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N.H. lottery chief says $20 ticket price will not be high enoughNews Story
A doubling of the top-priced scratch ticket sold by the New Hampshire lottery would trigger increased sales for only the next two to three years, the states lottery chief warned Wednesday.Sweepstakes Commission Executive Director Rick Wisler advised lawmakers they could avoid a return trip by amending a bill and permitting the eventual top-priced ticket to go from $10 to $25.The lottery would go to the higher-priced ticket over a period of many years, he stressed.We manage our (top-rate) price p
Jan 27, 2005, 11:57 am - Lottery News

NJ Teachers just miss $130M Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
A group of 82 teachers and staff members at School 10 in Paterson, New Jersey came within one number of winning the $130 million jackpot in last week's Mega Millions game.Instead, they will take home about $2,134 each before taxes, having won the second prize of $175,000. Although disappointed that they can't retire early, the winners who gathered Tuesday to pose for New Jersey Lottery photographs were happy they won anything at all. This is the biggest win I've ever had, gym teacher William Be
Jan 26, 2005, 1:18 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky lottery players try to beat the oddsNews Story
This is the first story in a four-part series on the Kentucky lottery and its local and state impactMost members of James Carrier's family have earned their largely modest income from the soil. But there is one relative of the retired Crab Orchard area farmer who a little more than a decade ago planted a seed that turned her into a millionaire.The seed, in this case, came not from a farm supply shop but from a convenience store.Back in 1994, one of Carrier's aunts, Beverly Pitt, also of Crab O
Jan 25, 2005, 9:20 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Gov. wants to use lottery funds for preschoolsNews Story
Tennessee Governor Bredesen plans to funnel some lottery money into his preschool education initiative when he unveils his budget to lawmakers in the coming weeks.Bredesen has made a statewide pre-kindergarten program one of his top priorities for the year.There had been speculation that lottery money would eventually pay for the program with a final price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.The governor told The Associated Press that he will propose using lottery money in the fiscal year beg
Jan 14, 2005, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

N.H. Lottery Proposes $25 Scratch TicketsNews Story
New Hampshire's lottery chief warned House and Senate tax experts Thursday that revenue will remain flat unless lawmakers agree to raise the price of instant scratch tickets.Sweepstakes Commission Executive Director Rick Wisler is asking the Legislature for permission to double the most expensive ticket - from $10 to $20.The change would generate $3.8 million more in the year ending June 30, 2006, according to Wisler.If the commission were to get permission to raise the price still higher to $25
Jan 14, 2005, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Nebraska Powerball winner shares $30.9 million jackpotNews Story
A man who turned two one-dollar bills into a multi-million-dollar windfall in Nebraska has claimed the prize -- more than two weeks after learning he'd won.Steven Herber had one of three tickets that matched all of the numbers drawn December 22nd in the Multi-State Lottery Association's Powerball game.Tickets bought in Arizona and Pennsylvania also matched all six numbers, meaning the $30.9 million jackpot must be split three ways.Herber chose the cash option worth $5,662,888.20.After state and
Jan 13, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins $1 million with scratch-off lottery ticketNews Story
Donna Goeppert kissed a copy of her winning lottery ticket Wednesday, a day after the game had given her a big, fat, million-dollar smooch.Goeppert, a lifelong Bethlehem, Pennsylvania resident who plays the lottery religiously, scratched off a $1 million winner at Linden Food Market in the city. After taxes, she'll take home $750,000.''I'm still numb,'' Goeppert said Wednesday, standing next to her husband and mother at the Bethlehem Volunteer Fireman's Home Association, where she runs bingo twi
Jan 13, 2005, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery to finally reveal Lotto 5 jackpotsNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced that it will remove some of the mystery from its Lotto 5 computerized game by giving players an estimated jackpot before each of the tri-weekly drawings.Prior to estimating the jackpot, players only knew the rollover amount from the previous drawing if there was no winner. At the games launch, it was announced that the top prize would range from the tens of thousands to more than one-hundred thousand dollars.After just over four months of playing Lotto 5, players
Jan 13, 2005, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed $14 M In Jeopardy Of DisappearingNews Story
There is a multimillion-dollar mystery in Illinois.Someone out there has won $14 million in the state lottery and has yet to claim the money. If the winner does not come forward in the next three weeks, that fortune is gone forever.There have been a lot of other lotto prizes unclaimed over the years, apparently, but none this big.The drawing was held Jan 31, 2004, meaning the chance to step forward and claim the winnings runs out on Jan. 31, 2005. If the the winning ticket doesn't show up, the m
Jan 12, 2005, 10:18 am - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery marks 3rd anniversaryNews Story
$2.4 billion in sales have generated $713 million for educationThe South Carolina Education Lottery marked its third anniversary last week.Since the lottery's creation, total ticket sales have exceeded $2.4 billion, and players have won more than $1.4 billion. State income tax collected on winnings over $500 totaled more than $18 million.In addition, the lottery has transferred more than $713 million to the Education Lottery Account for appropriation by the state legislature. To put a face on ou
Jan 11, 2005, 9:51 am - Lottery News