Winning online contests and lottery

CRANSTON, R.I. — A number of unclaimed winning tickets are nearing their expiration dates, the Rhode Island Lottery said Thursday. There are two unclaimed $10,000 PowerBall prizes that are about to expire.

The Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board is one step closer to choosing two developers for two of the four proposed state owned casinos.

Pierre-Antoine Guillaume, left, signs up for the lottery for Madison Smith Apartments with Rich Brousseau, property manager of New Neighborhoods, and Nydia Brown, executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Stamford.

HOUSTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) — A Web site link from the Texas lottery to an Internet social networking site containing some pornographic postings has some people upset.

A woman from a wealthy Connecticut town was in no rush to claim an $8.8 million lottery jackpot.

Harrah’s Entertainment has asked the Kansas Lottery to reduce its proposed investment in a casino resort for Sumner County, but the lottery won’t allow it. The company wants to remove its proposed ancillary development from its contract with the lottery. Harrah’s, a partner with Sumner Gaming and Resorts in a proposed casino near […]

Darrell Penas of Grand Island received a 2008 Toyota Tundra 4-by-4 double-cab truck this morning at Coffin’s Corner after winning it in the Nebraska Lottery’s $2 Truck$ & Buck$ Scratch Game.

After nine months, the mystery of who held the winning $8.8 million lottery ticket is solved.

One ticket sold in Fond du Lac matched all five winning numbers in the Wisconsin Lotterys $30,000 Badger 5 drawing held Wednesday. The $30,000 winning ticket was sold at Hansens BP, 414 W. Johnson St. No one immediately stepped forward to claim the prize. The ticket-holder has 180 days to claim the winnings, according to […]

After Lorene Baker lost a few times at a new scratch off game from the Texas Lottery, she started to get discouraged, but she and her husband decided to give it one more try. That decision paid off — bigtime.