Winning online contests and lottery

Del. Ben Cline, R-Rockbridge, plans to try again this year to keep more lottery money for classrooms and put the state budget online so people can track their tax dollars.

FORT MILL, SC (WBTV) - A birthday party for the South Carolina Lottery, turning seven years old on Wednesday. When it went on line in 2002, the lottery was billed as a way to boost education in South Carolina. In our Cover Story the impact it’s had and how it’s going against the trend.

A Brampton, Ont., man who thought he had won $135,000 on lottery tickets, only to be told the scratch cards were misprints, has reached a financial settlement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

The $47 million winner of the California Lottery’s Mega Millions game was all smiles Wednesday afternoon when he claimed his winnings and was introduced at a news conference as Todd Moitz, state lottery officials said.

The Colorado Lottery has been investigating a 21-time jackpot winner, but his ’system’ for getting lucky in the Cash 5 game might just be that he and his family play constantly.

High Wycombe A £265,000 project funded by the National Lottery has failed to solve the riddle of dozens of pairs of shoes left hanging from a 40ft ash tree beside the A40, a ritual that has been going on since the 1970s.

TORONTO - An Ontario man who says misprinted scratch-and-win tickets made it appear he had won $135,000 has received a “payment” from lottery officials but adds he didn’t get his dream.

TORONTO - An Ontario man who says misprinted scratch-and-win tickets made it appear he had won $135,000 is meeting with lottery officials in Toronto.

(Little Rock, AR) — To hear the leaders of the Arkansas House and Senate tell it, the lottery will be the biggest issue state lawmakers will face this session.

For the first time, Missouri Lottery sales for one year have exceeded $1 billion. Lottery officials say the take is 4 percent more than 2007’s total of $963 million. Scratch-off tickets accounted for two-thirds of all 2008 lottery revenues with sales up almost 8 percent over the previous year. Lottery spokesman Gary Gonder said the $1 billion mark is a “goal we’ve had for quite awhile.”