Winning online contests and lottery

A 49-year-old cook, who became a millionaire after winning the lottery on Tuesday, has spent five years on the sex offenders register after he admitted having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

The Massachusetts State Lottery will add a second daily drawing of its popular Numbers Game starting Monday.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Police have charged an Asheville woman with trying to claim $1 million with an altered lottery ticket. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that 39-year-old Michelle Gibson Ryans is charged with obtaining property by false pretense. She was arrested Tuesday night.

The mayor of a suburban Atlanta town can add lottery winner to his resume.

FOUR foreigners, including two women, are behind a lottery scam that has swindled RM50,000 from Batu Pahat folk recently. In all the 20 cases reported, the group employed a similar modus operandi. Elderly folk would be approached at morning markets and bus stations around town.

Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction, Patricia Wood’s novel “Lottery” challenges perceptions. I don’t want to be paraded as an expert,” says Patricia Wood, author of the novel Lottery. “An expert is a mother or father who work day-to-day to understand their kid and to get the world ready to welcome him.” […]

The Massachusetts State Lottery will add a second daily drawing of its popular Numbers Game on June 9.

The state House today adopted an amendment to its budget proposal that would require lottery staff be treated the same as other state employees with regard to pay raises.

The mayor of Lawrenceville can add lottery winner to his resume. According to a Wednesday news release from the Georgia Lottery, Lawrenceville Mayor Rex Millsaps won $250,000 in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing. He matched five of six winning numbers for the second largest prize behind the jackpot. Millsaps says he plans to use the money […]

Call him the mayor of Easy Street. Rex Millsaps, mayor of Lawrenceville, hit the lottery Friday for a quarter million dollars. “I wasn’t playing the lottery,” Millsaps joked Wednesday. “I was supporting the HOPE scholarship.”