Winning online contests and lottery

A Connecticut couple shares lottery winnings with its combined 11 children.

Sophie, a Boston terrier from Lapeer, and Lilly, a silky terrier from Linden, are lucky dogs. And they have the lottery tickets to prove it. The two were selected from more than 2,000 photos submitted by Michigan Lottery players to grace tickets for the Michigan Lottery’s instant game “Lucky Dog.”

A proposal to require the state lottery to abandon computerized drawings has been withdrawn for the year.

Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf today announced that after reviewing best and final offers, the department has selected Scientific Games International Inc. to supply terminal-based game services to the Pennsylvania Lottery.

A south Georgia woman will celebrate her birthday with an extra $1 million she won playing the Georgia Lottery’s Millionaire Mania game.

A proposal to require the Tennessee Lottery to abandon computerized drawings has been withdrawn for the year.

SAN MATEO —– A San Mateo resident recently claimed $1.3 million in a Florida Lottery game. Lottery officials identified the winner as 70-year-old Virgil Cowart.

Kenneth Parsons, 59, of Live Oak, is probably still pinching himself this morning, a day after he turned in the winning Mega Money ticket at the Florida Lottery’s Tallahassee headquarters.

A LUCKY Lottery winner who bought a ticket in West Norfolk is £72,840 richer after coming forward to claim the prize. (29/04/2008 16:00:00)

Marion’s new charter school, the Dr. Robert H. Faulkner Academy, reached its enrollment and will have a lottery Thursday to determine what students will be in its third-grade class.