Winning online contests and lottery

The New Mexico Lottery has granted a one-year contract extension to the New Mexico Council on Problem Gambling to provide gaming rehabilitation services around the state.

The winner of a $1 million top prize in the Ohio lottery claimed the prize through a trust, lottery officials said today.

A Queensland man has found a $25,000 winning lottery ticket, more than six years after it was given to him as a gift - and only months before it was to expire.

A Cedar Bluff, Ala., man has won $54,230 in the Georgia Lottery with a Fantasy 5 ticket purchased in Floyd County.According to Kimberly Lundy of the Georgia Lottery:Randy Daniel, 64, matched all five numbers in Tuesday’s drawing: 2, 5, 18, 31 and 39. Daniel, who is retired from Rome’s General Electric plant, bought […]

The situation is unchanged for the Prince Albert Raiders. Following Wednesday’s Western Hockey League draft lottery, the Raiders, who finished with the fifth-worst record this season at 26-41-3-2, are in the same position after their 10 per cent chance to move up failed to materialize.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Senate lottery subcommittee say they support legislation that would use excess lottery funds to allow honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend school.

A lottery to determine which groups will receive permits to use Denver parks around the time of the Democratic National Convention in August is scheduled to take place Thursday.

A “postcode lottery” of treatment for children with speech and language problems must be improved to stop a generation of students facing exclusion from society, Tory MP John Bercow has said.

A lottery ticket worth $185,818 from the latest Mega Millions draw was sold at an Indio pharmacy, California Lottery officials said yesterday.

Members of a Senate lottery subcommittee say they support legislation that would use excess lottery funds to allow honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend school.