Winning online contests and lottery

The fate of a potentially multibillion-dollar state construction-spending spree financed by leasing out the Illinois Lottery games could be decided by state House members this week.

JEFFERSON CITY — The state is offering a refund to 473 people who bought lottery tickets for a drawing after it had ended. The Missouri Lottery discontinued its Show Me 5 Paydown on Sunday and started Show Me Cash on Monday. But on Monday, 473 people bought tickets for the midday drawing […]

A Buffalo Grove woman was defrauded out of $9,000 by two con artists who told her they had a winning lottery ticket and needed help cashing it, police said Tuesday.

A Buffalo Grove woman was defrauded out of $9,000 by two con artists who told her they had a winning lottery ticket and needed help cashing it, police said Tuesday.

LITTLE ROCK — A trade group that represents roughly 85 percent of Arkansas’ convenience stores announced its support Tuesday of a proposed state-run lottery.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 at 5:33 p.m. (AP) — The state is offering a refund to 473 people who bought lottery tickets for a drawing after it had been ended.

South Charleston Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the man who held up a video lottery parlor over the weekend.

MONTREAL, Sept. 9 (UPI) — In Montreal, a video lottery terminal is often less than 3 minutes away by foot from a compulsive gambler — usually a male 18 to 44, researchers said.

Nearly 10,000 of the state’s 16,000 lottery terminals went offline for a brief time Tuesday. John Carlson says everything is back up and running, but a problem with the Verizon telecommunications equipment did put 9,5000 terminals offline.

The manager of a Holiday station store in Columbia Heights is facing charges for allegedly stealing lottery tickets from the store where she worked.