Winning online contests and lottery

As Lottery Commission officials talked yesterday about first quarter sales holding their own with last year’s record showing, top ticket sellers in MetroWest reported declining sales due to belt-tightening and budgeting by regular players

Economic downturn affecting lottery winners

A sign of the hard economic times, as hundreds turn out for a promotion by the California State lottery. A gas station at Jensen and Maple was giving away $50 worth of free gas to the first 200 people who bought $10 worth of Pick 4 lottery scratch off tickets. Many said they were there […]

The BC Lottery Corporation is finally giving sports fans a cheap way to score seats to some of the most anticipated events of the 2010 games. It has released a new series of SportsFunder 2010 Olympic …

LANSING — The owner of a winning $42 million Mega Millions ticket, sold at a Macomb County liquor store, is expected to show up at Lottery headquarters Friday to collect the fortune.

A 74-year-old Spartanburg County man recently became the Palmetto State’s newest lottery millionaire, the S.C. Education Lottery announced this week. The player won $1 million playing Powerball. The man, who asked lottery officials to withhold his name, bought the lucky ticket at Wilco Hess #912 in Spartanburg. The winning white ball numbers in the Oct. […]

The winning Pennsylvania Lottery numbers for Thursday, Oct. 9. Midday Daily: 797 Big-4: 9389 Evening Daily: 999 Big-4: 3220 Cash 5: 3, 11, 16, 19, 41 Mix & Match: 14, 10, 19, 1, 8…

The winning New Jersey lottery numbers for Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Midday Pick 3: 566 Payoff: $226.00. Box: $75.00. Pairs: $22.50. Pick 4: 7350 Payoff: $3,395.50. Box: $141.00….

One very lucky Kansas City man won the Missouri Lottery not once, but twice in the same year. Arthur Watkins Jr., 53, matched five white-ball numbers in the May 21 Powerball drawing to win $200,000, and then selected the winning Powerball numbers for a second time in the Sept. 24 Powerball drawing to win $200,003.

Students in Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln and Mercer counties have shared in millions of dollars in college scholarships and grants paid for by Kentucky Lottery proceeds. This is according to newly-released figures from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority.