Winning online contests and lottery

It’s a busy time of the year for local fire departments. In Somerset County, the Hollsopple Volunteer Fire Company is trying something new: selling lottery tickets that could keep your family warm this winter. INSIDE: Video coverage

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(AP) — Illinois lawmakers are trying to pass a new budget and wrap up their spring session Saturday, but it won’t be easy. They face tough decisions about gambling, privatizing the state lottery and refinancing state debt. Then there’s the question of whether Democratic leaders trust each …

Yahoo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of defendants it alleges tricked consumers into thinking they won a lottery or prize offered by the Internet company.

Here are the winning numbers selected today in the midday New Jersey State Lottery drawing:

A lottery award of nearly £250,000 is given to set up a scheme helping children to play.

Some of the county judges and mayors who were listed as endorsing the proposed lottery amendment aren’t so enthusiastic about it, it turns out. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

The West Virginia Lottery Commission is allowing higher payouts for some video slot machines at racetracks to make them more competitive with those in neighboring states.

WINNING the lottery could be a trauma, pushing a relationship to the edge, an expert warned last night.

FAYETTEVILLE — Springdale Mayor Jerre Van Hoose says his friends and neighbors who regularly go out of state to purchase lottery tickets should have the chance to invest the money they’re spending on scholarships for Arkansas students.