Winning online contests and lottery

Economic bad times are everywhere in South Carolina, but you wouldn’t know it by soaring lottery-ticket sales. The state-run games have raked in cash over the past six months, up 3 percent statewide from the same period, January to June, one year ago. That’s a surprising result, given the state’s record-high gas prices, rising food […]

COLUMBIA — Economic bad times are everywhere in South Carolina, but you wouldn’t know it by soaring lottery-ticket sales. The state-run games have raked in more cash over the past six months, up 3 percent statewide from the same period, January to June, one year ago.

A grandmother denied life-prolonging cancer drugs in a postcode lottery has been given fresh hope after a judge ordered her case be reviewed.

The winning Daily Pick 3 numbers for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were misreported due to a software problem with the Kansas Lottery’s online vendor GTECH, according to a news release.

About 1,100 Pennsylvania Lottery retailers had to turn customers away for nearly nine hours Thursday as the system was adversely impacted by a problem with telephone service.

The Kansas Lottery says it misreported Pick 3 numbers for three dates because of a software glitch.

St. Albans Police have released the surveillance video of a mom trying to rob a video lottery parlor clerk.

The last ticket for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s July 5 Millionaire Raffle was sold today at 10:39:56 a.m. at Vinny’s, 25 Lindsay Drive in Uniontown, Fayette County.

The Powerball lottery is coming to Florida in January, but some lawmakers fear it could make schools more dependent on gambling.

The Rev. Robert Ascolese did it as church fundraiser. The former pastor of a Washington Borough, N.J., church was sentenced Thursday to three years in state prison for concocting a fake lottery-style scheme to raise money for the church.