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Another Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in IndianaNews Story
For the second time in four days Powerball paid off big for a player in Indiana.On Saturday a $190.9 million jackpot was split between two tickets; one purchased in Indiana and one in Minnesota. Wednesday night's $10 million jackpot was the 30th Powerball jackpot win for Indiana. There have been a total of 175 jackpot winners in the history of Powerball.The winning ticket holder for Wednesday night's draw now has a choice to make. They can take the $10 million annuity, which will be paid out
Oct 30, 2003, 5:28 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In Indiana and MinnesotaNews Story
Powerball paid off big Saturday night for two winning tickets; one sold in Indiana and one sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $190.9 million jackpot.The $190.9 million dollar jackpot is the tenth largest jackpot in lottery history. It ranks as the sixth largest Powerball jackpot ever.Each ticket holder will have to decide if they want the $95.4 million 29- year annuity or the cash option worth $49.7 million. The ticket holders will have 60 days after the tickets are validated to make th
Oct 26, 2003, 1:55 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Soars to $190 MillionNews Story
Fourteen Powerball players across the nation were just one ball shy of winning the world's largest current lottery jackpot Wednesday night. The ball those players were missing was the Powerball.Powerball is the most exciting and well-known lottery game in the world, just ask the nearly one million players that collected cash prizes Wednesday night.There were no jackpot winners but 930,975 players across the nation won a total of more than $7.7 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one c
Oct 23, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

Paul's lottery past: rocky beginnings, happier endingsNews Story
It's only in hindsight that critics of Rebecca Paul's lottery startups give her creditRebecca Paul's admirers outnumber her critics by a long shot in Georgia's capital city.But the critics were hot when Paul was starting the state's lottery in 1993. Ten years later, Tennessee has hired her to do the same thing for up to $752,500 a year.Georgia's lottery drew close scrutiny from state lawmakers and federal prosecutors after awarding a key startup contract to a vendor whose bid was millions of dol
Oct 20, 2003, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Big lottery vendor dogged by controversyNews Story
GTECH expected to bid for online games in TennesseeScandal and suspicion have marked GTECH's 22 years in the lottery business. But so has spectacular success.The company, which is expected to bid on the Tennessee lottery's online games contract, helps run lotteries in 26 states and 42 other countries. Its revenues exceed $1 billion a year, spokesman Bob Vincent said.But GTECH, which is based in West Greenwich, R.I., also has run into trouble, especially in the 1990s. In Georgia, where Tennessee
Oct 20, 2003, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Lottery losers sue for changeNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery Corp. has been hit with another lawsuit challenging its Extra Cash game and its advertising.Keith B. Hunter, former general counsel for the lottery, said he filed the suit last week after seeing a news report about another one filed early this year.Both his lawsuit and the one filed earlier by Ronald Hub, of Stanton, take issue with the wording in a lottery brochure, which was changed after Hub filed his lawsuit. The original brochure said the single-digit numbers on the tic
Oct 13, 2003, 3:50 am - Lottery News

Record Kentucky lottery salesNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery has never been bigger... or more profitable.More local retailers are using it to supplement their profits. More players are chasing the dreams of a millionaire's jackpot. And state government is putting record profits to use funding more and more educational grants and scholarships.But competition on the horizon could halt the growth of the 14-year-old venture.The figures for fiscal year 2003 released by the Kentucky Lottery Corp. earlier this month tell the story of the rec
Oct 10, 2003, 5:17 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Reaches $102 MillionNews Story
Powerball is on the rise and once again the jackpot has crossed over into the $100 million range. There were no jackpot winners Wednesday but 517,732 players across the nation won a total of more than $6.3 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $102 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.This is the third time this year and the fourth time in the last eleven mont
Oct 9, 2003, 4:08 am - Lottery News

Neighbor states may lose lottery windfallNews Story
A solitary billboard between Nashville and the Kentucky state line tells the story of what surrounding states have to lose or possibly gain when Tennessee begins its own lottery next year.The billboard, leased by the Kentucky lottery, announces the latest Powerball jackpot. It is a subtle reminder that lottery tickets are available not far ahead.Kentucky does little to promote its lottery in Tennessee, spokewoman Sara Westerman said. But it would like to keep as much as possible of the estimated
Oct 8, 2003, 4:42 am - Lottery News

Kentucky lottery advertising changed in response to suitNews Story
A semiretired bookkeeper has sued the Kentucky Lottery Corp., accusing it of falsely advertising how numbers in one of its instant-win games are picked.Ronald B. Hub's lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court, seeks $1,000 in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages.It claims a promotional brochure by the lottery stated that the single-digit numbers printed on Extra Cash tickets are randomly generated. However, Hub says losing numbers were printed much more frequently e
Oct 7, 2003, 5:26 am - Lottery News