Winning online contests and lottery

The economy may be struggling, but Maryland residents are buying lottery tickets at record levels.

Two Ottawa men are splitting a $32 million lottery jackpot after decades of buying tickets together.

The Ohio Lottery Commission has approved 70 percent of the applications by outlets with liquor licenses.

The Idaho Lottery is presenting a check to Governor Otter of $34.7 million dollars for state public schools and buildings.

Corner store owners in Newfoundland and Labrador are skeptical about new training the Atlantic Lottery Corporation wants them to take.

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has held their annual lottery for firearms deer licenses. Despite 94,000 applicants there are still nearly 63,000 antlerless deer licenses remaining.

In my last book, I told lottery winners four things: Don’t let anyone know you won. Set up a trust. Hire good attorneys and advisors. Take the money in an annual payment.

TOLEDO (AP) - More than 1,000 bars, restaurants, racetracks, bowling alleys and other establishments have applied to the state to bring the Ohio Lottery’s new Keno game to patrons, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Rape victims face a “postcode lottery” in the way they are treated, official figures reveal.

The “postcode lottery” experienced by rape victims has been depicted in a new map based by campaigners on official figures. Women’s equality group the Fawcett Society, which compiled the map, claimed it “reveals huge deficiencies in police responses to rape” in many parts of the UK.