Winning online contests and lottery

When the games began on April 1, 2006, no one knew quite what to expect. In many ways, they still don’t. The “North Carolina Education Lottery,” enacted when Gov. Mike Easley signed it into law in August 2005, started with a bang.

Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the midday New Jersey State Lottery: Pick 3: 1-2-2 (one, two, two) Straight pays $207.50. Box pays $69. Pair pays $20.50. Pick 4: 6-0-0-1 (six, zero, zero, one) Straight pays $2,121. Box pays $176.50.

Associated Press - March 30, 2008 1:14 PM ET HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The Montana lottery says there were a few winners in Saturday night’s lottery drawings.

ANKARA - A tender for the privatization of Turkey’s national lottery is expected for May or may be June, as major international lottery operators as well as national firms are expressing willingness for the lucrative business, sources have said.

The US state of Oregon is running a lottery which pays out health insurance in a move which seems like a last hope for thousands of low-income families.

A lottery ticket sold in Nova Scotia for last night’s draw fetched almost $4 million. Meanwhile, the first Early Bird draw for the VOCM Cares Canadian Red Cross Live Free for a Year Lottery rook place last night. Roberta Kendell of Ramea was holding lucky number 0782 and walks away with $12 hundred.

The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $135 million Friday.

The winning numbers drawn Saturday night in Idaho’s Powerball lottery, worth about $37.8 million, are 18-20-25-31-36         POWERBALL: 7     The winning numbers in Idaho’s Wild Card lottery, worth about $613,000 are 2-5-12-18-30.