Winning online contests and lottery

A parishioner with a winning $3 million lottery ticket donated it to a church anonymously.

The True North Community Church in Port Jefferson had outgrown its home and faced a nomadic existence for the foreseeable future - until a member donated the entire prize of a lottery ticket.

The Minnesota State Lottery is seeing record sales in 2008, totaling $461.5 million.

Associated Press - August 27, 2008 2:05 PM ET PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) - A Long Island pastor says 1 of his congregants donated a lottery ticket to his church just after scratching it off and…

A Long Island pastor says one of his congregants donated a lottery ticket to his church just after scratching it off and realizing it was worth $3 million.

ATLANTA (AP) - The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $132 million Wednesday. None of the tickets sold for Tuesday’s $114 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Friday.

ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Greek lottery operator OPAP SA said that it will be joining a consortium to bid for the Turkish Milli Biyango sports betting lottery tender because it needs to internationalise and cannot sustain its national champion position past 2020 when its local monopoly franchise expires.

ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Sales of Minnesota Lottery tickets set a record in fiscal 2008, with record scratch game sales leading the increase. Lottery ticket sales totaled $461.5 million in fiscal 2008, an increase of 9 percent from 2007.

Sales of Minnesota Lottery tickets set a record in fiscal 2008, with record scratch game sales leading the increase. Lottery ticket

WEST BEND - A 47-year-old West Bend woman was arrested this week after admitting to stealing $400 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a convenience store at which she worked, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.