Winning online contests and lottery

The state Lottery has launched an all-out ticket bonanza, handing out hundreds of thousands in seats to high-demand sporting events, including giving more than a dozen Bay…

What do a penguin, chicken and emu have in common? They’re all flightless birds who share the screen in Washington Lottery’s latest TV spot “Birds,” voted #1 last week on Adcritic. The ad shows how winning the lottery can offer people a chance to do something they never thought possible — that could change […]

Welsh bats are to get a 50,000 pounds helping hand from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Wales is a stronghold for some of Europe’s most vulnerable bat species.

A Wisconsin lottery ticket worth $100,000 will be worthless if no one claims the prize in the next 10 days.

When North Dakota’s former lottery director retired in April, he was paid $44,432 for unused vacation time, a sum that is raising eyebrows among lawmakers who write the budget for state government.

Fred Topous, the Kent City man who just won $57 million in the Mega Millions lottery, is a registered sex offender with a criminal past.

A Charleston man will spend up to 10 years in prison for threatening a clerk with a gun and taking cash from a video lottery parlor.

PALMETTO — The buyer of a Florida Lottery ticket at a convenience store here has won a $500,000 prize, the state reported Thursday.

The state lottery commission thought it was a yummy idea to use Hershey candies to market an instant $2 scratch ticket game. Turns out the idea left a sour taste in Gov. Chris Gregoire’s mouth — mine, too.