The Florida Lottery announced today that one lucky player matched all five winning numbers in the Friday, July 24, FANTASY 5 drawing and will win a $223,764.20 top prize.

Well, ducks and a load of other wild types. The Lee Valley has been granted £379,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding. Wild Places Your Space is a new project run in partnership with the RSPB, designed to get East Londoners hugging their local trees and making friends with the wildlife in their hood. We reckon they’ve been reading our Nature-ist series , as that pretty much sounds like our mission …

The Arkansas lottery’s executive director has hired his fourth former colleague from the South Carolina lottery. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

Protesters blocking the entrances to dump Site 41 eased tensions Friday by proposing they hold a lottery about what time of day the OPP will begin making arrests. It was expected that arrests might occur yesterday if workers showed up at 7 a.[...]

Pair sentenced for fraud told to repay half of £30,000 prize A couple who found a winning lottery ticket and cashed it in were today ordered by a court to pay back half of the prize money to the woman who bought it. Dorothy McDonagh, 61, dropped the £1 ticket on the floor of her local Co-op store in Swindon on 20 October last year. Michael and Amanda Stacey found the ticket, cashed it and then …

A British man who found a winning lottery ticket on a supermarket floor and cashed it in has been ordered to pay back half the money plus interest to the original buyer.