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Spend enough time online, and you'll come across some kind of contest or sweepstakes offering you a chance to win a prize. Most of us brush these off as  dangling carrots — veiled corporate attempts to collect our data and court free advertising. The odds of actually winning seem miniscule.

But a community of avid "sweepers" claim to have mastered the art of winning these sweepstakes. They...

Peter Alley is "a little overwhelmed" after winning $500,000 in the Maine State Lottery last month, his second large lottery payout in less than two years.

The Bar Harbor resident received a check for $355,000 after taxes were withheld, Maine State Lottery spokeswoman Angie Helton said.

Alley purchased the winning ticket, for the $20 instant scratch-off game "$500,000 Payout," at a Portland convenience store.

The odds of winning the maximum award of $500,000 are 137,143 to 1, according to the Maine State Lottery website. Alley, a maintenance supervisor for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System, also won a $100,000 prize from the Maine State Lottery in December 2017, netting $70,000 after taxes.

"Oh baby, I can't believe I did it again"

A Connecticut man just won a $100,000 lottery, barely a year after winning the same jackpot.

Bruce Rosa won the top prize in the Connecticut Cash 5 on July 5. He previously won $100,000 prize in the same lottery on April 27, 2018.

"Oh baby, I can't believe I did it again," Rosa said, according to a press release from the Connecticut Lottery. Of the 4,000 winning tickets this week, Rosa's was the only one with all five numbers matching.

A Minnesota man has found himself a multimillionaire after winning $21.6 million in Lotto America's Wednesday draw.

A federal judge in North Dakota on Wednesday sentenced a Rhode Island woman to four years in prison for funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica, prompting a prosecutor to question the ruling.

Connecticut Lottery Corp. Vice President Chelsea Turner testified Tuesday that around 2014, she and then-lottery CEO Anne Noble had such suspicions about Frank Farricker, then chairman of the lottery's governing board, that she contacted an agent she knew in the FBI — which then had Noble record Farricker secretly in at least one meeting.

The Michigan Lottery's Lotto 47 jackpot hasn't been won in more than five months and has reached an extraordinary $11.7 million for the drawing on Saturday.

Nearly two years after Keno received a sound defeat in Concord, the New Hampshire Lottery Commission is hoping the Capital City will give the game another try.

Wisconsin Republicans are planning to take public comments on a bill that would keep lottery winners' names secret.

When a Florida grandmother went to the Florida Lottery District Office in Orlando to cash her winning ticket, she got denied and was told the state had intercepted all her winnings — all because she reportedly owed more than $1,700 from almost 30 years ago.