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Powerball lottery jackpot cracks $200M markNews Story
4th biggest Powerball jackpot over the last 2 years Mega Millions also in rarified territory The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing happened last night once again without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Saturday's drawing to grow to an estimated $213 million, with a cash option of $104.7 million. Wednesday night was the 13th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. Even though there were no jackpot winners, six lucky tickets matched the first five numbers for
Aug 13, 2009, 3:47 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery's Green Ball promotion adds bonus drawingsNews Story
The Maryland Lottery's Green Ball Double Draw promotion was triggered three times this past weekend, paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra prize money to players of the Pick 3 game. The green ball appeared during Saturday's midday drawing and during both the midday and evening drawing on Sunday, paying out an additional $310,595 in winnings for Pick 3 players. Since the promotion's start on July 20, seven green balls have been drawn, resulting in $730,800 in additional Pick
Aug 4, 2009, 4:14 pm - Lottery News

Texas Lottery drawings inspire confidenceNews Story
Contrasted to the Arkansas Lottery decision last week to hide their drawings inside a computer, Texas has a model approach Stephanie Guidry and Mickey Roberts didn't have much else to do, so they stopped in front of the Texas Lottery Commission offices to watch the winning numbers be drawn. And because she and boyfriend Mickey Roberts had nothing pressing against their schedule from 10:09 to 10:13 on a weeknight, she stayed for the adventure. Even though they did not purchase a lottery
Aug 2, 2009, 1:21 pm - Lottery News

Maine Lottery holds final Summer Spectacular raffle drawingNews Story
The Maine Lottery yesterday completed the third of its three Summer Spectacular raffle drawings, which awarded cash prizes, as well as some prizes not normally associated with a state lottery. A complete list of winning numbers for the raffle drawing can be found on Lottery Post's Maine Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/me). Unlike most other state lotteries in which raffle tickets typically cost $10 or $20 each, Maine's raffle tickets were given away for free after a minim
Jul 14, 2009, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery's raffle makes 4 millionairesNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, July 4th, and made four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found at Lottery Post's Pennsylvania Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/pa). Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds for a single ticket to win $1 milli
Jul 5, 2009, 1:01 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery Raffle drawing crowns 7 new millionairesNews Story
750,000 Florida Lottery raffle tickets had a shot at winning $1 million, and seven of those are officially chosen as the big winners. Lottery players anxiously waiting to see if they are now among the wealthy can check their tickets at Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/fl). With only 750,000 tickets available for the Firecracker Millionaire Raffle, Florida lottery ticket buyers had a better chance of winning a million dollars than with any other game
Jul 5, 2009, 12:30 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma Lottery starts daily drawings of Cash 5 gameNews Story
Beginning tonight, July 1, the Oklahoma Lottery will conduct daily drawings of its Cash 5 game. For $1 per play, lottery players now have more chances to win the top prize of $25,000 with taxes paid. We wanted to offer our players more chances to win and increase the excitement surrounding this popular game, said Jim Scroggins, executive director for the Oklahoma Lottery. For just one dollar, a return of $25,000 is a thrilling win. The drawings were previously held every Tuesday, Thur
Jul 1, 2009, 8:41 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery to end live broadcast of midday drawingNews Story
Is $100,000 in cost-savings worth the loss of midday drawing broadcasts? Beginning Friday, the New Jersey Lottery Commission will stop airing live drawings at 1 p.m. on the state's public television network in an effort to save money. Only summaries of the results of the Pick 3 and Pick 4 lotteries will be shown on New Jersey Network at 1 p.m., the state Lottery Commission said today. Video of the actual drawings will only be available on the commission's Web site. The midday winning
May 11, 2009, 10:41 pm - Lottery News

One Euro Millions lottery ticket wins €126M jackpot (US$170M)News Story
One lucky lottery ticket from Spain matched 5 lotto numbers plus the two Lucky Stars in Friday's Euro Millions drawing to win a massive jackpot of 126 million (US$170 million). The huge prize was the result of six successive drawings without a winner in the multi-country European lottery game. The winning ticket, worth 126,231,764 (US$170,198,287), was sold in a central Madrid lottery sales office. As one would expect, the winner has not yet been revealed. Government lottery offices nor
May 9, 2009, 5:15 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lawmaker critical of Gov's move to take lottery funds from schoolsNews Story
North Carolina State Representative Carolyn Justice says the governor's decision to take lottery funds has left some school districts in distress. The $50 million in the Education Lottery Reserve Fund was supposed to pay for school construction costs, some for this school year. The Pender County Republican says that's going to hurt local school districts. If those counties already issued bonds planning on that money to pay their debt, they're in trouble right now. And this hasn't even
Mar 23, 2009, 3:03 pm - Lottery News