Winning online contests and lottery

A Columbus, Georgia, grandpa is celebrating a $5 million Georgia Lottery win. Prentiss Shumaker, 70, played the instant game Georgia’s $500 Million Club and won $5 million.

Four years ago today, North Dakota launched it’s own lottery.

A Kansas State University freshman wins $10,000 with a Kansas lottery scratch ticket.

There is new discussion on Capitol Hill about the possibility of the state lottery going back to using ping-pong balls.

Historic gardens in Neath are to be restored, after a £1.4m lottery grant is earmarked.

The Dons Trust, the supporters trust which is the majority owner of AFC Wimbledon , is holding a lottery for a place in the AFC Wimbledon squad that will face Corinthian-Casuals in a football match at Wembley Stadium on April 13, 2008.

The largest current unclaimed National Lottery prize - a bumper £6.9 million - must be claimed today or the cash will go to good causes.

Scratch tickets favorite cure for lottery itch? The lottery will celebrate its two-year anniversary Sunday.

The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $113 million today.

A convicted bank robber purchased a lottery ticket, thus violating his probation. The judge ruled, however, that he will get to keep the prize money, a sum of $1,000,000.