Georgia Lottery News

A twenty-five year old Summerville woman is ecstatic over a recent Georgia Lottery win.

Republicans will be asked five non-binding questions when they vote in the July primary this year.A There will be the much publicized question about limiting gifts from lobbyists to legislators.A Voters will also be asked if active duty military members under the age of 21 should be allowed to obtain a Georgia gun carry permit.A A question designed ... (more)

Katisha Hawkins of Tallahassee, Fla., won a brand new Cadillac playing the instant game Cadillac Riches.

Several southern states appear poised to offer gaming expansion laws to their voters as a way of strengthening tax coffers weakened by the national economy.

Days after their numbers came up, Kenneth and Mary Davis of Dallas are $2 million richer.

A Marietta mother got a Mother's Day surprise from the Georgia Lottery: A $206,502 jackpot in the Fantasy 5 drawing for Sunday.

A Georgia Lottery retailer in Paulding County has sold a Powerball ticket worth $2 million.

ATLANTA - A McDonough woman won the top prize in the Georgia Lottery's Decades of Dollars game, pocketing $250,000 a year for the next 30 years.

South Cobb- Austell, Mableton and even the area near South Cobb Drive- has to be the luckiest place in all of Georgia.

Margaret DeFrancisco, president and CEO of the Georgia Lottery, will speak to the College of Business graduates May 9 at 9 a.m. Spelman College President Beverly Tatum will deliver the commencement address to the College of Education graduates May 10 at 2 p.m. Joseph Bankoff, president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, will speak to ... (more)

Previously in this space, I've argued that the state lottery-funded HOPE collegiate scholarship, hailed as a bold innovative program for improving access to higher education in the state, was also a backhanded admission that our higher education system was so uncompetitive that it took a 100-percent discount on tuition to stem the brain drain to ... (more)

Powder Springs resident Tara Brown won $195,480 in the Georgia Lottery from a Fantasy 5 ticket.

Turns out, coming in second isn't so bad after all. Carmen Burns, from Stone Mountain, won $1 million in the April 28 Powerball drawing, the Georgia Lottery said Tuesday.

Excitement is gaining traction for one Muscogee County man as he anticipates graduation and a brand new sedan courtesy of the Georgia Lottery.

Excitement is gaining traction for one Muscogee County man as he anticipates graduation and a brand new sedan courtesy of the Georgia Lottery.