Winning online contests and lottery

SPRINGFIELD - Recent talks about selling the state lottery to pay for more roads, bridges and schools have been productive, House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday.

After Robert Powell hit the Florida Lottery jackpot last month and took home more than $6 million, he thought of his church. And he offered to drop his tithe, around $600,000, in the collection plate of First Baptist Orange Park.

The Massachusetts State Lottery’s first online venture appears to have hit the jackpot. Keno sales are on the rebound - up 5.4 percent so far this fiscal year, which…

INDIANAPOLIS #8212; Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels has revived a contentious proposal to lease the Hoosier Lottery to a private operator, saying the money could fund a proposed college scholarship program.

The Texas Lottery Commission paid nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said he was fired for going public about problems with a vital computer system.

An undisclosed amount of money and lottery tickets were taken from an E-Z Mart store on Pinecrest Drive Wednesday after an unidentified black male robbed the convenience store at gunpoint, a Marshall Police Department official said.

Question: I got e-mail the other day from the British Web Lottery. It said that I had won $1 million! The e-mail had an MSN e-mail address. I want to know if this could be legitimate.

Someone who bought a Powerball ticket at a convenience store in Fuquay-Varina has won $800,000, state lottery officials said today.

AUSTIN — The Texas Lottery Commission paid nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said he was fired for going public about problems with a vital computer…

The Texas Lottery Commission has paid nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by an ex employee.