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$495 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs, awaits its first winner of 2019News Story
By Todd Northrop Two and a half months into 2019, we still don't have a Powerball jackpot winner. But it's not for a lack of trying: The multi-state lottery game now features a jackpot worth a half-billion dollars. The last person to win the game was David Johnson, a Brooklyn, New York truck driver, who claimed a $298.3 million jackpot from the Dec. 26, 2018 drawing. After that drawing, the Powerball jackpot reset to $40 million and continued to rollover for 22 consecutive drawings,
Mar 14, 2019, 8:35 am - Lottery News

Multi-state Cash4Life may become daily lottery gameNews Story
Lottery players in nine states may soon have a chance to play the game Cash4Life on daily basis. The move from a twice-per-week to daily drawings was approved Monday by members of the the New York State Gaming Commission. If approved by the other eight states that offer the game, Cash4Life could adopt a daily drawing schedule starting on July 1. New York started Cash4Life with New Jersey in 2014. Since then, seven other states have joined: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Jan 29, 2019, 9:09 am - Lottery News

Alabama lawmakers provide insight into upcoming push for state lotteryNews Story
One of the most influential men in Alabama politics said he expects a statewide lottery and gaming bill to be considered when the Alabama Legislature convenes March 5. The speaker is on record as saying a lottery bill won't come from his office but I fully anticipate a gaming and lottery bill to come up, former House District 81 Rep. Mark Tuggle a Republican from Alexander City who is now the chief of staff for House Speaker Mac McCutcheon said Thursday during a meeting of his hometown Alexa
Dec 12, 2018, 4:20 pm - Lottery News

Feds bust up illegal fantasy football lottery schemeNews Story
A business pairing the enormously popular fantasy football leagues with the Georgia Lottery must have looked like a money-making combination. Two eager investors thought so and forked out $500,000 in loans to the Atlanta man who hatched the idea of a fantasy football lottery league. But Timothy Cobb, a former lawyer who once worked for Turner Broadcasting System, was running a scam, according to allegations in a federal indictment unsealed this week. Cobb is no longer engaging in fantasy,
Dec 1, 2018, 8:34 am - Lottery News

Winners in Iowa, New York to share $687.8 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop Two winning tickets sold in Iowa and New York will split the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history. The winning numbers for the $687.8 million prize were 8, 12, 13, 19, and 27, with Powerball number 4. The Power Play was 3. The lump-sum cash payout option is $396.2 million. The winning ticket in New York was sold at the West Harlem Deli at 2040 5th Ave in West Harlem, Manhattan. Iowa's jackpot-winning ticket was purchased at Casey's at 425 Second St.
Oct 28, 2018, 9:22 am - Lottery News

$750 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges to 4th-largest everNews Story
Only the 4th time in history a lottery jackpot has grown to $700 million+ By Todd Northrop This week lottery players across the United States were pulling out all the stops to try and win Mega Millions, with one of the largest lottery jackpots in history, worth nearly $1.6 billion. After that jackpot was won Tuesday night on a single lottery ticket purchased in South Carolina, attention has suddenly shifted to the USA's other big multi-state lottery game, Powerball. Wednesday night w
Oct 25, 2018, 1:15 am - Lottery News

$1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won by 1 ticket sold in South CarolinaNews Story
The first lottery billionaire By Todd Northrop What was billed as the largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Tuesday night by a single lottery ticket sold in South Carolina. It turns out the final number was just a bit shy of the record: $1.537 billion. The public has been electrified this week by the meteoric Mega Millions lottery jackpot, first hitting $1 billion Friday, and then rising to $1.6 billion for Tuesday night's historic drawing. The winner of the
Oct 24, 2018, 7:44 am - Lottery News

Powerball joins lottery frenzy with $620 million jackpotNews Story
More than $2.2 billion in multi-state jackpots can be won this week By Todd Northrop This will be a week talked about in the lottery industry for a long time. Lottery players are dreaming about unimaginable wealth, lottery retailers are enjoying the prosperity of a huge uptick in store traffic, and state governments are rubbing their hands in anticipation of a revenue windfall. Everyone knows about the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot that is being talked about around the wo
Oct 21, 2018, 10:16 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions sets world record with $1.6 billion lottery jackpot for Tuesday drawingNews Story
Jackpot surpasses previous mark held by January 2016 Powerball drawing It's anybody's guess how high it will get By Todd Northrop A Mega Millions jackpot roll that had already made history has now reached a new world record for the biggest lottery jackpot ever. After lottery officials worked into the early hours of the morning processing the hundreds of millions of lottery tickets sold for the Friday drawing, it was determined that there was no jackpot winner, propelling the new Mega
Oct 20, 2018, 6:57 am - Lottery News

$1 BILLION MEGA MILLIONS LOTTERY DRAWING TONIGHTNews Story
Mega Millions jackpot could crown first lottery billionaire $1 billion jackpot outgrows most billboards By Todd Northrop For the third time in three days, lottery officials have been forced to raise the multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot due to a torrent of lottery ticket sales for the $1 BILLION jackpot drawing tonight. If one ticket wins that prize, it would mark the first time in world history that someone became a billionaire lottery winner. One of the wealthiest people on
Oct 19, 2018, 12:02 pm - Lottery News