Winning online contests and lottery

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Education Lottery will hold the first of five preliminary drawings for the “$130 Million Blockbuster” instant scratch-off game at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia launched its first nationwide state-run lottery on Wednesday, with some of the expected 30 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) revenues over the next five years to go towards the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

YEARS of effort bear fruit today with a giant lottery cash payout for parks on Tyneside. The Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund awards mean that £4.5m will go to a ribbon of historic parks which run through Newcastle.

The grand prize in the Mega Millions multistate lottery has grown to $32 million. The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Tuesday night’s $23 million drawing.  The next Mega Millions drawing will be Friday night.

A Leroy Avenue convenience store was robbed of cigarettes, cash and lottery tickets early Tuesday.

ISTANBUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The privatisation of Turkey’s national lottery is planned to be held within the next few days, the head of Turkey’s Privatisation Administration (OIB) said on Wednesday, according to broadcaster CNBC-e. Companies interested in the tender include GTech-Lottomatica and Intralot, Turkey’s Koc Holding and Cukurova Group.

ISTANBUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The privatisation of Turkey’s national lottery is planned to be held within the next few days, the head of Turkey’s Privatisation Administration (OIB) said on Wednesday, according to broadcaster CNBC-e.

A German pensioner who lost half her life savings because of the financial crisis has cracked the national lottery’s jackpot of more than 8 million euros ($10.9 million), a lottery spokeswoman said this week.

YEARS of effort bear fruit today with a giant lottery cash payout for parks on Tyneside. The Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund awards mean that £4.5m will go to a ribbon of historic parks which run through Newcastle.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee lottery officials are suing two companies they believe are responsible for a software error that resulted in the sal….