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Weekly $15 Service Fee Surprises Some Tennessee Lottery VendorsNews Story
A small group of Tennessee Lottery retailers were not informed they'd have to pay a weekly $15 service charge, and some in Knox County aren't happy about it. It was never mentioned up front, said Steve Rogers, owner of the Phillips 66 station on Tazewell Pike, which is among stores paying the charge because they sell less than $10,000 per week in lottery tickets. If I did business like that with my customers, I wouldn't stay in business long. Rogers said he went to a lottery machine training se
Feb 20, 2004, 6:38 am - Lottery News

Storeowners Receive Share Of Lottery JackpotNews Story
Portion Of Winnings Will Help Hindu Temple RebuildThe winners of last week's $85 million Powerball jackpot have yet to come forward, but the storeowners who sold the ticket received their share of the pot Tuesday.Dipak and Rita Patel, the owners of Gary's Beverage Barn, are $30,000 richer, thanks to the person who bought the winning ticket on Super Bowl Sunday. I have no idea who bought the ticket, Dipak Patel said. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and there was heavy traffic on that day. The Patels
Feb 11, 2004, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Convenience store's lucky streak continuesNews Story
A convenience store where three winning lottery tickets were sold in less than six months is credited with the sale that netted the latest $70 million Lotto Texas jackpot.A clerk at an independent Corner Stop said he learned Sunday morning that the winning Lotto ticket was sold at Javed Panjwani's store.Panjwani had spent Friday afternoon hanging certificates from two winning Cash 5 lottery tickets he sold last year at the southwest Houston convenience store. He stood back, admired his work and
Feb 2, 2004, 5:06 am - Lottery News

Powerball payday comes for shop ownerNews Story
Officials from the S.C. Education Lottery made their way to Clover Shop Save on Thursday with a $50,000 check the store on U.S. 321 earned for its part in selling a winning Powerball ticket.A Concord, N.C., resident won half of a $221.5 million lottery jackpot on New Year's Eve. Norman Shue bought 20 tickets Dec. 31, about 12 hours before the drawing, in what turned out to be the fifth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.The other winning ticket was sold in York, Pa.State lottery director Ernie Pas
Jan 23, 2004, 8:55 am - Lottery News

Tennessee businesses banking on lotteryNews Story
For years, Tony Kim watched as customers looking to buy gas, snacks or cigarettes bypassed his store here and crossed the state line into Kentucky in search of one thing: lottery tickets.Beginning Tuesday, Kim hopes to draw that business back to his Favorite Xpress BP store when Tennessee launches its own lottery a venture almost 20 years in the making. We have to join the game everybody's doing it, said Kim, who with several partners, owns three other convenience stores in Clarksville and five
Jan 17, 2004, 2:50 pm - Lottery News

Mega Millions seller not on record as store's ownerNews Story
The Ohio Lottery says a man who accepted a symbolic check as the co-owner of a South Euclid convenience store that sold a winning Mega Millions ticket isn't the owner.The Ohio Lottery had made a presentation to Jagdish Shah at Quick Shop Food Mart on January 2.The store sold the winning ticket for the $162 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot, which earned the owner $100,000 and a cruise.Lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen said Thursday that Shah identified himself that day as an owner. But she sa
Jan 16, 2004, 5:51 am - Lottery News

Tenn. merchants worry training for lottery machines insufficientNews Story
Lottery tickets go on sale in Tennessee in five days, and several merchants are concerned the Tennessee lottery board is doing too little to teach retailers how to use the ticket-generating equipment.All lottery machinery has a training mode, but retailers have gotten mixed messages on when they will be able to use these screens to teach their employees about the equipment.Steve Edwards, owner of Countryside Market on U.S. Highway 411 South in Maryville, said he was told he wouldn't be able to
Jan 15, 2004, 5:24 am - Lottery News

Lotto ManiaNews Story
Store owners along state line hope Alabamians bring greater success to Tennessee lotteryConvenience store owners operating in Tennessee near the Alabama state line cashed in for decades on Colbert and Lauderdale residents who had nowhere else to turn to quench their thirst for an alcoholic beverage.A week from today, convenience store owners along the Alabama-Tennessee state line will try to again cash in on Alabamians' thirst.This time, that thirst has nothing to do with alcoholic beverages, si
Jan 13, 2004, 5:17 am - Lottery News

New lotto game hurts PowerballNews Story
Cobos Supermarket Assistant Manager Elizabeth Torres would like to attribute the slow Powerball-buying traffic in her Sunland Park store to the holidays, but she knows that across the state line a larger reason loomed. It's the Mega Millions. Their jackpot is pretty big, and people aren't coming from Texas as much, she said. We haven't seen the number of people that we normally see when the Powerball gets to this size. Tonight's Powerball jackpot, for which tickets are sold in New Mexico, is e
Dec 31, 2003, 7:35 am - Lottery News

Lottery frenzy makes Rosenberg store a winnerNews Story
A corner convenience store in Rosenberg, Texas that reigns as the lottery-selling champion in the Houston area was buzzing Tuesday, selling tickets to eager customers hoping to claim the biggest prize in the Mega Millions drawing since Texas joined the multistate lottery.A steady stream of traffic trying to cash in on the $155 million jackpot pulled in and out of Rudy's Stop Shop, at FM 1640 and Damon, a brown brick facade with a small lot of only half a dozen parking spaces.A line of regular
Dec 31, 2003, 7:19 am - Lottery News