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TV station investigates repeating Kentucky Lottery scratch winnersNews Story
Is it luck or something else? The Kentucky lottery sells hundreds of millions of dollars in scratch off lottery tickets each year. While it's difficult to hit the big one, people beat the odds time and time again. WHAS11's investigative reporter Adam Walser traveled the state, trying to discover how some people repeatedly get so lucky. For thousands of Kentucky residents, playing the lottery is favorite pastime. Sometimes players win big, but usually, the outcome is not so lucky.
Jul 29, 2009, 2:56 pm - Lottery News

One ticket wins massive $232M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Update 1: May 28, 2009, 10:51 a.m. Update 2: May 28, 2009, 11:22 a.m. Someone is South Dakota has the one winning ticket in Wednesday night's $232.1 million Powerball jackpot. The prize, originally estimated at $222 million, came in higher than expected due to heavy sales around the country. Wednesday's winning Powerball numbers were 5, 6, 12, 16 and 21. The Powerball was 7 and the Power Play multiplier was 3. This is an absolute thrill, said Norm Lingle, executive director of th
May 28, 2009, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Two tickets will share $174M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Tickets sold in Delaware, Pennsylvania Two tickets for the Powerball game Saturday night one sold in Delaware and the other in Pennsylvania matched all five numbers plus the Powerball drawn to win a share of the top prize. The winning tickets will share a jackpot prize of $174.4 million, or $87.2 million each. The winning numbers 3-16-20-42-58, Powerball: 7 were drawn in Orlando, Florida last night at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The Power Play number was 5. The jackpot has been build
Mar 1, 2009, 7:51 am - Lottery News

Kentucky blocked from seizing gambling domain namesNews Story
Kentucky may not seize 141 online casinos' Internet domain names in an attempt to block them from operating within the state's borders, a three-judge appeals panel ruled. In a 2-1 opinion Tuesday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals panel said an Internet domain name is not a gambling device. That left the Franklin County Circuit Court without jurisdiction in the matter. It stretches credulity to conclude that a series of numbers, or Internet address, can be said to constitute a 'machine or any
Jan 21, 2009, 4:47 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery reports record revenues, lower profitsNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery brought in record revenues despite a souring economy, an audit released Wednesday showed. The audit of the Kentucky Lottery showed that the lottery brought in $778.2 million up about 4.6 percent from the previous year but its profits were down about 2.7 percent. That's because the lottery increased its prize payouts to players and paid higher retailer commissions. But the amount of money the lottery paid to state scholarship programs, including the Kentucky Educational
Nov 28, 2008, 10:54 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $200M sold in N.M.News Story
Largest Powerball prize ever in New Mexico Lottery offers advice to winner The New Mexico Lottery announced Saturday that it sold the winning ticket for the $200 million Powerball jackpot prize drawn earlier that evening. It was the only winning ticket nationwide. The massive jackpot is the largest Powerball prize ever won in New Mexico. The winning numbers were 13, 24, 29, 40, 52 and the red Powerball number was 29. The Power Play number was 4. The numbers were drawn Saturday
Sep 28, 2008, 7:32 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot up to $81M for Wed.News Story
The jackpot in America's Game continues to move, as the game itself moves closer to it's eventual overhaul. In January the Powerball game matrix will be changed to 59 numbers in the primary ball set (up from 55), and 39 numbers for the Powerball (down from 42). In the same month, Florida will join the Powerball game, to increase the total number of participating states to 30, plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. Saturday evening did not witness the awarding of the gran
Sep 3, 2008, 12:42 am - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky man thought he won lottery jackpotNews Story
Misreads symbols on scratch game card Stephen McGuire took a chance on his luck with big hopes and dreams. I was dreaming of getting out of debt being able to financially able to do more things with my family, he says. A dream McGuire thought became reality after finding this dollar sign in Lucky Loot part of the 100,000 dollar players club game. I scratched it off. I went through see I won ten dollars, scratched the last one off, I thought I won 100,000 dollars. My wife, thoug
Apr 30, 2008, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery audit: players spent $2 million on worthless ticketsNews Story
Lottery responded too slowly; problem fixed 10 minutes after finding it The Tennessee Lottery made a series of missteps and oversights after a software glitch began generating faulty winning numbers last year, and players bought about $2 million worth of unwinnable tickets before the error was found, according to a state audit. The sweeping audit from state Comptroller John G. Morgan reviewed the entire episode between July 28 and Aug. 20, when a programming glitch caused no duplicate digi
Mar 19, 2008, 10:48 am - Lottery News