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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $30 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Lawmaker says lottery sole hope for more education funding. Approval of the Tennessee lottery referendum Nov. 5 is the only reasonable hope for additional state education funding for the next five years, state Sen. Steve Cohen said Monday.Tennesseans back lottery referendum by 2-1 margin. Tennesseans continue to support a proposed lottery referendum by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a poll released Monday.Sunday Lottery for MI?. Beginning Oct. 6, Michigan will have Sunday drawings for the Pick Three and Pick Four games and the Michigan Roll Down.
Monday, September 23, 2002
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Lottery sales interrupted. About 360 Kansas lottery vendors were unable to sell Powerball or Kansas lottery tickets Saturday because of a problem with phone lines.Candidates take chance on lottery. An Oklahoma lottery proposal isn't on this year's election ballot, but it might as well be, as two of the three candidates for governor are making it a major part of their campaigns. More: Gubernatorial hopefuls debate lottery.Numbers show Texas not big winner in lottery. Texas's lotto game this week saw its jackpot increase by the lowest amount in the game's history.Store owner smiling after lottery payout. The owner of Casa de Liquor in Rosemead was presented Friday with a check for $152,500 from the California Lottery for selling the winning ticket in the $122 million drawing Aug. 25, the third-largest jackpot in California history.
Saturday, September 21, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in Georgia, 1 in Illinois, 1 in Michigan, 1 in New York, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, September 20, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $23 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!25 cent lottery tickets offered. The Michigan Lottery will take bets as small as a quarter in the new game "Change Play" starting Oct. 13. More: New game makes cents for lottery.Gaming states celebrate defeat. To store owners south of the border, North Carolina's lottery defeat Tuesday was like hitting the jackpot. More:
Local residents split on lottery
Lottery fervor may wane
Disappointed voters head to polls Nov. 5
Lottery referendum
Thursday, September 19, 2002
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Despite vote against referendum, most voters want lottery, statewide poll shows. State legislators might have voted down a lottery referendum, but most voters in the state say they support a lottery, according to a statewide poll released yesterday. More: Poll Indicates N.C. Voters Support LotteryMega Millions win couldn't come at a better time. More about Maureen Morand of Bay City, Michigan, who, as reported yesterday, won a $175,000 Mega Millions prize.Lottery seems as popular in church circles as witches in Salem. Editorial supporting Tennessee churches rallying against a state lottery.N.D. Lottery Opponents Form Committee. Lottery opponents have organized their own group to convince North Dakotans to vote no on measure two.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
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N.C. House Kills Lottery Referendum. The state House on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have let North Carolina voters have their say on whether to establish a state lottery. More:
Legislators Reject Lottery Referendum
Democrats pull lottery out of budget
Lottery loses in N.C. House vote
N.C. House refuses to put lottery on ballot
N.C. House says no to lottery referendum
Lottery supporters wonder what to do next after defeat
House nixes lottery referendum
In a major defeat for Easley, House votes 69-50 against putting it on November ballot
House turns down lottery referendum
Rejected Lottery Ticket Is a Winner. A 21-year-old store clerk bought a $10 Power Play ticket because it was rejected by a customer — and then hit the $400,000 jackpot.$177,540 jackpot disappears Friday. Someone who bought a Florida Fantasy 5 ticket at a food store in the spring could miss out on the chance to collect more than $175,000 if the prize isn't claimed by Friday, lottery officials said.Naples Lotto winner keeps low profile. Ronald T. Berger finally made a trip to Tallahassee and returned to Naples about $10 million richer.
Recent $175,000 Mega Millions winners from Michigan:
Maureen Morand of Bay City
Brian O' Keefe of St. Clair Shores
Anti-Lottery Group Using Fake Senator to Help Defeat Referendum. His name is Senator Lotto J. Scratchoff, and you'll soon be seeing him at the center of the Tennessee lottery debate.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 7 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in New Jersey, 2 in Illinois, 2 in New York, 1 in Ohio, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $17 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Winning Powerball ticket sold at Indianapolis gas station. The owner of the Indianapolis ticket, which was bought at the Crystal Flash gas station at 1215 S. Girls School Road, had not come forward by noon Monday. More: West Side Store Sells Winning $100m Powerball Ticket.Poll respondents favor Tennessee lottery. If the vote were taken today, it appears that voters would overwhelmingly approve a Tennessee lottery.Democrats to include lottery in N.C. budget bill - for now. With a deadline from elections officials looming, North Carolina House Democratic leaders are scurrying to pass a final budget plan that includes a lottery referendum. More: House votes on lottery today.Lucky in lottery, life. Nelson Marker has won computer sweepstakes, $2002 in the Md. lottery, and the fight against a debilitating disease.S.C. Lottery prepares for Powerball launch. The S.C. Education Lottery Commission cranked up its marketing efforts Monday as it marched toward the Oct. 5 launch of Powerball, the big jackpot game expected to generate $1 million a week in sales. More: Powerball set to begin Oct. 5.Kentucky colleges, universities got $38 million from lottery scholarships. Public and private colleges and universities in Kentucky took in nearly $38 million last year from lottery-funded scholarships, according to state figures released Monday.
Recent $175,000 Mega Millions winners from Ohio:
Columbus art museum workers
Erna C. Pengal of Eastlake
Mary E. Henney of Clyde
Thomas E. Ernest of Canal Winchester
Columbus Mitchell of Kent
Robert A. Biscella of New Waterford
Monday, September 16, 2002
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Do schools win big at the lottery?. The New York state comptroller says governors have always relied on lottery revenue to pay for education. The governor's office says that's not so.N.C. lottery, budget may be untied. North Carolina legislative budget negotiators still had not decided late Friday whether to insert lottery language in the state spending plan. The reason is simple: They have little guarantee that the full legislature will go along with the idea. More:
Odds are lawmakers face lottery vote next week
Legislators are deadlocked over lottery referendum
Lottery draws planned for every day. UK National Lotto operator Camelot is said to be looking at the possibility of having daily draws from next year.To bet, or not to bet: Readers speak up. The possibility of a Tennessee lottery is one very hot political potato.Two Winning Tickets To Split $103.5 Million Powerball Jackpot. Two winning tickets, one sold in Indiana and one sold in Pennsylvania, will split a $103.5 million Powerball jackpot.POLL: North Dakotans support lottery. A new poll shows more than 70 percent support for a North Dakota lottery.
Saturday, September 14, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in New Jersey, 1 in Massachusetts, and 1 in Maryland. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, September 13, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $12 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Jessee Bays Jr. of Grand Rapids, MI Collects $10,071,089 Jackpot Prize in September 6, 2002 Mega Millions Drawing. When Jessee Bays Jr. married his wife, Julie, just one short week ago, he never dreamed they would become instant millionaires! Bays was the only Mega Millions player in 10 states to correctly match all six winning numbers in the September 6, 2002 Mega Millions drawing.Eerie 9-1-1 Lottery Draws Interest. New York Lottery officials said Thursday that 5,631 people had selected the tragic numbers and that they won $500 each.N.C. lottery in budget talks. The lottery has always been a controversial subject in the North Carolina General Assembly, and tempers are flaring yet again over the possibility that budget negotiators will insert language in the state budget calling for a statewide lottery referendum.TX lottery sales up for year. Texas Lottery sales grew nearly five percent during fiscal year 2002, the Lottery Commission said Thursday.Man finds winning lottery ticket while cleaning out desk. Jay Taylor was cleaning out his desk this week when he found a forgotten lottery ticket. He almost threw it out, thinking it wasn't worth anything. He decided to check the numbers instead and is now $649,000 richer.Lottery Debate Scheduled for September 23rd. Pro-lottery state senator Steve Cohen will take on Michael Gilstrap of the "Gambling Free Tennessee Alliance."Lottery winner shares money with his brother and sister. A postal worker from Monmouth County, New Jersey who won a $4.7 million New Jersey Lottery jackpot is sharing the winnings with his two siblings, officials said Thursday.
