Winning online contests and lottery

FAYETTEVILLE — People facing layoffs and foreclosures have less money to afford lottery tickets and increased desperation to buy them, opponents of Proposed Constitutional Amendment 3 said during a Fayetteville stop on a statewide tour.

Lottery officials announced Thursday that people who had bought misprinted tickets for a recently added game that said they’d won will receive some compensation for the tickets.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says he’s he voted for creating a state-run lottery to fund college scholarships, despite concerns about how much it will cost the state to start up the games.

A proposal backed by Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter offers Arkansas its first chance to vote solely on whether the state should get into the business of scratch-offs and lottery drawings to fund college scholarships.

With one week to go before the end of the first phase of ticket sales, Vancouver Olympic organizers say they now expect strong public demand will force tickets to many top-level events to be decided on the basis of a lottery.

DENVER - Forget candy, one Centennial couple is rolling in dough after matching five numbers in the Colorado Lottery.

Pennsylvania Lottery officials today announced that a York business sold the only winning ticket in the $58.6 million, Oct. 29, Powerball jackpot.

A food vendor who had been playing the lottery for a decade has won Malaysia’s biggest ever jackpot of 20 million ringgit (5.7 million dollars), reports said Friday.

Lottery fund bosses have been blasted after awarding almost half a million pounds of lottery cash to fund research into drug problems among lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.

A programming error caused several hundred lottery players to think they’d won as much as $7,000. But they didn’t and now they are being compensated.