Winning online contests and lottery

INDIANAPOLIS - Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the Hoosier Lottery:

An Enterprise woman who plays the Kansas Lottery’s $2 Bonus Crossword game at least every other day has won a large prize. According to a news release from the Kansas Lottery, PJ Stoneberger won the $20,000 prize on the second ticket she purchased Thursday at Kwik Shop, 1401 N. Buckeye.

Special to the Herald Posted: March 14, 2008 5:12 p.m. A Metter granddad is celebrating a half-million dollar Georgia Lottery prize.

The Florida Lottery has made a lot of millionaires - some who don’t even know it.

An Auckland beneficiary who bought a lottery ticket on a whim is more than $5 million better off and hopes to travel into space. The man, who wants to remain anonymous, was on a bike ride when he had a spur-of-the-moment drink stop outside the Westview Superette in Titirangi, NZ Lotteries said.

The father of Shannon Matthews said today he was ‘over the moon’ that his daughter had been found alive. Leon Rose said being reunited with the missing nine-year-old would be like ‘winning the lottery’

The New York Times on Thursday examined the lottery being conducted in Oregon to fill vacant slots in the Oregon Health Plan. The Oregon Health Plan, which is part of the state’s Medicaid program, provides coverage for uninsured people who do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare and cannot afford private insurance.

Charges have been laid in two separate lottery fraud cases, Ontario police said this week. Ontario Provincial Police have charged Sharon Hunwicks, 49, of Toronto with one count of uttering a forged document after an investigation into the winnings of her lottery scratch ticket.

Would-be millionaires leave large Lottery jackpots unclaimed.

The Florida Lottery has made a lot of millionaires — some who don’t even know it.