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A lottery for those bored by mini millionsNews Story
Come Friday, California residents will no longer have to endure wimpy, yawn-producing California SuperLotto Plus jackpots that start at $7 million.State residents soon will be able to plunk down a dollar for a shot at the kind of winnings that could put them into the San Diego housing market.The state has joined the multistate lottery game Mega Millions. Tickets go on sale Wednesday for the first drawing, which is Friday.And look out.Mega Millions produced the nation's largest jackpot $363 mil
Jun 20, 2005, 2:51 pm - Lottery News

Democrats trying to ruin Calif. Mega Millions lottery participationNews Story
Democrat lawmakers in California will convene an emergency hearing on what their attorneys call Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's illegal linking of California with the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game.Republicans say this is the latest Democrat obstruction, as the Governor continues his bid to rescue California from its fiscal and electoral problems.National and state anti-gambling groups said they would delay filing a lawsuit against Schwarzenegger's deficit-easing entrance into Me
Jun 17, 2005, 11:09 am - Lottery News

$220M lottery winner wants to be billionaireNews Story
A man who won a $220.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot - the second-largest single-ticket Powerball winning - plans to invest the money and become a billionaire.Brad Duke, 33, a regional fitness director for a health-club chain, said he hopes to build a $1 billion portfolio within 15 years. What better opportunity to have than me at my age with this money to build a billion-dollar empire to take care of my family and to give opportunities to the people who have given me opportunities, he said
Jun 17, 2005, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Investment banker cashes in $9.3 million winning Oregon lottery ticketNews Story
A Seattle investment banker who wants to keep working in spite of his good fortune has cashed the winning $9.3 million Lotto jackpot ticket for Saturday night's drawing.The prize was the largest jackpot since Washington's Lottery switched from Lotto Plus back to classic Lotto in October of 2003.Peter Kerr, who works for UBS Financial Services, Inc., of Seattle, selected the cash option for his winnings, providing him with half the jackpot amount, $4.65 million. His wife, Cynthia Wells, was at hi
Jun 15, 2005, 1:09 pm - Lottery News

California could be golden for 12-state Mega MillionsNews Story
At Bluebird Liquors in Hawthorne, California, where there's almost always a line to buy lottery tickets, owner Frank Kumamoto is eagerly awaiting California's entry into the multistate Mega Millions game. So are his regular customers. Oh, yeah, I'll play, because there's a bigger jackpot and more to win, said Barbara Fluffy Brown, a Boeing worker who drove from nearby Los Angeles to play the numbers here. It's only a dollar, so what the heck? A week from Wednesday, California will become the
Jun 15, 2005, 12:33 pm - Lottery News

Lawyer thinks Calif. participation in Mega Millions is illegalNews Story
According to one legislative lawyer, California's much-heralded entrance into the 11-state Mega Millions lottery may be illegal, even as outlets around the state prepare for the debut of the popular game.Lottery Director Chon Gutierrez was told by legal advisers when California joined Mega Millions that the move to revitalize the state's languishing lottery was legal because it advanced the education-benefiting cause of the voter-approved Lottery Act of 1984.Around the state, locations for buyin
Jun 15, 2005, 11:33 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions to change lottery game's game and prize structureNews Story
Updated: April 30, 2005, 8:10 amFirst drawing of new game set for June 24When California becomes the 12th state in which the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game is played, players across the country will see changes that will make it even more exciting.The addition of California as a Mega Millions state adds 35.9 million people to the population of Mega Millions states, which increases the 12-state game total to 155.1 million, an increase of 30%.Californians are expected to be as enthusiastic
Apr 29, 2005, 7:12 pm - Lottery News

Winners of $208 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot step forwardNews Story
Ralph and Mary Stebbins of Port Huron, Michgan have always wanted to travel, so they're using part of their third-largest-ever Mega Millions jackpot to buy a recreational vehicle.And then there's the cow.While mulling their options after winning the $208 million jackpot, Mary Stebbins mentioned her wish. She said, I want to buy a cow.' She just wants to buy a cow -- a show cow, said Bob Kolt, a media specialist from Okemos representing the family.Ralph Stebbins' wish list includes a garage to
Apr 29, 2005, 6:42 pm - Lottery News

$1.2 million Washington lottery jackpot goes unclaimedNews Story
Oh, what might have been. ...Would-be millionaires searched for stray Washington Lotto tickets in hopes that one held the winning combination for a $1.2 million jackpot that had to be claimed by 5 p.m. yesterday. As far as we know, it hasn't been redeemed yet, said Nick Waldbillig, night manager of the Bremerton Safeway where the ticket was bought Oct. 27. There has been a lot of buzz around it, though. Everybody who regularly buys tickets here, they all claim it's theirs. The $1.2 million jac
Apr 26, 2005, 12:48 pm - Lottery News

Lotteries may gamble on InternetNews Story
Several states are considering selling lottery tickets on the Internet, a change that could usher in a new era in how such tickets are purchased.Online lottery sales would be limited to residents within the state. But Internet lottery sales are expected to spread quickly to other states if the practice proves popular, advocates of the idea say. Every state is looking at it, says Georgia state Rep. Terry Barnard, a Republican whose bill authorizing Internet sales passed the Georgia House of Repr
Apr 22, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News