The Florida Lottery announced today that one lucky player matched all five winning numbers in the Sunday, May 10, FANTASY 5 drawing and will win a $171,262.91 top prize.

Relationship Marketing Systems, LLC. Last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted an Arizona-based lottery products company an exclusive patent for a new lottery pooling option that could revolutionize the way jackpot lottery games are played, generating millions of new lottery winners and billions more in revenue for sagging state economies.

One lucky lottery ticket from Spain matched 5 lotto numbers plus the two Lucky Stars in Friday’s Euro Millions drawing to win a massive jackpot of €126 million (US$170 million).

Beginning with the 2009-2010 graduating class, Arkansas seniors who hold a 2.5 grade point average or score 19 on the American College Test, ACT, and attend an Arkansas college will be eligible for the HOPE Scholarship funded through the Arkansas lottery, according to Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

The board of education has run its first Open Choice lottery, and not every student who applied to a neighborhood school was placed there.

Gov. Jim Gibbons might not remember it, but the record shows he has flip-flopped on the issue of a state lottery.

ROCKY HILL (AP) — Dozens of lottery agents from across Connecticut have asked the state’s lottery board not to cut their commissions.

LONDON, May 11 — Lottery officials across Europe were searching today for one of the continent’s richest people, who may still be unaware that they possess a lottery ticket worth £110 million (RM572 million). The EuroMillions jackpot is the world’s biggest ever single lottery prize, but the Madrid lottery shop that sold the ticket has so far been unable to trace the buyer. If found, he or she …