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© St. Petersburg Times, published April 14, 2002
Jackpot rolls over to $300-million
ATLANTA -- The jackpot for Tuesday night's Big Game drawing is now $300-million because Friday night's drawing failed to produce a winning ticket, lottery officials said.
The $220-million jackpot was one of the largest prizes in American lottery history. The $300-million jackpot will be the second-largest in Big Game history. The biggest, a U.S. record, was $363-million, split by two winners in May 2000.
The Big Game is played in Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia.
AT&T: After more than a month of negotiations, AT&T and two unions representing nearly 30,000 workers said Saturday they had reached a tentative agreement on a new 18-month contract.
It includes a 6 percent wage increase over the 18 months, an 8 percent pension increase and 5.5 percent interest payments on cash balance retirement accounts.
The deal would cover 27,000 members of the Communications Workers of America -- network and communications technicians, customer service representatives and operators -- and 900 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, mostly operators who handle keyboard messages for the speech- and hearing-impaired.
L.A. SCHOOL BUSES: Teamsters negotiators for striking Los Angeles school bus drivers said Saturday they support a proposed contract that would end the walkout. The strike, which began April 2, has meant delays for 20,000 students and forced the cancellations of sporting events and field trips.
TREE PROTESTER FALLS, DIES: A tree sitter in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest fell 150 feet to the ground, was badly injured and died before rescue crews could reach the remote site Friday. The timber sale that Beth O'Brien, 22, of Portland was apparently protesting had been canceled three days before her death, and the protesters expected to leave the area within a week.