Winning online contests and lottery

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Out of nowhere, Greg Thibault received a letter this week telling him he had won more than $250,000 through an online lottery he had not entered.

Five San Bernardino County residents were among those arrested this week in lottery sting operations at Southern California stores. The suspects are accused of pocketing money from prize-winning tickets turned in by undercover agents with the California Lottery.

Undercover agents rooted out a handful of people in San Bernardino County this week suspected of scamming convenience- store customers out of lottery winnings, authorities said.

Pasco County sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help in their investigation of a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket box theft at a Sweetbay Supermarket.

No one quite understands the term “striking it lucky” better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.

BreAnna Helsel escaped serious injury after being struck by lightning while inside her house. A day later, she won the lottery.

Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies have charged a man with stealing more than $8000 worth of lottery tickets from a convenience store.

A Fayetteville man was charged today with stealing more than $8,000 worth of lottery tickets from the convenience store where he worked.

HOLIDAY — Pasco County sheriff’s deputies are looking for the public’s help in finding two men who stole a box of scratch-off lottery tickets from a Sweetbay grocery store last month. On May 26, one of the men pried up…

HOLIDAY - Pasco County deputies are asking for the public’s help in their investigation of a lottery scratch-off ticket machine theft at a Sweetbay Supermarket.