Winning online contests and lottery

Even if your next lottery ticket isn’t a winner, Iowa veterans win when you play. The Iowa Lottery introduced the first lottery game to benefit veterans.

PORTLAND (AP) — Police arrested a Portland man accused of selling some of the 3,700 scratch-off lottery tickets that were stolen from a Rockaway Beach convenience store last summer.

When Douglas Kidd scratched off $10,000 on the Maryland Million lottery ticket at the Royal Farms convenience store in Hampden seven years ago he bought a car.

Some lucky Montana hunters beat the odds to win the SuperTag lottery for moose, sheep and goat tags separate from the regular annual hunting tag drawing.

A Lottery winner was celebrating his good luck today - after scoring the jackpot using numbers from a Chinese fortune cookie.

After spending $4 a week to play Hoosier Lottery, Dolores Lightfoot got lucky on July 2. The Hebron resident won the $10 million jackpot after buying the ticket from Godfathers Liquor, 107 E. Morthland Drive in Valparaiso. The store will receive $100,000 for selling the winning ticket.

MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Lottomatica SpA said that its unit GTECH Corporation has extended for four years a contract to supply equipment and services to the California Lottery.

LITTLE ROCK — Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s campaign for a state lottery to fund college scholarships has raised more than $470,000, the campaign reported Tuesday in a filing with the state Ethics Commission.

LITTLE ROCK — Lt. Gov. Bill Halter said Tuesday his proposal for a state lottery to fund college scholarships is a public policy issue and therefore appropriate for his staff to spend time on during office hours.