A day of reckoning is coming for students and parents over Tennessee’s lottery scholarships that could result in tightened eligibility, reduced scholarship awards or both.

The sour economy isn’t stopping some big-spending Texans from plopping down $50 for a single lottery ticket.

Associated Press – December 21, 2009 12:14 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Idaho Lottery officials say 90 percent of the tickets for the $1 million raffle have been sold.

A Kansas town of 330 has a pair of lottery winners.

An Eastern Iowa hospital is joining a campaign to encourage public awareness of the effects of purchasing lottery tickets as holiday gifts for children. Here’s the news release from Allen Hospital in Des Moines: Lottery tickets and scratch cards are becoming increasingly popular as gifts during the holiday season. As an affordable, colorful and potentially promising gift, [...]

LITTLE ROCK — Critics of Arkansas’ lottery have called for research to show who is playing the lottery — and Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue says they’ll get it.

A Manitoba couple who won a CA$50 million (US$46.7 million) lottery jackpot in the Nov. 6 Canada Lotto Max drawing are sharing the wealth with their Sagkeeng First Nation community.

The Liberal government will sign a $200,000 deal with two investment banks within days to do “preliminary research” on privatizing all or part of the problem-prone Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Toronto Star has learned.

People planning a trip to northeast Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe area have a shot at hard-to-get permits through a lottery now underway.

Roughly $16.7 million in college scholarships and grants was awarded to 10,988 students in six Northern Kentucky counties last school year from Kentucky Lottery proceeds.