Winning online contests and lottery

An Upland woman celebrated her 71st birthday by buying a lottery ticket that won her more than $270,000, a California Lottery press release said Thursday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Economic doldrums hit home for state Lottery revenues for September, according to figures presented to the state Lottery Commission Thursday.Overall lottery revenues for the month totaled $119.56 million, down $14 million or 10.5 perce…

If you get a phone call, e-mail or letter telling saying you’ve won a lottery or raffle that you can’t remember signing up for, don’t believe it.

The Iowa Lottery makes a donation of nearly $1 million to the Veterans Trust Fund.

Players who thought they won serious cash from the Virginia Lottery will get something. A mistake caused losing tickets to print as winning tickets. Hundreds of people thought they had won.

Players who bought Fast Play Super 7’s lottery tickets will be compensated for a technical problem that erroneously led them to think they won cash prizes.

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — The New South Wales state government in Australia plans to sell its lottery and waste disposal units for A$1.3 billion ($874 million) to shore up a budget deficit, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

DES MOINES, Iowa — State officials says the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund received nearly $1 million in revenue Thursday. It’s the first such payment from special Iowa Lottery scratch games.

Players who bought Fast Play Super 7’s lottery tickets will be compensated for a technical problem that erroneously led them to think they won cash prizes. The Virginia Lottery said today that a programming error by GTECH, the game’s vendor, incorrectly printed 609 tickets showing prizes ranging from $2 to $7,777 on Oct. 19, the […]

Associated Press - October 30, 2008 3:25 PM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Players who bought Fast Play Super 7’s lottery tickets will be compensated for a technical problem that erroneously led them…