Winning online contests and lottery

A campaign to create a state-run lottery reported Friday that it raised $11,000 in August.

A campaign to create a state-run lottery reports that it raised $11,000 in August.

CLEVELAND (AP) - The Ohio Lottery says sales for the new Keno lottery game didn’t keep pace with annual projections during the first month of operation.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana lottery officials say Hurricane Gustav has cut sales by about half. About 450 of the lottery’s 2,600 dealers are unable to sell tickets.

Missouri Lottery players will get a new numbers game Monday, but also lose one.

A Cleveland, Georgia, woman who works on a chicken farm is celebrating an “eggs-cellent” $5 million dollar lottery win. Peggy Abernathy, 42, who lives at Turners Corner in Lumpkin County but has a Cleveland address, picked up her prize Friday.

The Ohio Lottery says sales for the new Keno lottery game didn’t keep pace with annual projections during the first month of operation.

Mike Winiasz of Lorain watches his neighbor pick numbers in the Ohio Lottery’s new game, Keno, but he does not indulge. “The last time I was in a lottery, I was picked No. 1 in the draft,” he said. “I figured I used up my lottery luck.”

Eager to find money for construction projects around the state, House Democrats are taking a new look at an unpopular idea: privatizing the Illinois lottery. The House is scheduled to convene next week to consider the idea, which has been floating around Springfield since Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposed it early last year.

PAST: Gov. Rod Blagojevich proposed privatizing the lottery last year, but the idea fell flat. This year, the Illinois Senate approved a revised version.