Winning online contests and lottery

The Iowa Lottery partnered with Darrah’s, the number two selling store in the state for raffle tickets, on Friday to promote a new game called ‘Iowa’s Million Dollar Raffle.’

A Kenosha man was duped out of $25,000, after two men with winning lottery tickets said they needed front money to collect their winnings, a police report says.

The Massachusetts State Lottery is giving players of its numbers game double the chances to win - or lose - money.

The Centre is considering a ban on all kinds of lottery across the country and has convened an inter-ministerial meeting on June 10 to evolve a consensus and formulate a national policy on the issue.

Lottery organisations have been accused of sitting on £1.7 billion of money intended for good causes.

Sometime this weekend, lottery sales for 2008 will hit $1 billion.

QHow much money does the lottery make for the state? Doesn’t that money go for conservation? AIn fiscal year 2007, the lottery generated $112.4 million for state projects and programs, said Marie Hinton with the Minnesota State Lottery in Roseville.

The chairman of the state lottery commission believes the lottery needs discretion in determining pay raises for its employees.

A $24.5 million lottery prize is being disputed by a man in Barrie, Ontario, who says his co-workers denied him his share because he was out of the country.Slawomir Kowalewski, 41, said in a lawsuit he was a regular group player with co-workers at a steel company 70 miles north of Toronto. He said that […]

The Iowa Lottery will be in Council Bluffs to discuss a new game called “Iowa’s Million Dollar Raffle” with members of the media and lottery players. This is the first time the lottery has offered a cash raffle game.