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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Washington, D.C., 1 from Kentucky, 1 from Minnesota and 1 from South Carolina. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
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Powerball: The Saturday, July 30, 2005 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 8-14-35-38-46, and the Powerball is 24. The Power Play number is 5. 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!
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday Mega Millions drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from Georgia, 2 from New York, and 1 from Texas. 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.
Friday, July 29, 2005
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Florida Lottery will not honor misprint scratch-off jackpot. The Florida Lottery has refused to pay the winner of a $250,000 scratch off jackpot, saying that the winning ticket was a printing error.
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Mega Millions: The Friday, July 29, 2005 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 4-16-23-25-40, and the Mega Ball is 22. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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Hoosier Lottery insists computers are better than ball drawings. Still smarting from the sting of a massive security scandal, Indiana Lottery officials are making a claim that computerized drawings actually improve security over traditional lottery drawings conducted with a mechanical ball machine.
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Hoosier Lottery increases funds for security. For months, Indiana Lottery officials have been trying to repair the damage done when William C. Foreman, a former lottery investigator, was accused in November of obtaining insider information to help friends get a $1 million scratch-off ticket.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
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N.M. Lottery posts second-best year. New Mexico legislators were told today that strong sales of in-state games helped drive the New Mexico Lottery to its second-best year of sales.
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Pennsylvania lottery machines knocked out by lightning. A lightning strike at a control center put more than two-thirds of the terminals selling Pennsylvania lottery tickets out of commission for almost four hours Wednesday evening, which officials said would certainly mean reduced sales.
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Schwarzenegger to replace Calif. lottery director. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's aides said Tuesday that he is dumping troubleshooter Chon Gutierrez, the acting lottery director who engineered California's participation with the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game, and then sent an adviser to spy on Democrats who are trying to halt ticket sales.
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Lottery scores triple-zeros twice in one day. Missouri Lottery players with an affinity for the number zero won big Wednesday, when the winning Pick 3 numbers in both the afternoon and evening drawings were 0-0-0.
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 6 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Indiana, 1 from New Hampshire (1 with Power Play), 1 from Pennsylvania, 2 from South Carolina (2 with Power Play) and 1 from Tennessee. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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Powerball: The Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 1-4-10-13-29, and the Powerball is 3. The Power Play number is 5. 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!
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Disabled players sue Virginia Lottery. Four disabled Virginians filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Virginia Lottery for allowing non-handicap-accessible businesses to sell tickets.
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Indiana man claims $10.5 million Hoosier Lottery jackpot. A LaPorte man who for three days kept secret that he held the winning ticket for a $10.5 million Hoosier Lottery jackpot claimed the prize on Tuesday.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday Mega Millions drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from Michigan, 1 from New York and 1 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.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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Mega Millions: The Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 1-10-18-29-55, and the Mega Ball is 8. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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Powerball sales skid hurts lottery profits. Powerball players got lucky during the past 12 months, winning lots of smaller multistate jackpots but dampening overall enthusiasm by reducing the number of huge payoffs in the $200 million to $300 million range.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
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Texas Lottery critic turns down selection committee post. Dawn Nettles, a frequent critic of the Texas Lottery, was appointed to, and later withdrew from, a search committee for the Texas Lottery Director position.
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Follow-Up: Couple’s lottery 5-week winning streak was simple luck. Investigators with the Wisconsin Department of Revenue found no signs of fraud in a couple's five-week winning streak in March and April.
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Iowa, 1 from Kansas, 1 from Missouri and 1 from New Mexico. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
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Powerball: The Saturday, July 23, 2005 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 13-16-20-28-32, and the Powerball is 36. The Power Play number is 5. 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!
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Ohio man shows reporter $170 million winning lottery ticket. A group of six Ohio machine shop co-workers is the apparent winner of the Friday night $170 million Mega Millions lottery drawing.
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Mega Millions Jackpot Winner! There was one $170 million jackpot winner from Ohio in the Friday, July 22, 2005 Mega Millions drawing. More details to follow after the winner comes forward to claim their prize.
Also, 13 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from Georgia, 2 from Massachusetts, 3 from New Jersey, 3 from Ohio, and 3 from New York. 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.
Friday, July 22, 2005
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Mega Millions: The Friday, July 22, 2005 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 7-18-27-35-54, and the Mega Ball is 34. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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$170M Mega Millions jackpot has Calif. Lottery officials scrambling. Less than a month into Mega Millions sales, California Lottery officials find themselves scrambling to market a life-altering jackpot, instead of merely educating people about the game as they had planned.
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S.C. Lottery officials continue to investigate drawing error. South Carolina Lottery officials say it will be several months before the financial impact is clear from an error made in a Palmetto Cash Five drawing last month.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Washington, D.C., 1 from Iowa, 1 from Nebraska, 1 from New Mexico, 1 from North Dakota (1 with Power Play), 2 from South Carolina, 1 from West Virginia and 1 from Wisconsin. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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Massachusetts lottery ticket recycling program successful. A program for recycling non-winning lottery tickets is paying off big for Westboro, Mass.-based recycler E.L. Harvey & Sons and the Massachusetts State Lottery.
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Washington woman, down on her luck, wins lottery jackpot. Hoping to cheer herself up from life's problems, a Washington woman bought a Lotto ticket that turned out to be a $2.6 million winner.
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Former Texas Lottery employee indicted in scam. A former employee of the Texas Lottery Commission has been indicted for allegedly defrauding retailers who applied to become Texas Lottery vendors.
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Spain detains 295 people in lottery scam. Spanish police have detained 295 West Africans on charges of attempting to swindle money from thousands of people by claiming they had won in a Nigerian lottery, radio reports said on Wednesday.
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N.D. couple cashes state's first lottery jackpot ticket. A Walsh County couple cashed North Dakota's first lottery jackpot ticket, a $420,094 prize in the Wild Card 2 game, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said.
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Georgia lottery players take 'Mega Road Trip'. Eleven lucky Georgia Lottery players boarded a flight on Monday to travel from the Peach State to the Golden State with the Georgia Lottery's Mega Road Trip promotion.
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Judge rules lottery cash split properly. A judge in Memphis, Tennessee has ruled in favor of a Memphis man in a dispute with his wife over a lottery jackpot.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday Mega Millions drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from Georgia, 1 from Maryland, 5 from New York, 1 from Ohio and 1 from Texas. 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.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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Mega Millions: The Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 7-13-48-51-54, and the Mega Ball is 11. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
Sunday, July 17, 2005
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Connecticut Gov. considers dumping Powerball. Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell thinks Powerball, the multi-state lottery game that offers huge potential payoffs, is about to become a lousy bet, and has asked the lottery to consider pulling out of the game.
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 6 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Connecticut, 1 from Indiana, 1 from Kentucky, 2 from Missouri and 1 from Oregon. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
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North Dakota has its first lottery jackpot winner. North Dakota lottery officials said Thursday that Wednesday's winning Wild Card 2 jackpot ticket was sold at the Amoco station in Michigan, in eastern North Dakota. The prize is $420,000.
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Texas Lottery paid for goods it never received. The embattled Texas Lottery Commission is investigating why the agency paid a Nevada company more than $300,000 for goods it hasn't received.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday Mega Millions drawing, but 11 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from California, 2 from New Jersey, 4 from New York, 1 from Ohio and 3 from Texas. 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.
Friday, July 15, 2005
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Mega Millions: The Friday, July 15, 2005 drawing has taken place, and the results are 9-13-25-36-48, and the Mega Ball is 2. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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Reporter investigates Internet lottery scam. On receipt of an e-mail from an Internet scam outfit, the Editor of Expatica Netherlands wasted no time in ringing up to collect the promised $1 million jackpot prize.
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Kentucky couple almost threw out the lottery jackpot. A Kuntucky couple literally threw away their jackpot-winning Lotto South lottery ticket, and rescued it just in time.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Iowa, 1 from Louisiana, 2 from Missouri and 1 from Tennessee. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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Powerball: The Wednesday, July 13, 2005 drawing has taken place, and the results are 4-5-13-23-43, and the Powerball is 34. The Power Play number is 4. 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!
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Lottery Ticket Sold in Virginia Beach Worth $175,000 Expires Thursday. A winning Mega Million Lottery Ticket worth $175,000 is set to expire at 5:00pm Thursday unless the lucky owner comes forward to claim his or her prize.
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Federal Workers Share $10M Powerball Lottery Jackpot. A group of federal disaster workers, used to helping others facing misfortune, are instead basking in their own good fortune as they get ready to claim a $10 million Powerball jackpot, officials said Wednesday.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday Mega Millions drawing, but 8 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 3 from California, 2 from Georgia, 1 from Illinois and 2 from New York. 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.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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Tenn's Paul to be honored by lottery industry. Tennessee lottery president Rebecca Paul was inducted into the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame Tuesday.
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Mega Millions: The Tuesday, July 12, 2005 drawing has taken place, and the results are 5-17-32-39-53, and the Mega Ball is 36. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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Texas Lottery looking at all possibilities for Director Position. In a gesture of openness, Texas Lottery commissioners announced Monday that, for the first time, a committee of state officials and private citizens outside the lottery will help find the agency's next leader.
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Power failure shuts down Wisconsin lottery sales. A computer system outage prevented Wisconsin lottery players from purchasing tickets or validating winning tickets for such games as Powerball or Pick 3 for about three hours, a state Department of Revenue spokeswoman says.
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Calif. Lottery uses trick as Dems continue undermining Mega Millions. The California Lottery admitted Monday they used a state official, who misrepresented herself as a freelance reporter, as an operative in the legal battle over constitutionality of the multistate Mega Millions game in California.
Monday, July 11, 2005
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Texas Lottery Names Acting Director. A top official closely involved in an investigation into inflated Lotto Texas jackpot advertisements was named acting executive director of the lottery commission today.
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Texas Lottery changes won't come quickly. Lottery players who feel hoodwinked by the Texas Lottery Commission will have to wait another month before the agency changes rules that determine how much money Lotto Texas winners are paid.
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More Texas Lottery trouble: Auditor's warning erased from report. Texas Lottery executives were warned in a draft audit last winter that their decision to gut the agency's security force and fire most of its officers threatened the lottery's security and integrity, but lottery officials never disclosed those findings publicly.
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Unclaimed lottery prizes fund Tennessee school programs. $2 million in unclaimed Tennessee Lottery prizes will help provide tutoring, teach computer literacy, offer sports, and help students in danger of failing gain the reading and math skills they need.
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Indiana lottery sales decline has officials probing illegal games. In the budget year just ended, lottery officials expect to see about a 5 percent decline in profits, causing officials to question whether illegal electronic gaming machines are to blame.
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Washington Lottery has its first Lucky for Life winner. Rauf Nayemi, a 40 year-old immigrant from Afghanistan, is the first winner of Washington Lottery's "Lucky for Life" since the game was changed from a drawing to scratch tickets on April 27.
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Judge Rejects Men's Claim To $100K Lottery Prize. An administrative law judge has rejected a claim by two Indiana men that they were the rightful owners of a $100,000 lottery ticket someone else retrieved from a restaurant trash can.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Minnesota, 1 from Missouri and 1 from West Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Saturday, July 9, 2005
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Texas Lottery Director Resigns Over Jackpot Scandal. The executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission resigned Friday, two weeks after admitting he had approved advertising Lotto Texas jackpots that were higher than ticket sales could support.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday Mega Millions drawing, but 9 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from California, 1 from Illinois, 1 from Maryland, 5 from New York and 1 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.
Friday, July 8, 2005
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Mega Millions: The Friday, July 08, 2005 drawing has taken place, and the results are 9-23-45-48-50, and the Mega Ball is 3. To see all the ways your ticket can win a prize, please go to the Ways To Win Mega Millions page, or you can use the Mega Millions 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!
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Texas Gov. expects panel to correct lottery problems. Texas Gov. Rick Perry expects the three-member panel that oversees the Texas lottery to "get that agency straightened out" during next week's closed-door meeting on whether to replace the top executives, the governor's spokesman said Thursday.
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Calif. Democrat criticizes lottery's 'weak case'. A California Democrat Senator is claiming that the California Lottery should not be selling Mega Millions lottery tickets, and that the lottery will be forced to shut down the game due to their 'fairly weak case'.
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Deceased lottery winner's kids finally get their inheritance. The children of an illiterate Massachusetts man who became an overnight lottery millionaire will get to share in their inheritance, thanks to a judge who has seen to it their high-rolling cousin's luck has run out.
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Oregon to add gaming machines at horse track. In a move that supporters say will help save horse racing in the state, the Oregon House approved a bill that would expand the number of slot and video-poker machines at Portland Meadows.
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Internet lottery game not popular with Kansas players. The lack of success by the Kansas eScratch lottery game illustrates that lottery players do not want a game to be played on the Internet just for the sake of being an online game.
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Texas lottery director stands firm amid attacks. Reagan Greer, the Texas Lottery Commission's embattled executive director who signed off on four inflated Lotto jackpots, shows no sign he will cave in to pressure and resign.
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Clever lottery players all win on handshake agreement. In a classic case of "a bird in the hand," four of the five finalists competing in a $2 million Michigan lottery drawing decided to hedge their bets by agreeing to split the winnings no matter whose ticket was drawn.
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Anti-lottery group sues to end Mega Millions in California. The California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking an injunction to shut down the state's two-week-old Mega Millions multistate lotto.
Thursday, July 7, 2005
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday Powerball drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Colorado, 1 from Connecticut, 1 from Kentucky, 1 from Minnesota and 1 from Tennessee. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
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Texas lottery panel will consider dismissing director. The three-person panel that oversees the Texas Lottery Commission will meet behind closed doors Monday to decide whether the agency's executive director should be fired for inflating the advertised jackpots for the popular Lotto Texas game.
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NJ House rejectes lottery appropriation for teachers. The New Jersey House of Representatives rejected yesterday the Senate amendment to appropriate $33,000 in unclaimed lottery funds to full-time Public School System teachers.
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Powerball lottery creator patents new games. The co-creator of the Powerball lottery game has patented an international jackpot game and a new lotto game that could some day be played in the United States.
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday Mega Millions drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 2 from California and 1 from New Jersey. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Sunday, July 3, 2005
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Powerball: There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday Powerball drawing, but 4 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $100,000 prize: 1 from Arizona, 1 from Idaho, 1 from Minnesota and 1 from West Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
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Texas Lottery chief may lose job over jackpot snafu. The Texas Lottery Commission's executive director may lose his job and six other employees may be reassigned following revelations that the agency inflated jackpot estimates, according to a posted agenda.
Saturday, July 2, 2005
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Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Friday Mega Millions drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 1 from Georgia, 1 from Massachusetts and 1 from New York. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Ways to Win page.
Friday, July 1, 2005
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Man sues Mass. Lottery for $1 million prize mistake. A Rhode Island man filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit this week against the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission and State Treasurer Tim Cahill seeking the $1 million he was denied because of his purported misinterpretation of how the prizes are awarded.
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North Carolina Still Working To Establish Lottery. North Carolinians continue to argue over the positive and negative effects of a lottery.
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All Kentucky lottery money to fund education. Finally fulfilling the promise made 17 years ago to voters who approved a state lottery, all of the Kentucky Lottery's revenue will go directly to education beginning today — specifically to fund college scholarships.
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Texas Lottery executive had no hint before firing. Weighing his words carefully when asked if he was the fall guy in the growing scandal over inflated Texas Lotto jackpots, Lee Deviney said only that his dismissal last month from the Texas Lottery Commission came with no prior warning.
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Texas Lottery chief could face punishment for inflated jackpots. The Texas Lottery Commission chairman laid blame for inflated lottery jackpots squarely on the agency's chief Wednesday, hinting to state lawmakers that executive director Reagan Greer could be punished.
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Georgia lottery bill would protect education funds. Ralph Reed, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, on Thursday endorsed Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's call for a state constitutional amendment that would prevent lottery money from being used for anything except HOPE college scholarships, pre-kindergarten classes and building up financial reserves.
