Winning online contests and lottery

Texas Lottery sales are down $49 million this year. Although those creative folks who dream up scratch-off games may be scratching their own heads, trying to figure out what happened to those customers, local merchants say it’s a combination of factors.

Jupiter police are looking for a man and woman who allegedly defrauded a Jupiter woman in a lottery scam.

National Lottery operator Camelot is moving to a new hosted datacentre as part of plans to improve communications for its next 10-year licence. The company is preparing a transition plan for the next stage of its delivery of the lottery, which commences in February 2009.

    Parents of four-year-olds will have more choices next fall thanks to the state education department awarding Southeast Bulloch High School and Mattie Lively Elementary School lottery-funded prekindergarten classes.     This brings the total of prekindergarten classes in the county to 13, said Dr. Marilyn Dryden, director of early care and learning for Bulloch County […]

The Virginia Lottery has taken in millions of dollars illegally by misrepresenting the prize money available for its “Scratcher” games, a Washington & Lee University business professor asserted Monday. Scott Hoover contends that the lottery has not ordered retailers to pull shipments of tickets from Scratcher games after the top prizes have been awarded, meaning […]

The Virginia Lottery has taken in millions of dollars illegally by misrepresenting the prize money available for its “Scratcher” games, a Washington & Lee University business professor asserted Monday. Scott Hoover contends that the lottery has not ordered retailers to pull shipments of tickets from Scratcher games after the top prizes have been awarded, meaning […]

Woodstock Police arrested a Towne Lake service station employee for allegedly helping himself to Georgia Lottery tickets while he was working.

Slot-machine gambling appears to be hurting lottery ticket sales the most in areas near casinos, although gambling alone cannot be blamed for a slowdown in Pennsylvania Lottery sales statewide, according to a new legislative report.

A new legislative analysis says it appears slot-machine gambling is hurting the sales of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets the most in areas near the casinos.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Lottery has taken in millions of dollars illegally by misrepresenting the prize money available for its “Scratcher” games, a Washington & Lee University business professor asserted Monday.