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Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $155 millionNews Story
Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, a total of 746,524 players across the nation won more than $8.7 million in prizes playing America's Game . The jackpot for the Saturday, July 29th drawing will be $155 million with the cash option at $70.7 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 5, 10, 17, 24, 43, and the Powerball was 31. The Power Play multiplier was 4. Two tickets sold in North Carolina won $800,000 each with the Power Play option. In addition, fi
Jul 28, 2006, 10:39 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot soars to $116 millionNews Story
Even though the grand prize was not hit in Wednesday evening's drawing, Powerball paid off in multiple other ways. One lucky ticket won $800,000 with the Power Play option in Indiana. In addition, six other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching 5 white ball numbers in the states of Iowa (1), Louisiana (1), Maine (1), Minnesota (1), Montana (1), and New Mexico (1). The jackpot for the Saturday, July 22nd drawing will be $116 million with the cash option at $52.9 million. The numbers dr
Jul 21, 2006, 1:18 pm - Lottery News

Winning Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in MarylandNews Story
A single ticket has won the grand prize in the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing. Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing was sold in District Heights, Maryland. The ticket is worth $49 million. In addition to the grand prize winner, four players around the country matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $250,000 each. The winning numbers from Tuesday night's drawing were: 12, 13, 29, 49 and 52. The Mega B
Jul 19, 2006, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $100 millionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot continues to move upward, this time reaching the $100 million-mark. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday, one lucky ticket in Oklahoma won $800,000 with Power Play. A total of 585,154 players across the nation won more than $6 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 $100 million. The cash option for the Wednesday, July 19th drawing will be an
Jul 18, 2006, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

Calif. lotto winner remains hiddenNews Story
New millionaire avoiding the spotlight Somewhere in California, a man named Richard Furness Roberts is quietly sitting on $110 million. The SuperLotto winner presented the coveted ticket he purchased at a South Pasadena liquor store to lottery officials Friday nine days after his six numbers were called on the evening news. But, apparently, mum is the word for the bashful millionaire at least for now. Lotto officials told disappointed members of the media that there would be n
Jul 18, 2006, 1:24 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $86 millionNews Story
Even though the Powerball jackpot was not hit Wednesday evening, one lucky ticket won a $1 million prize with the Power Play option in Pennsylvania. In addition, four other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching 5 white ball numbers in the states of Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The jackpot for the Saturday, July 15th drawing will be $86 million with a cash option of $38.8 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 18, 19, 30, 31, 33, and the Powerball was 15. The
Jul 13, 2006, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery audits find more problemsNews Story
Prize estimates were inflated at least 3 times after scandal Months after Texas Lottery officials were chastised for inflating Texas Lotto jackpot estimates in a scandal that cost the executive director his job, the agency did it again at least three more times, according to one of two highly critical state auditor reports on the lottery released Tuesday. Auditors found a significant number of instances in which agency management did not comply with policies and procedures to review or ap
Jul 13, 2006, 12:15 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery defends jackpot advertising policiesNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission defended its Lotto Texas jackpot advertising policies yesterday, after an audit said the current practice could reduce the amount of money transferred to the state to support education. An uproar last summer over the lottery's decision to advertise four jackpots that officials knew they couldn't afford to pay cost former executive director Reagan Greer his job and shook public confidence in the games. As a result, the lottery commission approved a measure in Oc
Jul 13, 2006, 7:36 am - Lottery News

One lottery ticket wins $110 million Calif. SuperLotto jackpotNews Story
You could be $110 million richer today. That is, if you are the one lucky lottery player who bought a Super Lotto Plus ticket with the numbers 2, 9, 12, 20, 34 and Mega number 16. The odds are one in 41.4 million, but someone has done it. Wednesday's jackpot was the best payout in four years and the sixth largest prize in Super Lotto history. The ticket was sold at the Foremost Liquor Market at 301 Monterey Road, South Pasadena. The California Lottery is expected to make a formal ann
Jul 6, 2006, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winner remains silentNews Story
Let's say you opened your Tulsa World to Page 3, checked your Powerball numbers in the top right-hand corner same as you do every Thursday and Sunday and found you had a perfect, exact match. Let's say that made the ticket worth $101.8 million. Would you run screaming down the street? Call everybody you know and maybe everybody in the phone book? Faint? For the holder of a winning Powerball ticket sold in Broken Arrow about three weeks ago, the answer to at least two of
Jul 4, 2006, 7:48 am - Lottery News