Winning online contests and lottery

A Pontiac woman is one of nine people chosen by the Illinois lottery to try a different way to win money on a popular NBC game show. Vicki Champlain won the chance to go to Los Angeles next week and be on the stage for Deal or No Deal with Howie Mandel.

PREVIEW CLEVELAND LOTTERY LEAGUE What: A show featuring 33 bands composed of 144 musical strangers who were drafted in February to play with one another.

Vermont lawmakers hope to boost state revenues by selling more lottery tickets.

Honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could use lottery funds to attend school under legislation advancing in the Senate.

Here are the winning numbers selected today in the midday New Jersey State Lottery drawing: Pick 3 6-9-1 Straight pays $241. Box pays $40. Pair pays $24. Pick 4 5-4-0-4 Straight pays $3,699.50. Box pays $308.

The state Auditor’s Office today criticized some management practices of the state lottery and said the organization needs to correct the weaknesses uncovered in a performance audit.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Today, State Auditor Leslie Merritt released a performance audit on the North Carolina Education Lottery initiated by a request from the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.

It didn’t take long to find a $1 million winner in the state’s new Red Sox instant lottery.

A Chicopee man who bought an instant lottery ticket in memory of his nephew who recently died of cancer has won $1 million.

A lottery ticket sold at a San Diego supermarket is worth $31 million.