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Penn. Lottery contributions decline for first time in 6 yearsNews Story
Lottery Not Blaming Slots for Flat Sales Pennsylvania's lottery sales stumbled in the just-ended fiscal year as slot machines came on line finishing flat after a half-decade of huge gains spurred by bigger games, more retailers and glitzier advertising. After subtracting expenses, commissions and prize money, the lottery contributed less money to state coffers than the prior year for the first time since 2001. State lottery officials insisted the arrival of slot-machine gambling in
Jul 24, 2007, 9:38 pm - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make five instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/pa-lottery-raffle-2007-07-07.asp Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 625,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Pennsylvania Lottery game. Ther
Jul 7, 2007, 8:20 pm - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery players dig Treasure Hunt gameNews Story
Treasure Hunt, Pennsylvania Lottery's terminal-based Pick 5 game, has exceeded sales expectations. The game, which went on sale May 8, was projected to bring in between $2.5 million and $3 million in its first quarter. Sales have surpassed $3 million. Treasure Hunt is unique because it is animated online. Players get a grid numbered 1-30 and mark where they think the treasures are hidden. After the drawing at 1:35 p.m., the sand covered grid is shown online being cleared off, reveling five
Jun 20, 2007, 10:35 am - Lottery News

$6.9M lottery winner steps forwardNews Story
After 76 suspenseful days, a winner has stepped forward to claim the record-breaking $6.9 million lottery prize for the Match 6 ticket sold at Giant Eagle supermarket in Ebensburg. But there are few drum rolls to accompany the announcement, because the winner does not want publicity, so the state can only release a name: Jane Rowland of Hollidaysburg. The winning Match 6 lotto ticket, which was sold March 23, was validated Thursday. It was the largest Match 6 lottery jackpot ever. It wi
Jun 8, 2007, 8:53 am - Lottery News

PA Lottery's Millionaire Raffle returns on 7-7-07News Story
Millionaire Raffle, the raffle-style game developed in 2005 by the Pennsylvania Lottery, will offer 7,777 cash prizes worth more than $6.4 million when the game is drawn at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 7 (7-7-07). Seven has always been a popular number for lottery players, so we decided to celebrate July 7, 2007, with a raffle drawing, said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees. The previous three raffle drawings sold out and we expect this raffle to be just as successful. Tickets for the Ju
May 22, 2007, 9:29 pm - Lottery News

Broken ball prompts 2nd Penn. Lottery drawing, 2 sets of winnersNews Story
Lottery players in Pennsylvania got a second chance to win after officials discovered a ball used in the MATCH 6 lotto drawing had broken into pieces. A second off-air drawing was held Tuesday night and the state said it would pay off winning tickets for both sets of numbers. No one won the $550,000 jackpot. But more than 200,000 winners in the two drawings will get anywhere from $2 to $2,500, according to the lottery's online statistics. The first total payout was $366,805; the second
May 2, 2007, 8:08 pm - Lottery News

Lottery declares 'foul' during evening Daily Number drawingNews Story
Pennsylvania Lottery officials declared a foul during the Thursday night Daily Number drawing. Thursday night's official winning Daily Number combination is 1-7-2. The first numbered ball in the combination, 1, and the second ball, 7, were successfully drawn. The third numbered ball was drawn into the selection chamber but fell back into the mixing chamber when a drawing official prematurely closed the drawing chamber before the ball was fully into position. At that point, a foul was called
Apr 13, 2007, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman sued by former friend over lottery winNews Story
Cathy Young said was stunned Tuesday to learn that a former friend claims that she refused to split a $100,000 Pennsylvania lottery jackpot with him. She said she was helping William A. Lucas Jr. get back on his feet after serving a prison sentence and he's already depleted his share for new tow trucks for his brother's business. All I did was feel sorry for him, said Young, who lives in North Union Township. Lucas, 36, also of North Union, sued Young in Fayette County yesterday, c
Mar 22, 2007, 4:51 pm - Lottery News

Change in Penn. Lottery scratch tickets removes shortcutNews Story
A change in the format of Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off tickets to prevent fraud means that some lottery players could be mistakenly tossing away winning tickets, retailers said. Since January, instant tickets have been printed with a new kind of security coding for retailers to verify that a winning ticket is valid. Previously, a row of letters and numbers at the top or bottom of a ticket indicated the prize won. For example, a row interspersed with (5) and (0) meant the ticket was a $
Mar 12, 2007, 10:26 am - Lottery News

Woman stole lottery tickets to get better working hoursNews Story
A convenience store worker allegedly stole at least $800 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets and gave the winning ones to her boss in exchange for better working hours, police said. Marcella Fletcher, 53, of Garfield Street, Nanticoke, faces charges of theft, tampering with records, and making false reports to law enforcement, police said. According to police, Fahim Mirza, owner of the Uni-Mart on Market Street, told police on Jan. 15 that one of his former employees had been stealing fr
Feb 9, 2007, 9:15 pm - Lottery News