Winning online contests and lottery

Associated Press - August 7, 2008 12:15 AM ET OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - There was one winning ticket sold for the $140,000 cashpot in Wednesday night’s drawing for the Washington State Lottery’s…

There was one winning ticket sold for the $140,000 cashpot in Wednesday night’s drawing for the Washington State Lottery’s Hit 5 game, but nobody won the $1.9 million Lotto jackpot.

If you see Ohio offensive lineman Mike Eynon around campus this week, shake his hand and give him a pat on the back. He is the luckiest man in Athens after winning the second tier of the Ohio Lottery Mega Millions, worth $250,000.

BUTLER — The poor economy looks a lot rosier for a small grocery store owner who won $200,000 in the latest Powerball lottery. “I am going to pay some debts, get some bills paid off,” Mike Nave, the proprietor of Elk Mills General Store on U.S. Highway 321, said Wednesday morning.

Aurora police Wednesday were on the lookout for two suspects who took a “substantial” sum of money from a 57-year-old west suburban man on the pretext of sharing the proceeds of a lottery ticket with him, officials said.

A Fremont man won more than $220,000 last week after purchasing a MEGA Millions lottery ticket at a Milpitas liquor store. The California Lottery issued the winning numbers on July 22 for three MEGA Millions tickets purchased in Milpitas, Los Angeles and Auburn.

Anxious lottery players are keeping retailers on their toes, as Lotto 6/49’s jackpot climbs into the record books with an estimated $43 million on Wednesday.

Suspects tossed stolen lottery tickets out the window of their car as a Martin sheriff’s deputy tried to stop them on U.S. 1 Tuesday, according to reports released today.

It’s been said lightning never strikes twice, but Judith Yap is betting 50 grand that the old maxim is wrong. Last month the Glen Ellyn nurse assistant won $150,000 in the Illinois Lottery, and now she’s hoping to parlay it into $1 million in a single, 1-in-6 drawing.

In the latest jarring illustration of the country’s doctor shortage, a family physician in Northern Ontario has used a lottery to determine which patients would be ejected from his overloaded practice.