Winning online contests and lottery

Thailand’s Assets Examination Committee (AEC) on Monday filed a criminal lawsuit against deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and 46 other people, including three members of the present government for alleged malfeasance concerning the two- and three-digit lottery.

Regulations / Law   Thailand’s Assets Examination Committee (AEC) on Monday filed a criminal lawsuit against deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and 46 other people, including three members of the present government for alleged malfeasance concerning the two- and three-digit lottery.

Don Kukla of Missoula only bought lottery tickets when the Powerball prize money got up “over $100 million or way up there in the stratosphere.” Now that he’s claimed what was left after taxes from his recently won $200,000 prize, Kukla doesn’t plan to change his game plan.

New lottery games that will generate money for veterans’ programs will debut in July, thanks to a plan drafted by state Rep. McKinley Bailey. The proposal from the Webster City Democrat was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Chet Culver. ‘’I’m just absolutely delighted,’’ Bailey said.

Anyone who has bought a lottery ticket in Arizona within the past year should check their numbers because hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prize money will expire unclaimed within the next couple months.

The Tasmanian Premier has told State Parliament he is prepared to look at intoducing a lottery to help preseve the state’s heritage buildings.

Two $200,000 Powerball prizes and one ‘’jackpot’’ Pick 5 ticket remain unclaimed and will expire within the next 2½ months, according to the Arizona Lottery.

A Kennewick man is out almost $1,000 after sending it to people who told him he’d won the Jamaican lottery.   John Tait says the scammers called him and told him to send money before he could collect his check.  

TRENTON, N.J. - In a March 10 listing of winning lottery numbers, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the New Jersey Lottery’s Pick 6 Lotto drawing would pay $745 to 64 winners who had four out of six winning numbers. The actual payout for the March 10 Pick 6 was $64 to the 745 players […]

An Australia man who unknowingly kept a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000 in a drawer for five years said he was close to putting it through the shredder.