That's not keeping East Texans from trying their luck once again. The next Lotto Texas drawing is Saturday night. Since there were no winners on Wednesday, the jackpot now is an astonishing $145 million. That's the second biggest jackpot in the entire history of single-state lotteries.

The Texas Lottery Wednesday night reported sales of more than 60,000 tickets an hour...which was a welcome income for our local lotto outlets.

East Texas convenience store clerks are recovering from a severe case of lotto fever. One store on the loop in Lufkin made more than $3,000 Wednesday in lottery ticket sales alone. The manager says it'd be a good idea to get tickets for this weekend's drawing, as soon as possible.

Margaret Davenport says, "If you wait til Saturday night, you're gonna stand in line a while. It started from the time they found out it was $120 million...it was just steady."

Some stores in East Texas were selling lottery tickets at a rate of 100 tickets per hour.

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More boats would follow. So would longer hours for the casinos to stay open. Then came dockside gambling. With each step, Indiana raised a little more revenue and made gambling a little more mainstream.

Still, first-year deputies in the lower chamber may be politically motivated stumbling blocks, following in the path of their recalcitrant immediate predecessors.

That evidence included letters, sexy lingerie and a computer disk with Ms. Heatherington's face pasted on photos of a woman performing various sex acts.

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Rescue officials in Fukui prefecture are marvelling at the winner’s generosity, after they received the ticket, worth 990,986 pounds, with a note saying it was intended for the victims of the flood.

Mayor Bob Tarleck said the city isn't waiting to see if Dar Heatherington voluntarily resigns before it applies to court for her removal. A lawyer is "presently engaged in this case," Tarleck said.

The $280 million jackpot is the biggest in the history of the 11-state Mega Millions draw. The winning numbers will be drawn live in Times Square tomorrow night.