Beware of lotto scam requiring upfront fee
Carol Harrington of Pequot Lakes, Minn., last week got a taste of the same sort of excitement she had a couple of years ago, when she won a $120,000 Gopher 5 prize in the Minnesota State Lottery | 09/10/2005 |
Idaho Powerball millionaire fields marriage, investment proposals
A 33-year-old Idaho man who won a $220.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot Memorial Day weekend has spent his summer appearing on TV shows, taking friends to Tahiti, fielding marriage proposals from strangers and starting to build a new stadium at his hometown high school. | 09/10/2005 |
MEGA Millions Jackpot Breaks Record in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2005--A record-breaking $172 million jackpot for the California State Lottery's newest lotto game, MEGA Millions, is the highest prize since the game was introduced in June. This is the second highest ever jackpot offered to Californians in the California State Lottery's 20 year history | 09/09/2005 |
North Carolina welcomes lottery
Last week North Carolina became the final state on the East Coast to have a lottery when Gov. Mike Easley signed the controversial State Lottery Act into law. Passage of the bill is considered a political victory for the Easley who has expressed a desire to implement a lottery in North Carolina since 2001 and made the lottery the centerpiece of his re-election campaign last fall. | 09/09/2005 |
State lottery warns players of scam
The Minnesota State Lottery is warning people of a scam in which someone is sending letters from a group called the Minnesota State Lotto & Sunset Minnesota Lotto. | 09/09/2005 |
Powerball Jackpot Grows to $70 Million
POWERBALL, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The jackpot in America's favoritelottery game continues to grow. The grand prize was not awarded Wednesday, but325,286 players across the nation won a total of more than $3 million inprizes. | 09/08/2005 |
Florida Lottery is popular, profitable
The Aug. 31 article State lottery hurt by casinos has inaccurate information. While the source of the data -- Casino City's North American Gaming Almanac -- states that the lottery's 2004 sales were $1.36 billion, the actual figure is $3.07 billion for the 2003-2004 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent over the previous year. | 09/08/2005 |
Mega Millions Puts the Sizzle in Summer With Estimated $172 Million Jackpot
MEGA MILLIONS, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- There's no stopping the excitement in Mega Millions. More than 850,000 tickets were winners in the Tuesday, September 6, 2005 drawing, including 8 tickets that each won $250,000. However, no one won the big prize, the $150 million jackpot. So the jackpot for the Friday, September 9 drawing grows to an estimated $172 million. | 09/07/2005 |
Mixed feelings on lottery, sales tax
Some associated with Pitt County Schools have mixed feelings about playing the lottery but are glad the money is scheduled to go toward education. | 09/07/2005 |
That's a whole Lotto bread!
They're rolling in dough.Ten bakery workers at a Staten Island Shop Rite are splitting some major bread - a $19 million New York Lottery jackpot. | 09/07/2005 |
