Winning online contests and lottery

What would you do if you won the lottery. Would you continue to slog away at your job assembling cars, bagging groceries or writing code. Former Google vice president of engineering Doug Merrill is leaving to join EMI Digital after four years at the Googl

Associated Press - April 1, 2008 7:24 PM ET HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Missoula woman has claimed a $30,000 lottery prize. Karen Abell won the money in the Hot Lotto game on March…

Oregon officials knew demand for new slots in a state-funded health-insurance program would far exceed supply, so they decided to randomly pull names from the nearly 100,000 people who applied. Meet a winner and a loser in Oregon’s health-insurance “lottery.”

EDEN - More than $17,000 in lottery tickets were stolen from an Eden convenience store earlier this month, according to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. (Credit: “From Staff Reports “)

Winning numbers picked Monday night for the California Lottery’s Daily 3 game: 1, 4, 7. Monday afternoon’s Daily 3 numbers: 5, 5, 0.

Most of the time Georgia lottery scratch off tickets yielded small change — $5 or $25. Her biggest win was $2,500. But the ticket Helga Williams bought recently gave her a nice chunk of change — $1 million. The money will paid out over the next 20 years. After taxes, that’s $34,500 a year — […]

Police are looking for $17,000 in stolen lottery tickets and that’s just the face value. If the tickets are winners, a North Carolina Lottery spokeswoman tells 10 On Your Side, there’s no telling how much they’re worth.

The North Carolina Education Lottery says its new daytime numbers drawing is off to a good start.

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Education Lottery says its new daytime numbers drawing is off to a good start. The lottery began a second daily “Carolina Pick 3” on Monday afternoon. The game started in October 2006 with a drawing at night. The game’s top prize is $500.

State lottery officials say they have hit another jackpot with the addition this week of a second Carolina Pick 3 drawing each day.