Winning online contests and lottery

Rising gasoline prices have brought a new twist on the state lottery in Florida.

The state lottery in Florida is offering free gasoline for life as second prize, and some people are hoping they don?t get first.

Tennessee lottery officials are warning about a fraudulent e-mail suggesting recipients are prize winners and asking for money to cover processing fees.

Three projects in the North East are the beneficiaries of the Big Lottery Fund’s 1,000th award.

Nobody won the jackpot in the weekend Powerball lottery, but a $200,000 ticket was sold in the eastern Maine town of Lubec. Two tickets sold in the multistate Powerball were worth $200,000 by correctly matching five of the numbers but missing the powerball numbers.

E-mail users are asked to beware of a fraudulent e-mail circulating nationwide suggesting recipients are prize winners of the Tennessee Lottery. The e-mail asks recipients for a payment to cover processing fees.

Idaho public schools are getting ready to reap the rewards of another record year for the state lottery.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho public schools are getting ready to reap the rewards of another record year for the state lottery. The Idaho Lottery handed to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter a dividend check worth more than $34 million Monday.

The Idaho Lottery is returning a portion of its proceeds to local causes with its annual dividend check. This is the fifth consecutive year the Idaho Lottery has increased in its annual dividend amount to the Idaho schools and public buildings - topping last year’s record of $34 million.

When you plunk down money to buy a Wisconsin Lottery scratch ticket, you expect to have a chance to win a jackpot.