Consultant Craig Douglass of Little Rock has asked the Arkansas Lottery Commission to consider hiring him as its interim coordinator. He provided commissioners with information about state lotteries and suggested communications strategies during the past month and a half. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

CARSON CITY — A bill to let voters decide whether to legalize a state lottery appears to be dead after the chairman of the Senate committee in control of the bill said members do not want to conduct a hearing on it.

A North Devon village is to get a safer car park and an office to print the parish newsletter thanks to the Big Lottery Fund, which has announced a grant of £39,408 to improve life in Petrockstowe.

Twenty-five years after approving a state lottery, California voters are being asked to expand it to help plug a multibillion-dollar hole in the state’s sagging general fund. Prop. 1C potentially would have the largest impact on California finances of any of the six initiatives that the Legislature placed on the May 19 special election ballot.

Prop. 1C’s proposed modernization of the California Lottery hinges on attracting new players or getting existing ones to buy more tickets and help pay for at least $5 billion in budget borrowing. But who are the scratchers, number pickers and would-be Mega-millionaires who in 2007-08 bought more than $3 billion in tickets?

A lottery player in Spain has won 126 million euros ($169 million), the biggest ever European jackpot for a single ticket, lottery organizer EuroMillions said Saturday.