Winning online contests and lottery

Winning the big one hasn’t come easy around Philadelphia. Not in major-league sports. Not in lotteries, either. No one from Philadelphia or its neighboring counties has ever won a windfall a fourth as large as tomorrow’s $275 million Powerball prize.

Someone could strike it big today as the jackpot for the multistate Powerball lottery climbs. None of the tickets sold in Wednesday’s drawing matched the numbers, meaning today’s drawing will have a prize estimated at 275 million dollars. That would

March 15, 2008.

RALEIGH — Parents and students hope walking into a lottery held by Raleigh Charter High School is the first step into a brighter future. Parent Emma Oritsejafor is one of them; she was the first to arrive and wants her youngest son to get accepted.

The winning numbers in Saturday’s main lottery draw were 2, 23, 37, 40, 48, 49, with the bonus number 29.

The National Lotteries Board (NLB) launched the New Airport lottery to raise funds to construct the Weerawila airport. The NLB introduced lotteries such as Mahajana Sampatha, Govi Setha, Sewana and Jayawiru to support livelihood development projects since it was set up in 1963.

Jason DeRusha answers some of your questions about the Powerball and Minnesota State Lottery.

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