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Husband, then wife, wins lotteryNews Story
The Hills were excited when they won $5,000 from the Georgia Lottery. But excited doesn't begin to cover how they felt one week later, when they won again this time a $1 million prize. I was really ecstatic about the $5,000, Hill said, but then, boom! When I got this one I was just like, 'Wow, I can't believe this. My life is going to change for the better.' Karen Hill, a 34-year-old mother of two, bought the winning ticket for the World Class Millions instant game at City Chevron, 701 E
Jun 11, 2009, 10:30 pm - Lottery News

Lucky grandparents strike it big in Ga. lotteryNews Story
Apparently, it pays to be a grandparent. The latest big winners in the Georgia Lottery have a combined 17 grandchildren between them. Brenda Lee, 60, who works at a lawn-mower assembly plant, won $500,000 in the instant game Jumbo Bucks. The Statesboro woman bought the ticket at Ambe Food Mart and scratched it in her car. I called my daughter and asked her to come quickly because I couldn't drive, said Lee, who has two children and four grandchildren. I also showed the clerk. I just co
Jun 11, 2009, 1:35 pm - Lottery News

Forgotten lottery ticket worth $250,000News Story
A lottery ticket tucked away in a wallet for months turned out to be a winner, worth $250,000. Michael Johnson, of Lexington, Ky., bought the Mega Millions ticket during a business trip to metro Atlanta back in February. He slipped the lottery ticket into his wallet and forgot about it. Last week he found the three-month old ticket, checked the numbers, and found out he was holding a winning ticket. He matched all five numbers in the drawing, but not the mega ball. I didn't screa
Jun 8, 2009, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Georgia man wins $1 million in lotteryNews Story
A Gainesville man's life may have been opened to new possibilities after winning a $1 million Georgia Lottery prize. Donald Grant, 58, won the lottery after purchasing a World Class Millions ticket, a Georgia Lottery instant game, with his morning cappuccino. This is a lucky day, Grant said of winning his prize. I was stunned. The winning ticket was purchased at Circle M Food Shop on 2310 Old Cornelia Highway in Gainesville. According to Grant, winning his prize opens up a realm of
Jun 2, 2009, 9:03 am - Lottery News

S.C. lottery chief says Arkansas can clear $125M in first yearNews Story
New commission urged to focus on hiring director South Carolina lottery director Ernie Passailaigue estimated that the Arkansas lottery could clear roughly $125 million in net profit its first year. Passailaigue spoke to Arkansas Lottery Commission members Thursday afternoon at a working retreat held at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute within Petit Jean State Park. Joining him to pass along expertise in helping implement successful state lotteries was Margaret DeFrancisco, director of th
May 15, 2009, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Georgia man wins lottery 3 timesNews Story
Figure the odds: Three winning lottery tickets one of them for $1 million all in the same day. Michael Warner, 61, of Grayson, Georgia, won the big prize playing the Georgia Lottery instant game World Class Millions, and topped off his winnings with $500 from another instant game, Extreme Green, and $20 from a third lottery ticket. I could hardly breathe, said the retired Lucent Technologies employee. I was just at the right place at the right time. On the afternoon of April 19, Warne
May 8, 2009, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery holds first Weekly WinFall drawingNews Story
The Georgia Lottery held the first of 11 Weekly WinFall drawings, combining the big payout of a raffle game with the drawings of a weekly draw game. The winning numbers for Weekly WinFall are updated at Lottery Post's Georgia Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/ga) after each weekly drawing takes place. The first drawing, conducted April 25, awarded 10 prizes of $5,000 to holders of tickets sold in the previous week. Unlike other state raffle games with early bird -style d
Apr 29, 2009, 10:27 pm - Lottery News

Hitting the jackpot: Rebecca Hargrove's winning strategyNews Story
Tenn. Lottery CEO says tickets seem recession-proof, help fund college educations You may not have heard of Rebecca Paul Hargrove, but in the lottery world, she's a celebrity. The brash, hard-charging CEO of the Tennessee lottery has accomplished what nobody else has in the state-run gaming business. She ran the lottery in Illinois where sales topped $1.3 billion. Next, Hargrove moved to Florida, where she set a new record: $95 million in sales the first week. In Florida, Hargrove's mar
Mar 29, 2009, 11:37 am - Lottery News

Lottery sales keep rising, but the recession keeps them in checkNews Story
Anticipation may be high for tonight's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery, with a jackpot that has grown to $171 million, but the fallen economy has pinched the wallets of Georgia Lottery ticket buyers. Muhammad Bonji of Gainesville used to spend $50, maybe $70, a week on tickets, recalling how I was making money back then. He now spends $30 to $40 per week. Bonji had stopped at the Citgo station on E.E. Butler Parkway at College Avenue to pick up tickets and fuel up his pic
Feb 27, 2009, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery considers casino optionsNews Story
Plan aims to increase jobs, scholarship money Underground Atlanta's developers have put their cards on the table to bring casino-style gaming to Georgia. Dan O'Leary and John Aderhold, the leaseholders of Underground, have approached the Georgia Lottery board with plans for a half billion-dollar casino and hotel complex that would inject cash into the HOPE Scholarship and generate millions of tax dollars for the region. The leaseholders of city-supported Underground and Delaware horse t
Jan 14, 2009, 3:27 pm - Lottery News