Winning online contests and lottery

A Costa Rican who mistakenly washed a winning lottery ticket worth 112,000 dollars lost a court appeal to obtain the prize, a report said Wednesday.

The ticket was sold at a liquor store in Watts before an April drawing. If it’s not claimed in a week, the money will go toward state education funding. State lottery officials say time is running out for the buyer of a winning Mega Millions ticket at a Watts liquor store to […]

A Moriarty man claimed the top prize for New Mexico Lottery’s “$500,000 Extravaganza” scratcher game. Lonnie Freyburger, 52, and his wife Lois claimed the half million dollar prize at lottery headquarters in Albuquerque on Tuesday.

Fans chosen in the Tampa Bay Rays’ lottery to buy tickets for a possible Game 6 in the American League Championship Series are on the clock. The winners, notified by e-mail, may begin buying tickets online at 5 p.m. today and continue until they are sold out.

Vancouver, BC, October 15, 2008–(T-Net)–Carmanah Technologies (Toronto:CMH.TO) has received an order, valued at approximately $415,000 USD, to supply the Illinois Lottery with LED edge-lit EvenLit(TM) light panels.

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Education Lottery will hold the first of five preliminary drawings for the “$130 Million Blockbuster” instant scratch-off game at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia launched its first nationwide state-run lottery on Wednesday, with some of the expected 30 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) revenues over the next five years to go towards the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

YEARS of effort bear fruit today with a giant lottery cash payout for parks on Tyneside. The Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund awards mean that £4.5m will go to a ribbon of historic parks which run through Newcastle.

The grand prize in the Mega Millions multistate lottery has grown to $32 million. The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Tuesday night’s $23 million drawing.  The next Mega Millions drawing will be Friday night.

A Leroy Avenue convenience store was robbed of cigarettes, cash and lottery tickets early Tuesday.