2,740 permits were allocated over the weekend in Bethel for this year's moose hunt. That is down 11 percent from last year. Most (90 percent) of the permits went to Maine residents.
Maine wildlife managers are accepting applications to participate in the state's moose hunting lottery. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will accept paper applications until April 1 and online applications until May 14.
Those two winning tickets were sold in Atlanta, and San Jose, California! So I guess I am not the BIG winner, but there is still money to be won. Check those tickets! The winning numbers were.....
Lottery players in Maine and across the nation will be hoping their holiday dreams come true this week as the multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot has reached $400 million!
I’m sure you've heard that tonight's annuitized Powerball jackpot is estimated to be about $425 million. I wasn’t going to buy a ticket, I was going to wait and see if the jackpot ballooned up even higher for Saturday, but I succumbed to the fever of it all.
The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Over the weekend a $2 million Powerball ticket was sold at the Canaan Superette. The winner matched five numbers and turned the $1 million prize into $2 by playing the Power Play option.
Everyone who plays the lottery has their own fantasy of what they'd do first if they won.
Two brothers from Wichita, Kan. celebrated their big lottery win by buying meth and weed, which resulted in them accidentally blowing-up their house and getting arrested...
Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week's record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had.
On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Service.
Lottery winners can take their prize in the form of a lump sum or an annuity paid over the next 29 years...
We'll probably never be this excited, even if Ben & Jerry's comes out with that Jeff Goldblum-themed ice cream we've been dreaming of. This is video of a man who is just realizing he won the massive $587.5 million dollar Powerball Jackpot. Apparently he went around showing everybody because he actually couldn't believe his eyes. The ticket was bought in Arizona, but the video taken is from Mar
I have a big fat loosing Powerball ticket sitting on my desk. Heck, it was fun to dream for a little while about the 'what ifs' of winning $579 million and what great things I could do! I would have been VERY generous with the money if I had won. But every Maine lottery ticket, winner or loser helps Maine’s General Fund. Winning tickets were bought in Arizona and Missouri.
What would you do with $500 million dollars? I just went to fill up the Moose Caboose at the Irving on Western Avenue in Augusta. The sign reads "Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot is $500,000,000" (annuitized). As a game show host would say, “a half billion dollars.”