Winning online contests and lottery

To celebrate its 15th year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has unveiled two new ways to become an instant millionaire.

CONDON, Ore. — The next best thing to winning the lottery is driving someone to claim the prize. Gerold Banick, of Condon, matched all six numbers in the May 12 Megabucks drawing, winning the $6 million jackpot.

West Virginia’s lottery sales are up more than 2 percent compared to this time last year, despite high gasoline prices.

Someone who bought a Super Kansas Cash lottery ticket in north-central Kansas is now a millionaire. The ticket matched the numbers drawn Monday and captured a jackpot worth more than $1.2 million, lottery officials said. The winning numbers are 4, 14, 15, 20 and 30, with a Cashball of 9. The north-central […]

A PENSIONER targeted by foreign fraudsters has lost £24,000 of savings after being tricked in a lottery scam.

ROCK HILL South Carolina lottery sales are up 3.7 percent despite high gas prices, rising food costs and unemployment. The $15.7 million increase from last spring goes against usual trends that show higher gas prices take away the extra cash that normally goes to lottery tickets. South Carolina lottery sales fell last year […]

SACRAMENTO – The state lottery is switching its advertising pitch on nearly two dozen billboards throughout the state, a modest attempt to boost ticket sales. But the sales campaign will have to get much more aggressive if the lottery is going to pay off Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $15 billion bond plan to help cover a […]

A Tiffin woman won $25,000 playing an Iowa Lottery scratch game, according to a news release sent Monday.