Budget cuts may soon force out some 36,000 low-income people from Washington’s Basic Health Plan, a state-subsidized insurance program. Officials are looking at five possible ways to decide who gets bumped — including a potentially controversial lottery.

After Arkansans voted for the lottery last November now the commission is hiring an Executive Director but have came to a road block — will they hire someone with experience or not?

Friday’s winning Michigan Lottery numbers.

The Florida Lottery announced today that the Friday, May 29, MEGA MONEY drawing resulted in a rollover, producing hundreds of winners and a $900,000 jackpot for the next drawing.

An Australian student worried about her parents’ money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars (US$10 million) 10 months ago, a state lottery agency said.

Concerned about her family’s finances, a university student in Australia cashed some long-forgotten lottery tickets this week — hoping the money would help her parents.

A former director of the New York Lottery and an attorney for the South Carolina Education Lottery have applied to be the Arkansas lottery’s executive director as the number of applicants has increased by 15 to 48. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)