A MOBILE play scheme for disabled children and adults has been awarded £50,000 by the Big Lottery Fund.

With at least 64 percent of Tennessee state lottery scholarship recipients losing their grants during their college career, something had to be done. Or so the thinking went in 2008, when the General Assembly made nine changes in the program, enabling about 12,000 more students a year to obtain or keep their scholarships. A lot of decisions would have been made differently at the time, of course …

Madrid, Spain — Spain’s Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of dollars in prize money on the country’s capital Tuesday.

Ticket sales for Spain’s annual Christmas lottery, the world’s richest in terms of prize money, which was drawn on Tuesday fell for the second consecutive year due to the recession.

Spain’s Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of euros (dollars) in prize money on the country’s capital Tuesday.