Rocco Derrigo said his wife, Jean, convinced him to play the lottery regularly. “She said, ‘You’ll never win.’ I had to prove her wrong,” the Floral Drive resident joked.

The New England Patriots are developing the first licensed NFL instant ticket with the Massachusetts State Lottery just days after league owners voted to allow teams to partner with lotteries across the country. “This is going to be a hugely successful collaboration,” Robert Kraft, chief executive of Kraft Group, which owns the Patriots, said yesterday. “We are looking forward to …

The Seahawks and the Washington State Lottery are exploring putting team logos on scratch-off games.

Sensitive personal information on more than 27,000 Texas Lottery winners, more than 600 lottery employees and more than 500 retailers was found on a computer used by a former lottery employee arrested Tuesday on information theft charges, court filings revealed Thursday.

RICHMOND—A Rappahannock County couple has become Virginia’s second Mega Millions jackpot winner this month. Virginia Lottery officials said Thursday that Joe and Sue Claffy won $19 million in the May 15 drawing. Joe Claffy bought $6 worth of tickets after the clerk at Martin’s Food Market in Front Royal asked him if he wanted to play. The winning ticket was one of two nationwide to split the $38 …

Scott Lituchy/The Star-LedgerCashier Huseyin Polat sells lottery tickets at 24 Seven, the mini mart at the Lukoil Station in Newark, in 2007. The New Jersey Lottery will hold its drawings Friday despite the state worker furlough day. TRENTON — The…

Lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco says results of the drawings will be posted on NJN television and on the lottery Web site.

By Globe Staff Congratulations, the caller says, you’ve won the lottery. But there’s just one thing: To collect your prize, you must send the taxes on the money — usually thousands of dollars — to a post office box. You…