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Georgia lottery winner roundupNews Story
Some of the big wins Georgia lottery players have claimed in the past couple of weeks. McDonough man tunes holidays with $750,000 A McDonough, Georgia, man can celebrate the holiday season this year with a dash of $750,000 in lottery winnings. Ronnie Joyce, 61, played the holiday-themed Georgia Lottery instant game Jingle Jumbo Bucks and won a top prize. On his way home from a hunting trip with his wife, Ann, Joyce stopped at BP Food Mart, 194 Keys Ferry St. in McDonough, and purchase
Nov 12, 2007, 12:55 pm - Lottery News

Lottery competition between two border statesNews Story
A close look at the Georgia and Tennessee Lotteries University of Georgia demographer exemplifies general lack of understanding; buys into lottery myth: There aren't people in Brooks Brothers suits holding briefcases standing in line for tickets. Bob Kilgore lives in Jasper, Tenn., but he regularly buys lottery tickets in neighboring Georgia. I started playing the lottery in Georgia when it started (in 1993), and I've just kept buying most of my tickets in Georgia, Mr. Kilgore sai
Oct 5, 2007, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Is the lottery shortchanging schools?News Story
According to the North American Assoc. of State and Provincial Lotteries, 42 states and the District of Columbia run lotteries, and more than half claim the games boost funding for education. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian found that lotteries aren't exactly providing a windfall for schools. If you listen to state lottery ads, we're supposed to believe that all the numbers are supposedly adding up to more and more money for education. Lotteries help, but n
Sep 19, 2007, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Thieves burn store, steal lottery ticketsNews Story
Latest in string of lottery ticket thefts The boarded up windows at John Patel's convenience store hide the damage within. These people, I don't know what to think about them, Patel said of the people who set his business on fire. They're mentally sick, I think. Why they did the fire, I don't understand. Early Monday morning, two men broke into Patel's store on Dean Street in Rome, Georgia, stole at least 30 rolls of scratch off lottery tickets, then set a fire in an attempt to cov
Sep 5, 2007, 9:49 am - Lottery News

Georgia man wins $250,000 in Mega MillionsNews Story
Dana Peace recently had what he described as a very good day. Peace, 26, of Fayette County walked into a Corner Amoco on Highway 54 in Sharpsburg to buy Fritos a snack for girlfriend Holly Yelton's roommate. A snap decision at the checkout counter landed Peace with $5 in Quik Pik tickets for the June 22 Mega Millions drawing only about an hour away. Though Peace didn't watch the drawing that night, he called the Georgia Lottery Hotline the next morning as he drove his mother to the a
Jul 23, 2007, 12:02 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery sets sales record with $3.4 billion salesNews Story
The Georgia lottery took in a record $3.4 billion dollars during the last fiscal year a $244 million jump from the previous year. Officials say more than $850 million was transferred to the education fund, which pays for HOPE scholarships and pre-kindergarten classes. That brings the total funds raised to nine-point-three billion since the lottery began in 1993. State officials were concerned a few years ago that lottery sales wouldn't meet the growing demand for pre-kindergarten class
Jul 18, 2007, 12:53 pm - Lottery News

Georgia couple wins $1 million lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Jim Fain couldn't believe his eyes. His wife, Tina Beckham-Fain, sat on the floor of their Milledgeville home reading the number on the first of five lottery tickets they bought for the Millionaire Raffle as he looked at the winning combination on the Georgia Lottery Web site. Beckham-Fain read 285704. Unsure of what he was seeing on his computer, Fain then asked her to read the screen. She did and the numbers matched. I started to hyperventilate, said Fain, a 42-year-old corpor
Jul 11, 2007, 1:53 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Georgia Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/ga-lottery-raffle-2007-07-07.asp Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Georgia Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Georgia Lottery game. There is one drawin
Jul 7, 2007, 8:40 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Fantasy 5 lottery player scores $95,000 jackpotNews Story
A Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia, resident's fantasy has become a reality. According to Jordan, he watched the Fantasy 5 drawing and saw that he won big. He immediately called his son and began yelling, I think I won! I think I won! The winning numbers for the May 29 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 3-9-13-24-38. Jordan randomly selected the lucky combination. I don't know why I picked those numbers, he said. It's just my way of doing things. Jordan, an 82-year-old retiree, plans to sav
Jun 4, 2007, 2:48 pm - Lottery News

Lottery thief sets himself on fireNews Story
Firefighters said it can't get more ironic than this: an arsonist breaks into a convenience store, steals scratch-off lottery tickets, tries to cover his tracks by setting a fire, and in the process, sets himself on fire. It happened early Thursday morning in Rome, Georgia, just off of Rockmart Highway. Safarez Chunara surveyed his store on Friday the first time he and his family had seen the damage. The inside is completely torched. We trying to work and serve the community, Chunar
Jun 2, 2007, 7:16 pm - Lottery News