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Happy Independence Day from BigGameLottery.com!Black wants to have lottery referendum vote next week. North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black said Wednesday he wants to vote on a statewide lottery referendum next week.$1.1m jackpot winner to build school for poor. An Indian who earns Rs150 ($3) a day as a mason has won a Rs52 million ($1.1 million) lottery jackpot but said yesterday he would carry on working and use his winnings to build a school or a hospital for poor children. More: Indian pauper strikes lottery gold.DDB Chicago Awarded Illinois Lottery Contract. The Illinois Lottery awarded its $20 million account to DDB Chicago, following a review.
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
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Ohio lottery sales show increase after slide. Ohio Lottery sales inched up in the last fiscal year, allowing the state-run gambling operation to surpass its goal in contributions to education. The commission said yesterday that sales in the 12 months that ended June 30 reached $1.988 billion, some $68 million more than the previous year.Man Sues Grandmother for Lottery Winnings. A Florida woman who won millions playing Lotto last year is being sued by her grandson, who claims he should get half of the prize because he helped her pick the winning numbers.S.C. Lottery's program cuts cost of tuition. The South Carolina Education Lottery will cut tuition nearly in half for Aiken Technical College students eligible for the lottery's tuition assistance program.Anti-gambling bill called 'anti-terrorism' bill. The House Financial Services committee has voted 62-1 for a bill that blocks all debit and credit card transactions at Internet gambling sites, extraordinarily calling it an 'anti-terrorism' bill. Editor: Politics at its worst - shame on those who use the threat of terrorism as a crutch to impose their personal agenda.New 180-day prize claim law goes into effect for Missouri. Starting July 1, Missouri Lottery players will have 180 days instead of one year to claim Lottery prizes, as a result of a law change during the past legislative session. The shorter claim period will allow the Lottery to finalize game reports more quickly. More: Deadline for redeeming lottery prizes shortened.
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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, 1 in Illinois, 2 in New York, and 3 in Ohio. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $83 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Retired Air Force officer wins $175,000 Mega Millions Prize. Howard Manly of Newport News, Virginia randomly selected numbers for the June 25, 2002 Mega Millions drawing - and those numbers made him $175,000 richer.Virginia couple claims $5.6 million Lotto South jackpot. Richard and Delores Szymanski of Alexandria, Virginia bought two Lotto South tickets for the June 26, 2002 Lotto South drawing - the first one won five dollars, and the second won $4.6 million, plus a $1 million bonus for purchasing a jackpot-winning Lotto South ticket in Virginia.Mass. Lottery's chances may depend on budget deliberations. Whether the Massachusetts lottery's success will continue may depend on budget deliberations that include a proposal from acting Gov. Jane Swift's to raise state revenues by reducing the lottery payouts. Swift's proposal was not met with open arms by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman John Rogers, D-Norwood, who maintained it was too risky, since a drop in payouts could very well equate to a drop in sales.Publicity pays off with arrest of Latin Lotto scam suspects. Three months after going all out to inform the public about the Latin Lotto scam, officials with the Texas Lottery Commission say the effort has paid off. Publicity about the con game is believed to have contributed to arrests of suspects in San Antonio, Austin and Carrollton.
Monday, July 1, 2002
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Michigan lotto game to get heave-ho. The Michigan Lottery is test-driving replacements for Michigan Millions, gambling's version of the XFL.Louisiana lottery sales hit highest mark in years. The national economy may have fallen on hard times, but the Louisiana Lottery is having its best year since the state's riverboat casinos began competing for gambling dollars nearly eight years ago.Party lines are dividing lines on N.C. lottery vote. As they prepare to decide whether to put a lottery to a vote of the people, members of the North Carolina state House from Forsyth and surrounding counties are divided straight down party lines: Democrats like it and Republicans don't.UK Lottery jackpot awaits a forgetful player. A £711,607 National Lottery jackpot prize is up for grabs and, if you live in Perth and Kinross, this time it really could be you.Internet Gambling Ban Faces Long Odds. A congressional attempt to ban Internet gambling faces long odds of passage, handicappers say, as the clock winds down on the legislative year and interest groups continue to register their opposition.
Saturday, June 29, 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 New Jersey, 1 in Michigan, 2 in New York, and 1 in Ohio. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, June 28, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $72 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!7 proves lucky number in D.C. Lottery. Seven was the lucky number for about 550 D.C. Lottery players, who picked 7-7-7-7 in the D.C. Four game, racking up winnings totaling nearly $1.2 million and beating the one-in-10,000 odds.May sales come close to lottery record. May was the second highest sales month in West Virginia state lottery history, topped only by August 2001, when sales were boosted by a $295 million Powerball jackpot, the Lottery Commission learned this week.N.C. House speaker ready to move on lottery. North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black said Wednesday he probably will bring up legislation for a state lottery referendum in two weeks, and at least two key votes appear to be shifting his way.Andrew N.S. Glazer: A "Plan B" eases misery of losing. Unless you possess the kind of self-control that only the top 1 percent or so of all gamblers do, it's of the utmost importance that you be able to recognize when it's not your day and get the heck out.
Thursday, June 27, 2002
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Powerball on sale in Penn. today. The Pennsylvania Lottery started selling Powerball tickets this morning at 5:00 a.m. today, the first joint game venture with other states during its 30 years of existence. More: Powerball lottery lands in Penn..Happy ending to sad lottery tale. Charity bosses today owed a final vote of thanks to lottery millionaire Phil Kitchen after his 17th century pad was sold for a staggering £920,000.Woman loses thousands in lottery scam. An 84-year-old Venice, Florida woman recently lost more than $14,000 to scam artists, according to Venice police.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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Hard-hit UK lottery could be nationalized. The UK National Lottery could be taken over by the Government in response to a slump in ticket sales. More: Jubilee and football blamed for low sales of lottery.Lottery winners pack up, vanish. On their first day as millionaires, Myrtle and John Connell said goodbye to their Clifton, New Jersey neighbors, packed up their modest home on Merselis Avenue, and disappeared.S.C. man wins first Carolina 5 jackpot. Cyril Randolph Bamberg of Columbia, South Carolina picked the five winning numbers in last Friday's first drawing of the S.C. Lottery's newest game, Carolina 5. His ticket beat out about 700,000 others to take the prize.Man dubbed luckiest in Britain after winning Lotto and racing bet. Les Carvell is being called the luckiest man in Britain after winning £1.1m on the National Lottery and now scooping a further £74,500 on the horses.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in New Jersey, 2 in Georgia, 1 in Massachusetts, 1 in Maryland, 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, June 25, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $60 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Church leaders denounce proposal for N.C. lottery. Condemning a North Carolina state lottery for placing an unfair burden on the poor and for advertising that leads people to gamble, leaders of the state's Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran and Catholic churches joined yesterday to voice opposition to a lottery. More: NC religious leaders say lottery opposition will be strong.Big Ticket lottery about to be axed. Ontario Attorney-General David Young is poised to do away with a high-end government lottery that featured luxury prizes, after complaints it was sucking charity dollars from other organizations.N.J. couple claim $45.8 million Pick 6 jackpot. A couple from Passaic County, New Jersey came forward to claim the $45.8 million jackpot from the Pick 6 Lotto drawing held on Monday, June 3. The jackpot is the third largest awarded in Pick 6 Lotto history.Camelot may have to share UK lottery rights. Camelot faces losing exclusive control of the UK National Lottery under sweeping reforms to be considered by Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture. She is expected to unveil proposals in the House of Commons this week for a major overhaul of the rules governing the game and powers of its regulator, the National Lottery Commission.
Monday, June 24, 2002
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Five winning tickets in $70 million TX Lotto. Five winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $70 million jackpot, the Texas Lottery Commission said. The winning tickets were sold in Austin, Pearland, Sherman, Longview and Terrell, a lottery spokeswoman said. Four of the five tickets were bought Saturday. The winning numbers were 2, 11, 13, 16, 26 and 34.Powerball tickets go on sale Thursday in Pennsylvania. About 6,000 lottery vendors, including convenience and grocery stores, are to begin selling Powerball tickets at 5 a.m. Thursday in hopes of drawing the hordes of Pennsylvanians who previously traveled to Delaware and West Virginia to buy the tickets.Black: It's time to tackle lottery. In North Carolina, the governor is still pushing for a lottery and House members are worried about using one-time money to balance the state budget, and House Speaker Jim Black says he'll bring a lottery to a vote in the House in the next two weeks.Man offered holiday after lottery publishes wrong numbers. A man who thought he had become a millionaire on the Dutch lottery has found out officials published the wrong numbers.Kentucky couple wins $14 million. A western Kentucky couple claimed the $14 million Powerball jackpot yesterday after learning a day after the drawing that they had purchased the winning ticket.Virginia State Lottery Selects Contact Center Solution. HigherGround, a pioneer and provider of customer interaction recording and telecom management solutions for the contact center industry, today announced the Virginia State Lottery has chosen the HigherGround Mentor, a recording and monitoring solution to facilitate outbound sales, improve field service dispatch operations, as well as impact overall quality management in two of its facilities in Richmond, VA.N.Y. Lottery gives 151 graduates $4,000 scholarship. The New York Lottery officially recognized 151 graduating high school seniors from the Hudson Valley area who will earn a four-year, $4,000 Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship funded by the lottery.D.C. Lottery Picks a 'Lucky Dog'. Rocky, a 2-year-old midnight black mix of Lab and border collie, charmed a panel of judges at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Woodley Park with his winsome stare yesterday and was picked to become the mascot for the D.C. Lottery, beating back competition from 22 other canines.
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