| Archived Lottery News for July, 2009Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 6:00 am – Arkansas Lottery Commission votes to join Powerball. The Arkansas Lottery Commission voted Wednesday to join the multi-state Powerball games, tickets for which may go on sale in the state as soon as this year, the state's lottery director said.
- 12:47 am – Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $200,000 prize: 1 from Delaware, 1 from Montana and 1 from Pennsylvania. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:05 pm – Powerball: The Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 9-32-38-52-53, and the Powerball is 15. The Power Play number is 2. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Powerball page, or you can use the Powerball Search page to type the numbers on your ticket and have the USA Mega computer search the past results. We will announce the number of big winners in this drawing, the states they came from, and the next jackpot within the next couple of hours, here on USA Mega. Good luck!
- 8:20 pm – New Hampshire crushes lottery winners with new 10% tax. The day before a massive 10 percent state tax on lottery prizes went into effect in the Granite State, two winners claimed separate $1 million jackpots -- something never before witnessed by a 20-year veteran of the lottery.
- 8:00 pm – Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitches. A new company began running the Ohio Lottery's computer system on Wednesday, causing frustrating problems for some retailers and leaving some winning tickets incorrectly coming up as losers.
- 9:00 am – Oklahoma Lottery starts daily drawings of Cash 5 game. Beginning tonight, July 1, the Oklahoma Lottery will conduct daily drawings of its Cash 5 game.
- 7:03 am – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Mega Millions drawing, but 6 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from California, 1 from Michigan, 1 from New Jersey, and 2 from Ohio. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.
- 2:20 am – Two winners to share record A$106 million Australian lottery. A couple from Queensland state and a man from South Australia will share more than A$106 million (US$86 million) as the only jackpot winners in the nation's record lottery drawn last night.
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