Nguyen Van Het and his wife in their charity house built by local authorities in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11. After winning more than US$400,000 in a local lottery earlier this month, their home has been flooded by droves of people claiming to be long-lost relatives and demanding a piece of the windfall.

LINCOLN — Three days later, it is a different name for the same game. “The Lincoln Census Lottery is not a lottery at all,” Mayor Lew Watson said. Watson said there has been quite a reaction from the announcement of the Lincoln Census Lottery, including numerous calls from various media.

The long saga of the two- and three-digit online lottery is ending, noted a Post Today writer, adding that it is likely the government is using this issue to solve several problems at the same time.

HELENA (AP) — Montana Lottery players will soon be able to try their luck with the multistate Mega Millions game.

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday signed into law House and Senate bills that set lottery scholarship amounts and the state’s spending for the next fiscal year.

Gov. Mike Beebe has signed into law legislation setting the amounts of lottery-funded scholarships and the state’s $4.5 billion spending plan for the coming year.

The Powerball and Mega Millions lottery jackpots are now both nearing $100 million. The Powerball annuity jackpot went up to $95 million ($46.1 million cash option) last night after no one had a ticket matching the first five numbers — 4 17 35 50 57 — and the Powerball 12.