Winning online contests and lottery

The boss of a charity lottery has been jailed for pocketing thousands of pounds and taking his family on the dream holiday which was supposed to be the star prize.

The boss of a charity lottery has been jailed for pocketing thousands of pounds and taking his family on the dream holiday which was supposed to be the star prize. Millionaire Leigh Windsor, aged 46, stole £273,000 from two air ambulance charities and picked phantom winners from the phone book after fiddling the draws

The Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a lottery on April 28 to award six commercial sea urchin permits.

RAMAPO - Three people today ripped off a man through a lottery scam, police said.

Talk about luck. Herbert Marsh of High Point won $200,000 the first time he played the lottery. (Credit: “From Staff Reports”)

The National Hockey League will hold its draft lottery at 7 tonight in New York. The Blues tied with the New York Islanders for the fourth-lowest point total (79) in the league this season, but the Islanders had two more victories (35-33). So …

With Seattle’s surprising 151-147 Sunday night victory over Denver, the Heat could wrap up the top seed in the NBA Draft lottery as soon as Tuesday.

Some members of the D.C. Council are questioning a proposal that would put the District’s lottery games under new management.

ATLANTA — The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery is growing to to $17 million for Tuesday’s drawing. None of the tickets sold for Friday’s $12 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.

By JOHN MORITZ Texans could buy lottery tickets at the checkout lines in supermarkets and big-box department stores, at coffee shops and cabarets. They could pay with credit cards or personal checks and play online or the old-fashioned way with a ticket that’s also a tiny ad for anything from soft drinks to sporting […]