TAMPA - Of the dozen tickets drawn Saturday to determine the biggest winners of the Florida Lottery Holiday Millionaire Raffle, one-third were sold in the Tampa Bay area, state officials announced. ...more

January 2, 2008

Of the dozen tickets drawn Saturday to determine the biggest winners of the Florida Lottery Holiday Millionaire Raffle, one-third were sold in the Tampa Bay area, state officials announced. ...more

December 30, 2007

TAMPA - Of the dozen tickets drawn Saturday to determine the biggest winners of the Florida Lottery Holiday Millionaire Raffle, one-third were sold in the Tampa Bay area, state officials announced. ...more

December 29, 2007

Someone got lucky in Hillsborough County on Monday when a winning Fantasy 5 lottery ticket worth more than $225,000 was sold in Sun City Center, the Florida Lottery announced Tuesday. ...more

December 12, 2007

What if that toll road you often drive on business or vacation was privately owned? How about your state lottery being leased by investors from another state? Would tolls skyrocket? Would you trust the integrity of the lottery? All of these things could happen if the state decides to privatize some of its holdings to make big bucks. It sounds like a bad idea. Gov. Charlie Crist is listening to private investors who want to lease items like the Florida Lottery and toll roads, such as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, for huge chunks of change. In return for their billions of dollars, they would have the ability to market these things, and possibly raise prices, for decades to come. With Florida's $1.1 billion budget deficit, state leaders are listening to investors who might pay upward of $31 billion for the lottery system. According to an article in The Tampa Tribune, investors would then get something like a 40-year lease of the proceeds. ...more

September 28, 2007

TAMPA - The Florida Lottery announced today that one Tampa player matched all six numbers in Saturday's Lotto drawing and will win an estimated $6 million jackpot. ...more

September 23, 2007

SEBRING — Highlands County has a brand-new instant millionaire. ...more

August 9, 2007