The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is adding even more value to instant lottery tickets with a new program called Points for Prizes. Players earn points by going to the lottery’s website and entering their non-winning instant tickets. These points can then be redeemed for merchandise.

ECO charity Action for Sustainable Living has been awarded a grant of £435,000 by the lottery.

The Iowa Lottery is giving a raffle game another try and hoping for more luck with the weather. Lottery vice president, Mary Neubauer says the first raffle game launched in the spring of 2008 — timing that turned out not to be so lucky.

Ohio should privatize the Ohio Lottery and the Ohio Turnpike and apply the proceeds toward scholarships totaling $7,000 per eligible student, a state senator proposed last week.

The chairman of the Arkansas Lottery Commission asked the commission’s internal auditor in a handwritten letter marked “confidential” to review whether the lottery’s human resources policies and practices are consistent with those of other state and federal agencies.

Work might not be the top priority for someone who’s just won the lottery, but financial experts say deciding what to do with a multimillion-dollar prize is a job in itself.

Check your pockets and cupboards, officials urged Israelis on Monday after waiting three weeks for someone to step up and claim about 20 million dollars, the Jewish state’s largest-ever lottery prize.