Winning online contests and lottery

A Steuben County resident has won $1 million from the Hoosier Lottery playing the scratch-off game $1 Million Solid Gold.

While the pols and pundits mercilessly pounded Arnold Schwarzenegger’s scheme to liquidate California’s bazillion-dollar budget deficit with state lottery lucre, the Governator may have hoped that voters, at least, would buy into his plan.

Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is reaching out to mayors and county judges for support of his proposed lottery amendment, and 31 of them publicly endorsed it Wednesday. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

An Oak Lawn woman has won $1 million from an Illinois Lottery instant ticket she bought and then left in a drawer for months and nearly forgot about.

An Oak Lawn woman has won $1 million from an Illinois Lottery instant ticket she bought and then left in a drawer for months and nearly forgot about. But Patricia Kakos is still working two days a week, helping out around the offices of a tank-cleaning company.

Penn National Gaming would give the state 25 percent of all casino revenue up to $250 million, the Kansas Lottery said Wednesday. Information the lottery released Tuesday incorrectly summarized the revenue distribution in Penn National’s contract. State law requires casino managers to share at least 22 percent of casino revenue with the […]