Big lottery ticket holder in Indiana out of luck (The Washington Times)

INDIANAPOLIS | Hoosier lottery players have been digging through their trash, scouring their cars and bringing fistfuls of old tickets, some in shoeboxes, to an Indianapolis store, hoping they would find the winning — but unclaimed — $2.5 million jackpot ticket. But time ran out Friday as the 5 p.m. deadline for cashing in the winning Hoosier Lotto ticket came and went with no one coming forward …

Progress slow in lottery talks over disabled access, plaintiff says (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

More than eight months after the state’s high court ordered the Virginia Lottery to ensure that its games are accessible to the disabled, the lead plaintiff in the case says he is frustrated nothing substantive has been done. Lawyers for the lottery and the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy have talked several times since the court’s June ruling, but they have declined to comment on …