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Kentucky losing lottery sales to TennesseeNews Story
Kentucky Lottery officials say they have their first hard evidence that Tennessee's new lottery has chipped away at their income: Kentucky lost about $1.85 million in the $213 million Powerball drawing on May 8.Before Tennessee's lottery started on Jan. 20, Kentucky officials estimated that 11 percent of all Kentucky lottery tickets were purchased by Tennessee residents crossing the border to buy them.The Tennessee Lottery started with a few scratch-off games but has been steadily building its o
May 17, 2004, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $15 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 323,177 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.3 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $15 million.The cash option for the Saturday, May 15 drawing will be an estimated $7.6 million.The numbers drawn were: 11, 31, 35, 42, 45 and the Powerball was 35. The Power Play multiplier was 4.Two players correctly matched the 5 whit
May 13, 2004, 7:01 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Powerball $100,000 Winner Plans To Build HomeNews Story
Like many people across Tennessee, Matthew and Carolyn Hemby of McMinnville watched closely as the Powerball jackpot numbers were drawn on Saturday, May 8. Matthew, an employee of Federal Mogul, said he and his wife play the Lottery games regularly and on this occasion they were hoping to win the $212 million jackpot.Matthew said the family jumped up and down laughing when they realized they had won $100,000 and that they knew instantly what they planned to do with their winnings: Build a new ho
May 12, 2004, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery win energizes Pennsylvania neighborhoodNews Story
Not often is a middle-aged woman seen hopping in public, yet there was Mary Ann Seems, bouncing on her toes yesterday in a , her fists quivering in post-lottery fever. This is so exciting! exclaimed Seems, 47, of Titusville, N.J. I don't care who it is; it's in our neighborhood! Seems lives just across the Delaware River from Washington Crossing, where a Cumberland Farms store last week sold the richest winning lottery ticket so fare in Pennsylvania history.Annuity value: $213.2 million.Cash o
May 11, 2004, 7:24 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania store sells $213M winning Powerball ticketNews Story
Working at the convenience store where a $213.2 million Powerball ticket was sold -- the largest jackpot prize in Pennsylvania lottery history -- had Bo Ridgeway waxing philosophical yesterday. It's really something if you think about it. Fantasy and myth far outweigh rational thinking, the Cumberland Farms clerk said. People come into the store thinking they're going to win. Just like that person. It came to fruition for one person. That person, who has not come forward yet, purchased the tic
May 10, 2004, 6:41 am - Lottery News

Pool players ponder Powerball hypocrisyNews Story
Nobody was betting on $212 million at The Pour House on Friday.A week after Charleston police and State Law Enforcement Division agents raided a pool tournament at the Savannah Highway tavern, three patrons at the bar shook their heads no over their beer. They hadn't bought a $1 chance at the state-sponsored, long-odds Powerball game.The prize at stake in tonight's drawing for the multistate lottery payoff has climbed to more than $200 million for the second time in five months. The last time,
May 8, 2004, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Powerball jackpot increased to $212 millionNews Story
The state lottery directors who sell the Powerball game increased the estimated jackpot today from $205 million to $212 million after strong sales during the past two days.Besides being the largest lottery jackpot currently offered in the world, the new estimate of $212 million would also be the sixth largest Powerball jackpot ever won.The estimated cash option for the drawing will be $110.3 million.When the Powerball jackpot gets this high, players have fun talking about what they would do with
May 7, 2004, 10:58 pm - Lottery News

Birthdays Yield $100,000 Lottery Win After Ticket Rescued From TrashNews Story
When Daniel Brooks, Jr., a HVAC Technician from Shelbyville, Tennessee, purchased his $100,000 winning Powerball ticket, he did so by choosing numbers that were all birthdays and ages of his family members. When he and wife Robin came into the Nashville district office on Thursday to claim their prize, they brought their children so the family could experience the big dvent together.Brooks purchased his winning ticket in late April at the Han-D-Food Market, located at 1629 Bradyville Road in Mur
May 7, 2004, 7:21 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $205 MillionNews Story
The excitement is rising along with the jackpot in America's favorite lottery game. No one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $205 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.The $205 million dollar jackpot would rank as the 6th largest Powerball jackpot ever, and the 9th largest lottery jackpot of all time.The cash option for the Saturday, May 8 drawing will be an estimated $107.3 million.There were no P
May 6, 2004, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Four of 16 Lottery-Winning Lunch Ladies Have Left KitchenNews Story
Four of the 16 Holdingford, Minnesota school employees who won half of a $190 million Powerball jackpot in October have left the school.Susan Breth says she'll leave her job as part-time cook at the end of the school year. She joins Barbara Nelson, Donna Lange and Alice Kobylinski in retirement.Kobylinski was a custodian for the district. The rest were cooks.The group won the lottery after years of chipping in a quarter each to play every payday. Despite their millionaire status, most of the wom
May 6, 2004, 7:27 am - Lottery News