Winning online contests and lottery

SANTA FE (AP) - A lottery-supported college scholarship program for New Mexico students is back on track to long-term financial stability. A law implemented last year appears to be working as planned and more revenues from New Mexico’s lottery are flowing to the scholarship program.

A Markham, Ont. man has filed a $3.5 billion class action lawsuit against the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) on behalf of addicted gamblers who say not enough was done to keep them out of the province’s casinos.

Small taxi companies told a judge that the city’s plan for a lottery to award permits would give larger companies an unfair advantage.

Maharashtra will host a conference of lottery stakeholders next month to draw up effective and transparent measures to regulate the trade that currently earns the state governments Rs.2.5 billion.

The Colorado Lottery is creating scratch and sniff lottery tickets. Players who don’t win a prize will get a nice smell as the consolation prize.

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 Canton teenager is charged with stealing $17,670 in lottery tickets at the service station where he worked.

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

Report also blames slumping economy for slowdown. 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 legislative report.

REDKEY — Mary Martinez of Redkey won $100,000 on a Hoosier Lottery Cash Crop scratch-off ticket recently, having already won $100 on the game previously.