Winning online contests and lottery

So the governor’s talking about leasing out the lottery to pay for new roads, and many of you may be thinking: I thought the lottery paid for education.

Illinoisans apparently haven’t lost an appetite for lottery tickets, even though some say they are pinching pennies elsewhere in their personal budgets.

Critics renew call for lottery inquiry . 9:35 pm - 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.

Perry L. Crandall knows what it’s like to be an outsider. With an IQ of 76, he’s an easy mark. Before his grandmother died, she armed Perry well with what he’d need to know: the importance of words and writing things down, and how to play the lottery.

A $200,000 Powerball prize from one year ago went unclaimed, said Sally Lunsford, Kansas Lottery director of communications, in a news release.

Fitch Ratings assigns an ‘A’ rating to approximately $100 million School Building Authority of West Virginia (authority) excess lottery revenue bonds, series 2008. The bonds are a first issuance and expected to be offered through negotiation on August 7th. Fitch has also affirmed the ‘A’ rating on approximately $222 million excess lottery revenue bonds issued […]

NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings assigns an ‘A’ rating to approximately $100 million School Building Authority of West Virginia excess lottery revenue bonds, series 2008. The bonds are a first issuance and expected to be offered through negotiation on August 7th.

Did you hear the rumor about the Brazilian lottery winner? Supposedly a Brazilian immigrant bought a winning $126 million lottery ticket in Newark, but couldn’t cash it in because they were illegal,…

RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA– - BCLC is pleased to announce a winner of Vancouver 2010 Gold Medal Hockey tickets from SportsFunder lottery games. Tim King of Mission, B.C. is one of the first people in the world to secure tickets to the men’s gold medal hockey game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

It has been nearly a month since NEWS9 found out someone had the winning $24.5 million lottery ticket that was bought at the Steubenville Kwik King and now the winner has been found.