Winning online contests and lottery

Li Guirong, an employee at a lottery station in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, was at work on July 31 when Zhang Dazhu, a local citizen, called. Zhang asked Li to buy a lottery ticket for him because he had a business meeting that evening.

Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday night in the New Jersey State Lottery:

The Scottish Government is asking Westminster to give £150m in extra National Lottery funding to Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games in 2014. Ministers in Edinburgh believe the money would be fair compensation for the millions of pounds of lottery money being used to fund the London Olympics.

Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the midday New Jersey State Lottery drawing:

Olympic sailing champions Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson brought along their most prized possessions, their gold medals, when they attended the National Lottery Awards on Saturday.

The Scottish Government today called on Westminster to provide £150 million in extra Lottery funding for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Ministers in Edinburgh believe the money would be fair compensation for the millions of pounds in Lottery cash going to fund the London Olympics.

ATHENS, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Europe’s biggest betting firm OPAP plans to bid for Turkey’s national lottery Milli Piyango in a joint venture with Turkish business groups, its chief executive said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday.

ATHENS, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Europe’s biggest betting firm OPAP plans to bid for Turkey’s national lottery Milli Piyango in a joint venture with Turkish business groups, its chief executive said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday.

Saturday’s winning Michigan lottery numbers.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Here are the winning numbers selected Saturday in the Illinois State Lottery: