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Lottery officials still waiting for someone to claim jackpot
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 posted 10:49 AM EDT
AUGUSTA -- State lottery officials are still waiting for someone to come forward and claim an $8.45 million Megabucks jackpot.
Employees of D&L Country Store in Oakland last Thursday celebrated the announcement that they had sold the winning ticket.
Selling the winning ticket netted the convenience store owners a $30,000 selling prize, but no one has claimed the Megabucks
jackpot, Maine State Lottery Director Dan Gwadosky said.
"They could come at any point; we don't really know for sure," he said. "Every single person who comes in, we wonder if they
might be the one."
And quite a few people did come into the offices of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations on Monday. By
about 3 p.m., the lottery had awarded $57,000 worth of prizes -- but still no sign of the Megabucks jackpot winner, Gwadosky
said. The focus on larger jackpots tends to eclipse the everyday winnings, he said. Maine awards an average of $2.4 million
each week through lottery winnings. Revenues generated from the Maine State Lottery return around $35 million to the state's
general fund, and that figure is projected to increase to $50 million by 2009, Gwadosky said.
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