Winning online contests and lottery

OTTAWA — Organizers and volunteers for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation have a long way to go if they are going to pull a profit on their inaugural Answer to Cancer lottery.

The boss of the NHS’s drug approval body has called on local healthcare trusts to end Britain’s ‘postcode lottery’ row.

The boss of the NHS’s drug approval body has called on local healthcare trusts to end Britain’s ‘postcode lottery’ row.

The head of the NHS drug approval body today calls on healthcare trusts to end Britain’s “postcode lottery” for prescribing drugs. Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), said that primary care trusts (PCTs) should be consistent in deciding whether to make funds available for drugs.

A lottery bandit is nabbed in California after alert employees spot him trying to cash hot tickets. While too good to be true lottery scams hit the news all the time, stories of crimes involving real lotteries happen less frequently. Apparently, a 37-year-old Ceres, California man was arrested by local and state detectives after […]

Someone who shopped at Edmar Foods in Bensenville in March could be $250,000 richer, if only he would cash in his winning lottery ticket. A winning Mega Millions lottery ticket was sold at Edmar Foods, 219 W. Main St., March 14, but the prize is among dozens listed on the Illinois Lottery Web site as […]

A man who won $10 million in a California lottery has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed three people. Thomas Turnour was sentenced Friday in San Bernardino.