Winning online contests and lottery

LITTLE ROCK - A proposed constitutional amendment to create a state lottery to fund college scholarships should be removed from the November ballot because the wording of the ballot question does not inform voters of the “scope and import” of the amendment, the Family Council Action Committee argued in a brief filed Monday with the […]

Voters who cast a ballot in favor of establishing a state-run lottery won’t know the consequences of their choice because a proposed constitutional amendment doesn’t define lotteries, a conservative group told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday.

The West Virginia Lottery Commission has compiled its inaugural list of people banned - for life - from entering the state’s casinos.

Brenda Long said she was in too much of a hurry to buy lottery tickets at the Lotto Mart in South Pittsburg, Tenn., Monday, but that’s the only the reason she didn’t spend her weekly $10 on a longshot at fortune.

A lucky Missouri lottery player is $1.2-million dollars richer — except they don’t know it, yet.

You have until noon, Dec. 1 to submit your entry for the DV-2010 green card lottery. You must enter over the Internet you may not submit a paper entry. For more information, go to www.travel.state.gov and click on Diversity (DV) Lottery Instructions.

Economic troubles may have a lot of folks singing the blues. But for some of us, hope springs eternal. Americans are cutting back, but in Illinois, we’re not cutting back on lottery tickets. CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports people around Chicago are still willing to bet their cares will soon be over.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A conservative group says voters who cast a ballot in favor of establishing a state-run lottery won’t know the consequences of their choice because a proposed constitutional amendment amendment doesn’t define lotteries.

Voters who cast a ballot in favor of establishing a state-run lottery won’t know the consequences of their choice because a proposed constitutional amendment amendment doesn’t define lotteries, a conservative group told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday.

Tickets for the third installment of the Arizona Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle, with nearly $4 million in cash prizes, are available for purchase beginning today wherever Lottery tickets are sold.