Winning online contests and lottery

When you pay for college tuition later this month, you’ll see why they call it higher education. The cost goes up every year. At some state schools you’ll pay as much — or more — for tuition with a LIFE scholarship this year than you would have paid without any financial aid in the days […]

The effect of the ban on smoking in public on the bottom line of the Chances Good Time Gaming Centre comes as no surprise to the B.C. Lottery Corporation.BCLC spokesperson Greg Walker said John Major’s claim that revenue has fallen 20 to 25 per cent falls in line with what was expected as a result […]

Critics say a public inquiry into the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. is long overdue after police revealed they had no evidence to charge a former retailer who won 167 prizes worth $1.2 million over a nine-year period.

An Adell gas station sold a $200,000 lottery ticket Wednesday, according to the Wisconsin Lottery.

According to the Kansas Lottery, Ruth Hutton this week purchased three $2 Bonus Crossword tickets, winning a $20,000 top prize on the first ticket she scratched. This isn’t the first time Hutton won $20,000 by matching all ten words playing Bonus Crossword.

CRANSTON, R.I. – The winning $200,000 PowerBall ticket sold in Rhode Island for the $75 million PowerBall drawing on July 26 has been claimed. Linda Nuss of Louisville, Ky. came to the Rhode Island Lottery validations office to claim her winnigs.

A former convenience store clerk who was acquitted of stealing a winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $100,000 was in court Tuesday on two separate, but related, theft cases.

DIXON - The Dixon Park District is getting lucky. Murphy Oil Corp., which received $85,000 this month for selling a lottery ticket worth $8.5 million to a Franklin Grove couple, plans to share $10,000 of that with the park district, Executive Director Deb Carey said.

Albany, N.Y. — Governor David Paterson is expected to propose privatizing the state lottery. But, where retailers and economists see dollar signs, others see trouble.

Charged with stealing more than $102,000, including a winning lottery ticket, Casey Nicole Kerr was rejected from the York County District Attorney’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, which would keep her out of jail.