Winning online contests and lottery

A third area woman has been arrested in connection with a scheme to claim lottery winnings from stol …

Plans to lease out the Illinois Lottery for billions of dollars could be in jeopardy after federal authorities recently said such deals might be illegal.

One winning ticket was sold for the $400,000 cashpot in Monday night’s drawing for the Washington State Lottery’s Hit 5 game.

Luck ran out for a Vero Beach man within three hours of robbing a convenience store of several lottery tickets Sunday, according to police.

LAKELAND | Lakeland’s next export: billions of lottery tickets.GTech Printing Corp., an international producer of scratch-off lottery tickets, is expanding to Lakeland and will employ more than 200 people locally over the next few years, the company announced Monday.

A third area woman has been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to falsely claim lottery w …

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) — The Pentagon plans a lottery to pick family members of victims of the 2001 attacks on the United States to attend a hearing for the reputed terrorist leader.

MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s first nationwide state-run lottery sold its first tickets on Monday, with more than 7,400 snapped up in less than five hours, a Gosloto spokesman said on Monday.

Larry Page, a veteran foe of lottery and casino proposals, considers his current effort to defeat the proposed state constitutional amendment to authorize lotteries in Arkansas to be his toughest fight. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

Lottery ticket sales in Minnesota hit an all-time high during the 2008 fiscal year.