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• Powerball lottery fever: Top ten ways to spend a Pow...

  Wednesday May 15 | via Examiner.com 

  Temperatures are rising and so is the jackpot for Powerball lottery ! Have you caught the lottery fever yet? Today's drawing, May 15, 2013, could leave you with an estimated $360 million reasons to catch the lottery fever.

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• Lottery winners on welfare stir outrage in Michigan

  Apr 19, 2013 | via MSN Money 

  The idea that people would continue collecting public assistance even after winning a lottery strikes a nerve with many law-abiding taxpayers.

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• More Than 3,500 Michigan Lottery Winners Are Benefit...

  Apr 17, 2013 | via Switched 

  Thousands of lottery winners in one state are benefitting from public assistance, a new government report reveals.

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• House wants lottery players to know game's odds

  Apr 11, 2013 | via WRAL.com 

  The state House on Thursday approved legislation that would require the North Carolina Education Lottery to provide more information to the public about the odds of winning and the present value of jackpots.

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• Single Ticket Wins 4th-Largest Powerball Jackpot

  Mar 25, 2013 | via Hispanic Business 

  A jackpot dream has come true for the lucky owner of one Powerball ticket worth $338.3 million, and lottery officials in New Jersey are holding a news conference today to reveal some details about the matching ticket from Saturday's drawing.

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• Winning $338M Powerball jackpot ticket sold in NJ

  Mar 24, 2013 | via The Charlotte Observer 

  DES MOINES, Iowa A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said.

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• Education Lottery Running Out Of Luck With State

  Mar 13, 2013 | via digtriad.com 

  A legislative committee has agreed to let the North Carolina Education Lottery keep its name for now but wants new advertising restrictions on the games.

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• Powerball ticket worth $1M unclaimed, due to expire ...

  Mar 11, 2013 | via Examiner.com 

  A Powerball ticket worth $1 million remains unclaimed from a drawing last September.

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• $2 million Powerball ticket sold in Raleigh

  Mar 7, 2013 | via WRAL.com 

  Some lucky Food Lion shopper picked up more than just eggs, milk and bread on a recent trip to the Leesville Road store in Raleigh.

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• N.C. lawmakers back lottery name change

  Mar 5, 2013 | via Lottery Post 

  Powerball tickets aren't like parent-teacher bake sales, say state lawmakers who want to take "education" out of the North Carolina Education Lottery.

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