Winning online contests and lottery

Nobody came forward to claim a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $174,574 before it expired Monday, so the money will go to California schools instead, lottery officials said.

The three ministers linked to the two-and three-digit lottery scandal will today ask the Council of State, the government’s legal adviser, if they have to step down from the cabinet now the Supreme Court has accepted the case.

A proposal to use a lottery to assign spots to hot-dog carts and other mobile food vendors is unfair, city commissioners said on Monday.

The Kentucky Lottery is reporting its total sales for the 2008 fiscal year were nearly $780 million, which is a record for the state. Kentucky Lottery Chairman and CEO Arch Gleason says the $778.2 million in lottery ticket sales is a jump of about 4.6 percent from the previous year. […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Lottery is reporting its total sales for the 2008 fiscal year were nearly $780 million, which is a record for the state.

A EUROPEAN firm could be running Ireland’s national lottery licence from 2011.

A total of £11m earmarked for the new Museum of Liverpool is secure, the Heritage Lottery Fund announces.

The Kentucky Lottery Corp. posted $778. 2 million in sales for the 2008 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to a news release.

Lottery officials urge players to check their tickets because there’s a Super Kansas Cash jackpot worth more than $300,000 out there. It was sold in northeast Kansas for the Saturday night drawing.

CANTON A city man won $120,000 playing the Ohio Lottery’s Rolling Cash 5 game. Gary Gallo of Canton bought the winning ticket for $1 at the BP-Giant Oil station at 3811 Cleveland Ave. NW.