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Workers' winning combination. Seven A.O. Reed & Co. employees – and the father and sister of one of them – held the winning numbers for the $122 million California State Lottery jackpot Saturday night. More: The luck of the draw.Television ad tries to sway opinions on lottery vote. A pro-lottery group has started airing a television ad designed to encourage support for a referendum on a numbers game for education in North Carolina. More: Ad 'Thanks' N.C. Residents for Buying S.C. Lottery Tickets.Religious leader opposes Tenn. lottery. "There are reasons of morality that I'm against a lottery, but the world doesn't understand morality so we've got to fight this on other grounds," said the Rev. Joe Wright, director of missions for the Dyer Baptist Association.
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Jackpot Winner! There was one $105 million jackpot winner from New York in the Tuesday drawing. This is the first time a player from New York has won the Mega Millions jackpot since the state joined the game in May. More details to follow after the winner comes forward to claim their prize.
Also, 11 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in New Jersey, 1 in Georgia, 2 in Illinois, 2 in Massachusetts, 1 in Michigan, 1 in New York, 1 in Ohio, and 2 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $105 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Brisbane's Super Lotto winner comes forward. Cindy Blair, who emerged publicly yesterday as one of four winning ticket holders in Saturday's $122 million California Super Lotto drawing, has already given her bosses two weeks notice. More: Brisbane Lotto winner all giggles.Winning Lotto Ticket Sold In San Marcos. A ticket bought in San Marcos was one of four winning tickets in the California SuperLotto Plus drawing for a jackpot of $122 million.Michigan Lottery Club Claims $175,000 Mega Millions Prize. The 13 members of the "Goons Lottery Club" of Marquette, Michigan are now walking around with a little more spending money after winning the second-tier Mega Millions prize.
Monday, August 26, 2002
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California lottery prodcues four big winners:
One Of Four Winning Super Lotto Tickets Purchased In Brisbane - KPIX/KCBS
Winning SuperLotto Plus ticket sold at Brisbane market - San Francisco Chronicle
Lotta Lotto winners
- Pasadena Star News
Giant jackpot fuels scramble for Lotto ticket to Easy Street - The Desert Sun
AZ lottery again faces voter OK. For the second time in four years, voters are being asked to decide the fate of the Arizona Lottery.Tennessee's lottery referendum will appear on Nov. 5 ballot. Tennessee's lottery referendum will appear at the top of election ballots Nov. 5, just below the governor's race and above the lists of candidates for U.S. Senate and other offices. To pass, the lottery must be approved by a total that equals at least 50 percent of the votes cast in the governor’s race plus one. That means, for example, if 1.5 million voted for governor, the lottery would need 750,001 votes to pass.Get-rich scam didn't fool N.Y. man. After receiving a letter stating that he had won $415,810 in a Spanish lottery, a New York resident became suspicious ... and his own investigation confirmed those suspicions.
Saturday, August 24, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 8 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 2 in Illinois, 1 in Maryland, 4 in New York, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, August 23, 2002
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New Lottery Post Debuts. The #1 Lottery message board on the Internet has gotten even better! Be sure to check out the new Lottery Post, featuring multiple lottery forums, Private Messenger, enhanced Search, and much more. Now more than ever, Lottery Post is the place to discuss your favorite lottery!
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $90 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Illinois Lottery to Pay Out on Two Pick 3 Midday Numbers. The Illinois Lottery will pay out on two different numbers for the August 22, 2002 Midday Pick 3 drawing. The official and final Pick 3 numbers drawn were "0-2-7." However, it appeared on television that the number "3" was going to be the last pick three number before it dropped back down into the mixing chamber. Thus, the Lottery decided that it would pay out on both 0-2-7 and 0-2-3.Calif. SuperLotto Plus Jackpot Hits $115 Million. California lottery officials announced the estimated SuperLotto Plus jackpot for Saturday night's draw at $115 million, which would make it the fourth largest jackpot in state history.New UK lottery launched. Liverpool-based Vernons has launched a new game for fed-up lottery players.Andrew N.S. Glazer: Picking a guide can be a gamble. Just because there is no shortage of gambling books doesn't mean there are hundreds of good ones.N.Y. lottery spending up 16 percent. New Yorkers have spent $2.03 billion so far this fiscal year on state lottery games, with the lion's share -- $127 million -- going to the multistate Mega Millions, according to the state Lottery Division.
Thursday, August 22, 2002
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Player seeks to restrain S.C. lottery. A Columbia woman filed a request Tuesday for a restraining order with the state Supreme Court in an attempt to stop the South Carolina Education Lottery from phasing out instant ticket games.Deadline approaches for $2 million lottery winner. People in eastern New Brunswick, Canada have been ransacking their homes looking for old lottery tickets, hoping to find one they bought a year ago and forgot about.Lottery happiness survey. Winning the National Lottery is far from a guarantee of happiness, according to a survey of millionaire winners published today.Poll: Arkansans Favor State Lottery. A poll of likely Arkansas voters shows a narrow majority favors a state lottery.
Two recent $175,000 Mega Millions winners from Michigan:
Thony Gardner of Detroit
Samuel Sopocy of Bannister
New York Lottery Pays Out $875,000 to 11 Mega Millions Winners. New York Lottery Director Margaret R. DeFrancisco announced eleven more Mega Millions second-prize winners from New York State, each receiving $175,000 for matching five of six numbers.
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
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Wash. to roll out Mega Millions early. The Washington State Lottery, hoping to generate "mega millions" to help ease the state's budget woes, will roll out its new multistate lottery game soon after Labor Day, four weeks ahead of schedule. More: Foray into giant lottery comes ahead of schedule.Texas officials looking to reinvigorate lottery. A decade ago, Texans were so excited about the state's brand new lottery that they bought enough tickets in the first three hours to pay for the games' startup. Now, with the novelty wearing off, lottery officials are faced with the challenge of keeping players' interest.Easley: Credit downgrade shows need for lottery. North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said Tuesday that a downgrade of the state's credit rating should serve as a message to legislators to approve a lottery or find another source of additional revenue.N.C. Lawmakers Receive Petitions Supporting Statewide Lottery. Supporters of a referendum on a North Carolina educational lottery have refocused their campaign on the two or three House members whose votes are needed for the measure to pass. Thanks to James in Carolina for the tip
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 6 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 1 in Illinois, 1 in Massachusetts, 2 in Michigan, 1 in New York, and 1 in Ohio. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $78 million Big Game Mega Millions drawing results!Mass. lottery official suspended. The Massachusetts State Lottery placed regional manager Luis Garcia on paid leave after he allegedly threatening to revoke a bar's Keno license during a late-night argument with a bartender.KY Lottery revenue may get smaller. If Tennessee voters approve a lottery in November it could mean an annual loss of as much as $63.9 million in Kentucky Lottery ticket sales – about 10 percent.Des Plaines, Illinois Lottery Players Have More Fun. Ross Cardella and Dominic DePalma, both of Des Plaines, Illinois, won $175,000 and $150,000 respectively, playing Mega Millions and The Big Game.
Monday, August 19, 2002
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Mega Millions a big winner in N.Y.. The multistate Mega Millions lottery game has been mega-successful, as New Yorkers have paid out more than $127 million in hopes of winning big bucks since May 17.Millionaire says he funded pro-lottery ad to back education. A Nashville computer software executive spent $30,000 of his own money on a political TV commercial that parodies an old Saturday Night Live routine to lampoon lottery foes.Ohio lottery bets on $20 instant tickets. The Ohio Lottery plans to roll out a $20 instant scratch-off game — the most expensive in state lottery history — for the holidays.Winning lottery ticket lands man in jail. A winning lottery ticket allowed police to link Jermaine Spears, 19, of Columbia with an armed robbery at a convenience store early Wednesday, when two men, one of them armed with a handgun, entered the shop and demanded cash.Casinos set to topple the UK Lottery. November will mark the eighth birthday of the UK National Lottery, and after the initial flurry of excitement there are signs that the love affair is cooling.N.M. Lottery boasts $30 million for education. The New Mexico Lottery announced its sixth straight year of record ticket sales and said it had generated nearly $30 million in profits earmarked for college scholarships.
Recent Virginia $175,000 Mega Millions Winners:
Third big win for Salisbury, NC brothers
Iris Fitzgerald of Hopewell
Tony Long of Fredericksburg
$6 million question burns in minds of Mass. Lottery officials. At 4:45 Thursday afternoon, the close of business at the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission in Braintree, three winning $400,000 Spectacular Game scratch tickets - one worth $4 million and two others worth $1 million each - will expire.
Saturday, August 17, 2002
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 10 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $175,000 prize: 2 in Illinois, 3 in Michigan, 4 in New York, and 1 in Ohio. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
