Winning online contests and lottery

BALTIMORE — Marylanders, affected like everyone else by the economy, are spending less — except when it comes to lottery tickets.

Area legislators have swung into action to try and keep a lottery office open somewhere in the Tri-Cities after state lottery officials last week deemed the one in Johnson City too expensive to operate cost-effectively.

The B.C. Lottery Corporation is offering a new game in which players can win coveted tickets to the 2010 Winter Games, along with other prizes and cash.

The BC Lottery Corporation and VANOC have announced that 500 pairs of 2010 Olympics tickets will be available as prizes in a new lottery game. The Countdown to 2010 SportsFunder lottery tickets include …

Area legislators have swung into action to try and keep a lottery office open somewhere in the Tri-Cities after state lottery officials last week deemed the one in Johnson City too expensive to operate cost-effectively.

More than half of the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle tickets have been sold for Jan. 3 drawing. Only 249,548 tickets remained as of 11 a.m. today.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA– - Today, BCLC announced the chance to win exclusive Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games ticket packages, coupled with GM vehicles, Air Canada trips, and Panasonic prizes, through SportsFunder’s new $20 Countdown to 2010 Olympic lottery game.

Charlie Rector Jr. of Taylorsville and Olivia Vongkhamkeo of Mooresville won money with instant scratch-off tickets from the N.C. Education Lottery.

A CUPAR charity disappointed to have lost out on £1 million of lottery funding, this week lodged its formal appeal against the decision. (27/11/2008 14:58:09)

The deadline has come and gone to put your name in to the statewide lottery for tickets to President-Elect Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.