Winning online contests and lottery

Tickets to next month’s Minneapolis run of “Wicked” are scarce, but the touring production will distribute a limited number of seats to each evening’s performance through a lottery.

From Marc Fisher’s blog, Raw Fisher The long and complicated standoff over the contract to operate the D.C. Lottery boils down to one simple fact: Even though one company would do the work more cheaply and the other company has done a lousy job of running the lottery, the D.C. Council refuses to do…

LANSDOWNE – The Lansdowne Outdoor Recreational Development Association is one of the recipients of the RCMP Veterans Charity Lottery, which will be kicked off this week.

Millions go unclaimed in the California lottery each year. Have you missed a payday?

Hard-up families are turning to the National Lottery in the hope of financial salvation, it has emerged.

A consumer rights group in Italy has launched a legal battle to seize the record prize money in the country’s national lottery.

A thief with possible dreams of winning the lottery has struck a convenience store in Baytown

Imagine buying a winning lottery ticket only to find out it was all a mistake. That’s what’s happened to hundreds of lottery players around Virginia. Melvin Wright had more than $30,000 in winnings, or so he thought.

The Virginia Lottery responded to a computer glitch that had many people believing they struck it rich, but really cashed in on only a few dollars. As we first reported on Monday , the Virginia Lottery started a new game called “Super 7’s,” over the weekend, but they say a technical problem caused more than […]

LITTLE ROCK - Voters will decide the fate of a proposal to create a state lottery for college scholarships after the state Supreme Court on Thursday turned back a legal challenge aimed at striking the measure for the Nov. 4 general election ballot.