RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The Virginia Lottery’s Pick 3 game is getting a Boost. The new Boost option gives Pick 3 players five additional chances to win. The Lottery said Thursday that choosing the Boost option adds randomly selected Easy Pick numbers to players’ tickets.

Special to The Press Register A second lottery will be held at Clarksdale Municipal School District’s central office on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. This is open to the public. The purpose of the second lottery is to place late registrants for the magnet schools. Another purpose is to allow participants who did not receive their first choice in magnet school another chance to place their …

Associated Press – May 7, 2009 12:05 PM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The Virginia Lottery’s Pick 3 game is getting a Boost. The new Boost option gives Pick 3 players five additional chances…

The new Surf Gardens housing development in Coney Island catering exclusively to low-income senior citizens will be ready to accept residents by 2010, this newspaper has learned. The seven-story development, now taking shape between West 31st and 32nd streets at Surf Avenue, will offer residents age 62 and older 77 units of new housing through a lottery system.

The Florida Lottery announced today that four lucky players matched all five winning numbers in the Wednesday, May 6, FANTASY 5 drawing and will share a $232,486.04 top prize.

ANKARA, May 7 (Reuters) – Turkey cancelled the tender for the privatisation of its national lottery after the two bidders failed to reach the $1.622 billion minimum bid that had been set, the Privatisation Administration said on Thursday. The two bidders were a consortium led by OPAP, Europe’s biggest betting firm, and a Turkish consortium led by mobile phone group Turkcell. (Reporting by Hatice …

ANKARA, May 7 (Reuters) – Turkey cancelled the tender for the privatisation of its national lottery after the two bidders failed to reach the $1.622 billion minimum bid that had been set, the Privatisation Administration said on Thursday.

(Corrects to make clear OPAP consortium’s bid for lottery was below minimum $1.622 billion)