Winning online contests and lottery

MUMBAI: Fifteen years ago, doctor couple Ashok and Kirti Patel had lost a lottery worth Rs 1 lakh by a single digit. But as they matched the numbers 30, 44, 25, 02, 34 and 32 on their computer on July 28 this year, they knew that this time they had struck gold.

House Speaker Michael Madigan says he’s taking a new look at the governor’s idea of privatizing the Illinois lottery to pay for a statewide construction program.

Governor Mitch Daniels is reviving his contentious proposal to lease the Hoosier Lottery to a private operator, saying it is one option to pay for a proposed college scholarship program.

Someone purchased a California Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth $166,599 at a Raley’s grocery store in Pittsburg on Tuesday but has not claimed the money, a Lotto spokeswoman said this morning.

INDIANAPOLIS | The Hoosier Lottery is back on the auction block, this time as a way to bankroll income-based college scholarships for high school graduates.

Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels is reviving his contentious proposal to lease the Hoosier Lottery to a private operator, saying it is one option to pay for a proposed college scholarship program.

Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels is reviving his contentious proposal to lease the Hoosier Lottery to a private operator, saying it is one option to pay for a proposed college scholarship program.

DES MOINES — A northwest Iowa woman drove away from the Iowa State Fair in a new, 2008 four-wheel drive Chevy Tahoe Hybrid®, the grand-prize in the Iowa Lottery’s “Set of Wheels” promotion. Nancy…

The agency that oversees lotteries in Ontario says its fraud safeguards are working after a woman tried to cash a fake ticket worth $200,000 Tuesday. Rosalinda Ygana, 54, was arrested just after 11 a.m. after police were called to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.’s Dundas St. […]

Gov. Mitch Daniels says leasing the lottery, a suggestion Democrats had criticized, would be one way to fund his proposed college scholarship program.