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Tenn. lottery fans make fewer runs for the Kentucky borderNews Story
Gene Dotson is something of a video-game-stool philosopher of luck.As a regular lottery player, the retiree from Nashville has good reason to think about these things.''Is there such a thing called luck?'' Dotson asked Tuesday, a twinkle in his eye and a cigarette between two fingers as he played a video poker game at a lottery outlet just north of the Tennessee-Kentucky line, 36 miles from home. ''Is it who you are? ''Why do people keep doing it? Why do I keep doing it?''Whatever the cosmic an
Aug 2, 2004, 9:52 am - Lottery News

Missouri shuts down illegal lottery Web siteNews Story
A young man from Festus, Missouri set up his own online lottery and named it after a TV show. He called his Web site pimpmyride.com. Pimp My Ride is a show on MTV. There's no connection between the show and the lottery.The lottery Web site invited people to enter the contest for a $2 fee. The winner of a random drawing was to get $20,000 to customize, or pimp out, their vehicle.The site drew entries from across the country. Some people entered as many as 100 times.According to court record
Jul 29, 2004, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery Ignites Controversy with Computerized DrawingsNews Story
Lottery Post ExclusiveFalling in lockstep with a controversial industry trend, the Missouri Lottery decided to change its lottery drawings from mechanical lottery ball machines to a random number generator computer system.Opponents of the computerized drawings say that computers cannot achieve the true randomness of a physical drawing mechanism, mainly due to computers' inherent non-random properties.In addition, with computer hacking, viruses, and tampering on the rise, concerned citizens worry
Jul 21, 2004, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Missouri man wins $11.6 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A construction worker from the eastern Missouri town Wentzville had an extra dollar while grocery shopping and decided to buy a Missouri Lotto ticket.It turned out to be a good choice for David Spitznagel, 49, who matched all six numbers to win $11.6 million in the July 14 drawing. The Missouri Lottery released Spitznagel's name Tuesday.Spitznagel purchased the winning ticket at a Shop N Save store in O'Fallon. He let the computer randomly generate the winning numbers: 17, 21, 31, 34, 41 and 43.
Jul 21, 2004, 9:19 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery expands games to twice a dayNews Story
The Missouri Lottery's daily games will expand from one to two drawings a day later this month, officials said Friday.Gary Gonder, the lottery's spokesman, said the Pick 3, Pick 4 and Show Me 5 games will have a mid-day drawing in addition to the evening drawing, starting July 26. As a customer convenience, we're adding the mid-day draw, he said.Gonder said 21 other states already offer mid-day drawings, including neighboring Iowa and Illinois, and Missouri is catching up. Prices to play the va
Jul 10, 2004, 3:37 am - Lottery News

Missouri lottery sales set recordNews Story
The Missouri Lottery had record sales of nearly $800 million last fiscal year, the lottery said Wednesday.The lottery recorded $791.5 million in estimated sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30, an 11.5 percent increase from the previous year.Lottery director Jim Scroggins attributed the increase in sales to high jackpots in the state Lotto and multistate Powerball games, increased Scratchers sales and growth in Club Keno.Lottery players won more than $484 million for the year.The high sal
Jul 8, 2004, 10:03 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery sets profit recordNews Story
The Missouri Lottery posted a record $230.3 million in profits for the 2004 fiscal year, well above state projections and the previous year's results.A year ago, state lottery director Jim Scroggins predicted a sharp downturn in sales, and thus lottery profits for education, following a second consecutive year of advertising budget cuts by state lawmakers. Despite record sales the past year, Scroggins said he was sticking by his story that the ad cuts dventually would take their toll.Up to now,
Jun 24, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

$52 Powerball Jackpot Won by Ticket Purchased in PennsylvaniaNews Story
For the second time in May a ticket purchased in Pennsylvania won the Powerball jackpot. Saturday night's jackpot was worth $52 million.The winner will now have to decide between the 29-year, 30-payment annuity and the cash option worth $26.9 million. The winner will have 60 days after their ticket is validated to make that decision.In addition to the jackpot winner, 449,694 other Powerball players across the nation won a total of almost $3.8 million in cash prizes.The numbers drawn were: 1, 16
Jun 1, 2004, 12:58 pm - Lottery News

$100,000 Powerball lottery prize shared by five in North DakotaNews Story
Five players who bought a ticket in Valley City, North Dakota are claiming a $100,000 prize from the weekend Powerball drawing, the largest prize paid since the state joined the game.The winning ticket, bought at a Valley City convenience store, matched the first five numbers, but missed the Powerball, state lottery officials said. Players matching all six numbers would have won or shared the $33.2 million jackpot, but none of those tickets was sold.The $100,000 prize had people buzzing in Valle
May 25, 2004, 6:34 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Grows to $41 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 387,170 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.1 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $41 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, May 26 drawing will be an estimated $21 million.The numbers drawn were: 1, 7, 36, 42, 49 and the Powerball was 41. The Power Play multiplier was 5.Three players correctly matched the 5 white
May 24, 2004, 9:05 am - Lottery News