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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $20 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Oregon lottery chief resigns in wake of audit. Embattled Oregon Lottery Director Chris Lyons announced her resignation Monday, only weeks after an audit found $750,000 in questionable travel expenses and perks provided to Lottery employees. More: Oregon Lottery director resigns.Tenn. lottery easily approved as voter results verified. Tennesseans cleared the way for a state lottery with 68,320 votes to spare, according to Nov. 5 election returns certified as official yesterday.Jackpot-winning young offender compensates coach firm. A young offender who won £9.7 million on the National Lottery has paid compensation to the coach company whose vehicle he damaged.
Monday, December 2, 2002
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Branson called in to 'stop Lottery rot'. Richard Branson, a multi-millionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Virgin group of companies, has been asked by the UK Government for ideas on how to inject fresh excitement into the Lottery, which last week announced the lowest ticket sales in its eight-year history. More: Athletes to feel pinch as Lottery ticket sales slump.Andrew N.S. Glazer: New blackjack trick isn't worth the risk. If you want to be a more successful blackjack player, you'd better be one of those old dogs who can learn new tricks, because the game is changing, and you need to change your playing style with it.
Saturday, November 30, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 3 lucky players from New York matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, November 29, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $15 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Ohio lawmakers push for Internet lottery expansion. A bill introduced recently in the Senate would give the Ohio Lottery Commission authority to develop rules and conduct games online.Town becomes a lottery millionaires' row. Ilford has been named the luckiest place in Britain for National Lottery jackpot winners. The Essex town has seen 22 winning tickets - or one for every 9,429 eligible players.Meet N.J.'s top dealer in dreams. Todd's News Agency is a small, modest store that remains the top seller of lottery tickets among New Jersey's 6,000 licensed dealers.Woman plans to use lottery winners to send grandchildren to college. A retired beautician whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War plans to use the more than $800,000 she won in the Kansas Cash lottery game to send some of her eight grandchildren to college.Arkansas legislators consider prospects for lottery. Two Arkansas legislators — one about to enter the state Senate, the other about to depart — offered different estimates of prospects for a state lottery.
Thursday, November 28, 2002
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Happy Thanksgiving from BigGameLottery.com!
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
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Statisticians contradict and confuse. Over the past few days, several news stories have appeared in the mainstream press hoping to paint a picture of the average lottery player. The problem is that they can't seem to get their stories straight. We think the recent hightened attention by the press at its misguided attempt to classify who plays lottery games is merely a ploy to push political and idealogical agendas. The editorial board chooses the story that fits their idealogical view, and you basically get social commentary, not news. The fact is that people from every stripe of life play lottery games, as well as participate in other gambling activities, and we don't welcome the pollsters to the game. Editor now steps off soapbox. Here is a sampling of recent contradictory news stories to back our claims:
Survey: Average lottery players black women - The Sun News
Survey: Average lottery player is white male - Herald Tribune
Portrait of a lottery player: black, male, under 55 - The State
UK National Lottery sales dive. Camelot reports the worst ticket sales ever, despite £72m revamp and promise of yet more ways of trying to win. More:
Lottery sales continue to slide
Lotto rebranding fails to prove a winner as ticket sales fall 5%
Ticket sales not making a lotto
Tenn. Attorney General suggests caution on lottery. Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers and other top state officials advised a panel of legislators yesterday to proceed with caution in setting up the state lottery, to ensure its fiscal soundness and keep it free from corruption.NJ Cash 5 winners got shorted $13. A technical glitch Monday caused Lottery machines to incorrectly pay out $13 instead of $26 to some of the 2,400 players who had picked three of five numbers in Sunday's Jersey Cash 5 game, lottery officials said.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 2 in New Jersey, 1 in Georgia, and 1 in Massachusetts. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, November 26, 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!Oregon gov. tells lottery to "get house in order". The weeks of controversy at the Oregon State Lottery may be coming to an end with a shake up of top officials. The governor may consider changes at the agency that makes millionaires out of ordinary people.Virginia couple wins big lottery prize -- again. After they won a $10 million Virginia Lotto jackpot eleven years ago, Clyde and Edith Shinault last week scratched a winning ticket for $1,000 a week for life.Internet gambling industry wins key ruling. Internet gambling supporters won a major legal victory Thursday when a federal appeals court in Louisiana ruled that online gamblers failed to prove that online casinos and the credit card companies they used to process their wagers violated federal racketeering laws and the federal Wire Act.
Monday, November 25, 2002
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Lottery lessons: Visits to Georgia show what issues may lie ahead for Tennessee. Nearly 58% of Tennessee voters approved a constitutional amendment this month that allows the state to start a lottery to support essentially the same types of programs Georgia has: college scholarships, early-learning and after-school programs, and K-12 construction and technology projects.Carpenter wins $27 million jackpot. A carpenter who lives in rural Wyoming County in western New York waited two months before redeeming his winning ticket for a $27 million lottery jackpot.PA Powerball sales
hurting sales in WV. Since Pennsylvania joined the Powerball jackpot this summer, ticket sales in West Virginia's border counties have dropped about 17 percent, lottery officials said, but other areas of the state saw increased ticket sales in October.Lottery flush with reserve money. The Oregon lottery spending policies have been under question since their recent audit. With all of the money that is obtained from lottery tickets, lawmakers are questioning why the money isn't getting into Oregon classrooms.
Saturday, November 23, 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 Massachusetts, 1 in Michigan, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, November 22, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $10 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Texas may join Mega Millions. State Representative Robert Puente of San Antonio says there are several multi-state games that exist, but "Mega Millions" is probably the most conducive for Texas. Editor: The linked article incorrectly states that there are sixteen Mega Millions states - there are ten.Lottery winners: Ohio store sells two winners within a week. A store in Mt. Sterling, Ohio, which has seen big lottery winners before, has had two more -- within a few days of each other.VA woman loses life savings in lottery scam. A 90-year-old New Kent County, Virginia woman was among at least six Americans who lost their life savings in a lottery scam originating from Canada.Firm buys lottery operation. Scientific Games Corp. Tuesday agreed to acquire MDI Entertainment Inc. for $18.5 million.Man missed £2m lottery win "because his wages were late". A German man tried to sue his boss for paying him late which he claims cost him a £2 million lottery jackpot.£9.7m lottery winner fined for fare dodging. A 19-year-old UK lottery winner who scooped £9.7 million earlier this month, said he could not afford tickets worth £5.10 for two journeys he took in July as he was unemployed at the time.Gift with this subscription: $10.5M. A 36-year-old East Greenbush, New York bachelor won half of a $21 million jackpot on Nov. 2, using the numbers played for him automatically through a six-month lottery subscription.
