Orin Peschke of Fond du Lac won $1,000 in the Wisconsin Lotterys Super Second Chance drawing, according to a lottery press release.

Madrid – In the midst of the Christmas rush, there’s a long line of people waiting patiently in central Madrid. They are not after this year’s must-have item; they want a Christmas lottery ticket. Despite rising unemployment and the ongoing financial …

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY – Sales of Ohio lottery tickets were up about 1.4 percent or $15 million during the 2007 fiscal year as of Dec. 4. The current recession might turn out to be the longest and most painful downturn since the Great Depression, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal economic-forecasting survey.

Saturday’s Ohio lottery selections from www.ohiolottery.com:

Lions Club Sliema recently held a lottery to help raise funds for their project to buy Glaucoma Screening Equipment for government health clinics. Club president George Attard presented first prize winners Mr and Mrs M. Grech with a watercolour painting by Maltese artist John Martin Borg.

A man falls for a Nigerian hoax lottery mail and is cheated of lakhs; naupada police track a similar case in alibaug and bring the accused to thane for grilling.

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver is considering leasing the Iowa Lottery to help fix that state’s budget, though similar discussions do not appear to be occurring in South Dakota. The Des Moines Register reported Thursday that Culver has met with a business group headed by casino executive Dan Kehl, chairman of Riverside Casino and Golf south of Iowa City. The deal would involve leasing the Iowa Lottery …

LITTLE ROCK — With early voting for the November general election starting next week, opponents of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s proposed state-run lottery urged the state Supreme Court to remove the measure from the ballot Monday, arguing it does not define lotteries and could open the door for casinos.