A global lottery with prizes of hundreds of millions of dollars could go ahead in 2010 with New Zealand taking part.

Here are the winning numbers from Sunday’s midday New York Lottery: Numbers: 274 Lucky sum: 13 Win4: 3698 Lucky sum: 26…

For Edward Robinson, the holidays started early this year. The Norwood Young America man won $10,000 through the lottery’s Big Bucks scratch game with a ticket purchased at the Holiday gas station on Faxon Road on Nov. 24.

It won’t be here in time to bite back at the global recession, but a multimillion-dollar world lottery could still go ahead by 2010.

ALTONA — A store owner here is fighting to change state legislation that revoked his tobacco and lottery licenses following a second cigarette sting.

Ah, another week, another lottery winner. While deleting messages from my inbox last Monday, I stopped to read a press release from Washington’s Lottery. Robert Winn of Granite Falls had just bagged a $200,000 jackpot by playing a scratch-ticket game called “The Color of Money.”

South Dakota law shields the names of those involved in lucrative industry. Database: Search a list of officers and their companies with liquor licenses in the state of South Dakota, many of which are video lottery operators.

Kirby Muilenburg wasn’t a distinguished student when he left Alexandria for Sioux Falls shortly after graduating from high school in 1992. But Muilenburg clearly was bright, people who know him say, and he worked hard. He took a job delivering chips and pop to businesses in the area. The vending business put him in touch with video lottery, and he saw an opportunity.

These names appear most frequently in the Argus Leader’s database of liquor and beer licenses. The numbers below represent our best estimate of how many video lottery businesses in which each person is involved, based on the liquor licenses they hold. Kirby Muilenburg – 24

Oklahoma lottery proceeds will continue to fall until it offers more prize money and produces more winners, and that won’t happen until legislators change a state law, members of the Oklahoma Lottery Board said.Increased lottery prize money would generate more money for education, which under state law receives 35 percent of lottery sales, said Jim Scroggins, lottery executive director.The …