Change GameNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveThe Michigan lottery will be ending the Change Play lottery game within two weeks.According to Stepheni Schlinker, Michigan Lottery Director of Public Relations, the last drawing of the Change Play game will take place on November 16.The game is being dropped from the Michigan Lottery game lineup because of poor sales. Sales dropped off over time, Schlinker said. When the game started in October 2002, it was selling about $400,000 per week. By September sales were down
Nov 4, 2003, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery Increases the Lotto Cash Value to 50 PercentNews Story
Future Colorado Lotto winners will receive an extra 10 percent beginning October 31, 2003 when they choose the Cash Value Option. The Cash Value has been set at 40 percent since it was introduced on July 10th, 1994. It's always exciting to announce changes that provide our winners with more money, said Lottery Director Mark Zamarripa. The Cash Value has been the same for almost ten years and it was time for us to bring it in line with the current market situation. The Cash Value Option is d
Nov 3, 2003, 4:06 pm - Lottery News

Marketing scholarships a challenge for Tennessee LotteryNews Story
Myron Oglesby-Pitts imagines advertisements for the Tennessee HOPE Scholarship on TV screens, billboards, hot-air balloons and buses.She can see herself and staff members driving a HOPE Hummer, a Humvee that could navigate the hills and valleys of the state's 95 counties, giving high school students and guidance counselors an impressive symbol of a college education made more affordable by lottery revenues.All of those things, she said, might be necessary to get the word out about requirements
Nov 3, 2003, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery sales net Wisconsin $37 million in property tax reliefNews Story
The sale of Wisconsin Lottery tickets grew 25 percent from July 1 through Sept. 30 the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Wisconsin Lotterys acting director said this week.The state lottery posted sales of a little more than $124.8 million as compared to $99.6 million in the same period last year, Michael Edmonds said. The sales were spurred by an increasingly strong scratch ticket market, a popular new online game and a large Powerball jackpot.The $124.8 million in sales produces an
Oct 30, 2003, 5:23 am - Lottery News

Lost and found? $1.4M lottery ticket winds up in courtNews Story
On Sept. 16, 2002, a New Jersey Pick 6 lottery ticket was sold from the Sunshine Grocery store in Hoboken. The numbers, randomly generated as a quick pick, proved to be the very lucky indeed. But a court will have to decide for whom.Several days after the ticket was sold, a brother and sister from Union City presented the lone winning ticket in the $4 million drawing to the New Jersey Lottery Commission in Trenton. Ecstatic at their good fortune but uncertain of their English (they are from Pu
Oct 30, 2003, 5:16 am - Lottery News

Ind. Single Mother Claims $95M PowerballNews Story
A 29-year-old single mother from Washington, Ind., cashed in her Powerball ticket worth $95.4 million Wednesday, becoming the biggest individual winner in Hoosier Lottery history.Regina Mandabach, a secretary for Hoosier Insurance, grinned as she accepted a giant check from lottery officials. She chose the cash option, which means she'll take home $49.7 million before taxes.Mandabach could have chosen to take a total of $95.45 million in annual payments over 30 years. Has it sunk in? No, Mandab
Oct 30, 2003, 5:12 am - Lottery News