Winning online contests and lottery

The first time Roger Lanham won a grand prize playing the California Lottery, he was calm as can be. The shock of actually winning a second time left the Bay Point man ’shaking like a leaf.’

The bank accounts of a woman from Iwate Prefecture who was strangled in May 2005 after she won the lottery have remained untouched since her murder, police sources said Friday. A total of 40 millio …..

The fate of a state-run lottery now lies in the hands of Arkansas voters.

INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mitch Daniels said Friday that he is dropping the idea of privatizing the Hoosier Lottery as an option of funding a college scholarship program after the U.S. Department of Justice said such a move would not comply with federal law.

Gov. Mitch Daniels says he will abandon his push to privatize the state’s lottery.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Mitch Daniels says he’ll drop the idea of privatizing the Hoosier Lottery as an option to fund a program that would pay college tuition for many high school graduates.

Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the midday New Jersey State Lottery:

CARBONDALE–A new scratch off game from the Illinois State Lottery will soon benefit the men and women who serve our country. It’s the sixth in a series of scratcher tickets and is called “Coin Craze”.

BOISE - The Idaho Lottery’s Million Dollar raffle will return for its second year – with a guaranteed top prize at the seven figure mark. The ten dollar raffle ticket will go on sale November 7th at 6 p.m. – with a total of 250,000 tickets sold.

The Arizona Lottery reports that a $3 million winning ticket was sold at Albertsons at 14551 W. Grand Ave., Surprise.