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Tennessee Cash 4 Lottery Game Starts TodayNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced that its newest game called Cash 4 goes on sale today, and the first drawing will be held on Monday.Tickets for Cash 4 range from 50 cents to $1, while prizes range from $100 to $5,000 each day. The nightly drawings will be televised at 6:28 p.m. Central time.''We've heard from a lot of players about a four-digit game, and now we've answered the call,'' lottery President Rebecca Paul said in a statement.Winning numbers will be announced as balls are drawn from fo
Apr 17, 2005, 10:26 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery chief hopes Powerball win propels salesNews Story
Tennessee's first sale of a Powerball jackpot ticket has officials of the Tennessee Lottery hoping there will be more interest in the multi-state game, whose sales in Tennessee have been on the decline since December. I think having a Tennessee jackpot winner will excite folks, said Rebecca Paul, president and CEO of the state lottery, referring to Wednesday night's $25.5 million win by a family from South Pittsburg, Tenn. The large award was shared by Richie and Bobbi Hubbard, Brent and
Apr 4, 2005, 11:54 am - Lottery News

Store owners sell themselves $25.5 million Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
Their day started with a phone call that they had won $25,000.And it only got better from there.Twenty-five million dollars better, in fact, for the Hubbard family Richie, Bobbi, Brent, Brian, Angel and Stacey, the first people to buy a ticket in Tennessee and win the Powerball lottery jackpot.''That sure is a lot of zeroes,'' Richie Hubbard said as he and his family posed with an oversized cardboard check at the Tennessee Lottery's MetroCenter headquarters in Nashville yesterday afternoon.When
Apr 1, 2005, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery Sales Pass $1 BillionNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery announced today that gross ticket sales have surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.This is terrific news for education, said CEO and President Rebecca Paul. Tennessee players have embraced this new way to raise dollars for education. This milestone represents an ongoing level of success that we are committed to continue.Lottery officials said they soon will start their fourth computerized game, set to begin late spring. The new game is said
Mar 14, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Tennessee flooded with a multitude of lottery billsNews Story
On the brink of $1 billion in ticket sales, the year-old Tennessee lottery is the subject of 53 bills in the General Assembly to alter its operations.State Rep. Ulysses Jones Jr., D-Memphis, who chaired an abbreviated meeting of the joint Lottery Oversight Committee on Monday, said the number of bills to change the lottery was more than I expected. But every bill's sponsor will not leave the legislative session happy, he said. I don't think you'll see 53 bills coming out of committee, Jones sa
Mar 8, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Tennessee bill would prohibit sales of lottery tickets on SundaysNews Story
Lottery Post Exclusive: Democrat duo wants to deny sales of lottery tickets on Sundays Rep. Frank Buck, D-Dowelltown, and Sen. Doug Jackson, D-Dickson are sponsoring a bill that would forbid the sale of lottery tickets in the State of Tennessee on Sundays. The measure is among the 2,337 bills filed in Tennessee's 104th General Assembly. The bill specifies that ticket sales will be forbidden for an 18-hour period each week beginning at 12:00 a.m. on Sunday and ending at 6:00 a.m. on Mo
Feb 21, 2005, 1:09 pm - Lottery News

Memphis woman wins $1 millionNews Story
Minnie Williams has lots of reasons to smile - one million reasons, to be exact.An exhilarated Williams, 54, of Memphis, Tennessee, won $1 million Saturday evening at the culmination of the Tennessee Lottery's second Millionaire Live! drawing event.The other two finalists who participated didn't leave empty-handed. Bobby Myers, Jr., 69, of Dyersburg, won $25,000, while Diane Taylor, 46, from Memphis, won $10,000 after the initial contestant elimination.The half-hour event was televised through
Feb 7, 2005, 5:54 pm - Lottery News

Dispute erupts over use of Tennessee lottery fundsNews Story
Tennessee State Sen. Steve Cohen Thursday attacked Gov. Phil Bredesens pre-kindergarten initiative, saying the use of lottery money to fund the program is illegal and unconstitutional.Cohen (D-Memphis), the chief legislative architect of the state lottery, accused the administration of bringing intentionally low lottery projections to the legislature in 2003 numbers that ultimately led to the substantial surplus now available, he said.Bredesen called Cohens remarks astonishing.The lottery was de
Feb 4, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

Will Tennessee's new games cloud Kentucky lottery's future?News Story
Kentucky has Daniel Boone, Abe Lincoln, Adolph Rupp, Loretta Lynn, and Ashley Judd.Tenessee has Davy Crockett, Andy Jackson, Bob Neyland, Dolly Parton, and Dixie Carter.For a couple of centuries, there has been a border rivalry between Kentucky and Tennessee as the states have dueled over history and heroes and have had spats over sports and politics. Now the rivalry has become more serious than ever. The Big and the Big Orange are fighting over the Big Green - as in money.Kentucky has the lotte
Jan 27, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Kentucky lottery sales fall, but still exceed forecastNews Story
Tennessee games cut into revenue The year-old Tennessee Lottery continues to have less impact on Kentucky Lottery revenues than expected, with ticket sales for the first six months of fiscal 2004-05 down just 8 percent from the same period last year.Sales from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2004, were $20 million higher than forecast last spring, when officials were still trying to gauge the impact of the competing Tennessee Lottery, directors of the Kentucky Lottery Corp. learned at a meeting late las
Jan 25, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News