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$85.7M Powerball lottery jackpot is Lousiana's 14thNews Story
By Todd Northrop One ticket purchased in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, won the $85.7 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night, the second-largest single amount won in Louisiana Lottery history. This latest winning ticket brings the total number of Powerball jackpot winning tickets sold in Louisiana to 14 since the Lottery joined the multi-state game in 1995. The last time a Powerball jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Baton Rouge was February 2005. The winning ticket was sold at Circle K #190
Aug 2, 2010, 12:31 pm - Lottery News

$250,000 Mega Million prize may be forfeitedNews Story
Illinois Lottery officials say a player who bought a second-place winning Mega Millions ticket nearly a year ago in Des Plaines needs to redeem the $250,000 ticket by month's end or lose the prize. The second place Mega ticket for the July 31, 2009 drawing was sold at a 7-Eleven store on Lee St. in Des Plaines. The ticket matched all five numbers but missed the Mega Ball. The winning numbers were 17, 35, 44, 52 and 56 with a Mega Ball number of 22 and a Megaplier number of 2. If the winnin
Jul 27, 2010, 3:36 am - Lottery News

Refreshingly candid: Ga. Lottery chief discusses future game plansNews Story
Georgia Lottery chief Margaret DeFrancisco tries to stay ahead of the pack. In the lottery's sprawling downtown offices, DeFrancisco wheels around on a kid's scooter with a bell on the handlebars so she can avoid close calls with the walking crowd. And with the pressure mounting as demand for lottery revenue for HOPE scholarships and pre-k outstrips its growth, she's searching for new sources of money. Down the road, DeFrancisco said, don't be surprised if interactive lottery games appear
Jul 20, 2010, 9:19 am - Lottery News

Fire destroys car of Powerball lottery winnerNews Story
Fire officials are investigating the cause of an early morning car fire on the Merritt Parkway that destroyed an Audi R8 belonging to a Connecticut Powerball winner. According to reports, Rahul Patel, of Newington, was driving the car, only a week old, northbound on the parkway around 9 a.m., when, between exit 46 and 47 in Fairfield, he looked up in the rearview mirror and saw smoke. As the car's engine is in the rear, Patel pulled over to see if there was something wrong with the vehicle
Jul 11, 2010, 8:38 pm - Lottery News

First N.C. Mega Millions lottery winner claims jackpotNews Story
The sole winner of a May 28 Mega Millions drawing for $12 million has finally come forward. Lottery officials said a Greensboro man turned in the ticket on Wednesday. Mike Manheim, a retired businessman, and his wife, Faye, made the trip to Raleigh to claim their millions. The couple told lottery officials they have played the lottery since the North Carolina Education Lottery launched in 2006. The couple chose the lump sum option of $7.8 million. They plan to use their money to invest in
Jul 10, 2010, 4:06 pm - Lottery News

$260M Ohio Powerball lottery winner claims jackpot anonymouslyNews Story
Uses blind trust to keep privacy The holder of Ohio's first Powerball jackpot prize ticket came forward Tuesday to claim the $260 million prize in a blind trust. The drawing for the $260 million jackpot was Wednesday, June 2, and the winning ticket was sold at Hub Carryout in Sunbury. George M. Hoffman, of Columbus, is trustee of The 2010 Blind Trust and made the claim on behalf of the winner at Lottery offices in Cleveland. The holder of the ticket chose the cash option for this jac
Jul 8, 2010, 8:29 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery reports record salesNews Story
The Ohio Lottery says it's on a roll, with the introduction of Powerball helping the agency post another year of record sales. Officials say the lottery enjoyed $2.48 billion in sales during the fiscal year that ended Wednesday, up from $2.42 billion in the previous fiscal year. Sales grew for the ninth straight year. The lottery says it has poured $728.6 in annual profits into a state education fund. Officials say that's the second largest profit transfer in the lottery's 36-year hi
Jul 5, 2010, 6:16 am - Lottery News

Lottery winners get their checks, keep working at plantNews Story
A year ago, William Shanteau and his 13 co-workers at a Detroit auto plant were worried their jobs could be gone at any moment. Now they're all millionaires after winning a share of last week's $96.9 million Powerball drawing. Most of the group from the paint shop at a Chrysler plant that makes Jeep Grand Cherokees plans to keep working, Shanteau said Thursday after working a 12-hour shift. It's like family, he said, adding that at least two of the jackpot winners plan to retire, and h
Jul 2, 2010, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Michigan workers claim Mega Millions, Powerball lottery jackpotsNews Story
Call it a jackpot bonanza. Factory workers in Detroit and Kalamazoo are winners of multimillion-dollar lottery prizes. Fourteen workers called the Lucky 13 Plus One lottery club at the Chrysler plant in Detroit that makes the Dodge Viper will share in last week's $96.6 million Powerball pot, while five workers at a Kalamazoo factory will share $36 million in the Mega Millions drawing. Bells and whistles went off, said William Shanteau, when he took the winning ticket to Shirley's Carry
Jun 29, 2010, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Lottery mistake wins Ohio store clerk $250,000News Story
An Ohio store clerk's mistake when printing a Mega Millions lottery ticket has won her $250,000. Naomi Mauller, a clerk at Woolfe's Huff Puff on Main Street in New Lexington, Ohio, forgot to add an extra Kicker game to a customer's lottery ticket on Tuesday night, so she printed a new ticket and bought her $2 mistake. Both her ticket and its twin hit, raking in $250,000 for each winner. You can't cancel the Mega Millions ticket, said Mauller, 51, a resident of New Lexington in Perry Count
Jun 28, 2010, 7:41 am - Lottery News