Winning online contests and lottery

When customers arrived at the Quick Check in Swatara Twp. for bread, milk or Pennsylvania Lottery tickets Wednesday, they found five people dressed as giant fingers dancing at the front door.

Many people worrying about how to pay the bills are checking the numbers their Powerball ticket. The Minnesota State Lottery reports ticket sales are up 4 percent for July and August compared to the same time last year.

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The company that operates the New Jersey lottery has been fined $1.4 million.

PARIS — More than 30 million Europeans will buy tickets this week in the hope of scooping the €130 million ($190 million) up for grabs in Friday’s Super EuroMillions draw, the lottery said Wednesday.

GTECH Corporation, the longtime operator of New Jersey’s lottery, has been fined $1.4 million by Washington, D.C., over charges that subcontractors of the company or a partner firm hacked into the District’s lottery system and printed winning tickets for themselves…

The Georgia-based company that runs the Colorado Lottery’s computer systems is apologizing for a glitch that prevented players with winning tickets from redeeming them.

BOSTON - The state lottery has ended an incentive program that rewarded lottery retailers with free tickets to professional sports games because it had become excessively…

DENVER (AP) - The Georgia-based company that runs the Colorado Lottery’s computer systems is apologizing for a glitch that prevented players with winning tickets from redeeming them.

London, September 24 : A British couple in England have clinched an over four-million-pound lottery win following the prediction by a gypsy.