Winning online contests and lottery

Despite a rocky economy, the Idaho Lottery says people are still willing to spend some cash on a hope and a dream.

The 22 postal workers had been playing the lottery together for years, sharing the disappointment of regular failures with the grim resolve of the always hopeful.

An Afghan family living in a £1.2million home paid for by the taxpayer admitted yesterday they felt as if they had won the lottery. Mother-of-seven Toorpakai Saiedi, 35, receives £170,000 a year in benefits.

A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home won $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year.

A proposal in California would allow the state to borrow money against future revenues from the lottery. It comes at a time when California is already having a difficult time getting short-term loans to cover its budget.

MULLAN — Sam, you’re going to Disneyland. After winning the second top prize from the Idaho Lottery in four months, Dan Polla is using some of the $100,000 to take his 10-year-old son, Sam, to the place champions go after winning the Super Bowl.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some guys have all the luck. And it looks like Dan Polla is one of them. The Idaho convenience store owner collected $100,000 Tuesday in a state lottery scratch-off game.

GAINESVILLE - Gainesville police are investigating a theft case that began with a request to cash a lottery ticket.

A Canadian man is suing the Loto-Quebec corporation over a lottery ticket that took 7 seconds too long to print and lost him $13.5 million.The suit is over a $27 million Super Seven drawing May 23 that would have been split two ways, The Gazette newspaper in Montreal reported.Joel Ifergan said that on a whim […]

MONTREAL, Oct. 8 (UPI) — A Canadian man is suing the Loto-Quebec corporation over a lottery ticket that took 7 seconds too long to print and lost him $13.5 million.