N.C. lottery director expects big game by July
RALEIGH, N.C. The director of the North Carolina lottery says that state will likely offer its first lottery games by April 5th and may play in the one of the multistate jackpot lottery games by July. | 12/06/2005 |
Powerball Winner's Granddaughter Died Of Drug Overdose
WINFIELD, W.Va. -- There are felony charges pending against the boyfriend of the granddaughter of the man who won the largest single lottery jackpot in history | 12/05/2005 |
Powerball Jackpot Reaches $87 Million!
POWERBALL, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Powerball jackpot continues to get bigger and bigger. No one hit the grand prize Saturday, but 446,579 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.5 million in prizes in America's Game. | 12/04/2005 |
Man charged with hiding body of lottery winner's granddaughter
WINFIELD, West Virginia (AP) -- The body of a Powerball jackpot winner's 17-year-old granddaughter was hidden under a van for weeks after she died of a drug overdose, police said. | 12/04/2005 |
State, gambling foes argue about California joining Mega Millions
SACRAMENTO - Attorneys for an antigambling group told a judge Friday that the hugely popular Mega Millions lottery game is illegal because it is not run solely by the state, violating the intent of the 1984 voter initiative authorizing California's lottery. | 12/03/2005 |
Jackpot Grows to Estimated $16 Million in Mega Millions
MEGA MILLIONS, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Mega Millions players from coast to coast are feeling the excitement as the jackpot continues to grow. When Friday's winning numbers were drawn, they turned 388,975 tickets into Mega Millions winners, including 2 tickets that each came within one number of hitting the jackpot. Since no ticket matched all six numbers in Friday's drawing, the jackpot grows to an estimated $16 million for the Tuesday, December 6, 2005 drawing. | 12/03/2005 |
N.C. lottery panel sees Tenn. lottery in operation
UNDATED After two months meeting in a spare room in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina lottery commissioners opted for a different view _ a close look at the numbers game in Nashville, Tennessee. | 12/03/2005 |
Local man wins millions in Lotto
Those are the magic numbers for 71-year-old Frederick Baum of Burnt Hills. They netted him a $17 million Lotto prize this past October | 12/03/2005 |
Winners in latest Mega Millions game step forward
SAGINAW (AP) - A pair of window installers from the Saginaw area are five million dollars richer. It's their share from a $35 million Mega Millions jackpot this week. | 12/02/2005 |
Charge for stolen lottery winnings
A 40-year-old Bridgeport woman was charged Tuesday with stealing a woman's lottery ticket winnings at Shaw's Supermarket in Fairfield, police said. | 12/02/2005 |
