Congressional candidate Willie Herenton is ready to go on the attack against Steve Cohen on an accomplishment the two-term incumbent has often taken pride in. Herenton charges there may be major disparities in how lottery scholarships have benefited African American college students.

As school systems across the state struggle to balance their budgets, someone always asks: What happened to the lottery money?

TORONTO — Here are the winning numbers from Ontario Lottery and Gaming for Wednesday’s draws: The winning Encore number was 0166245. The winning numbers in Wednesday’s Lotto 6-49 draw were 10, 19, 23, 24, 33 and 38.[...]

The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game is about to become Oregon’s second major lottery jackpot game.

Winter Haven, Florida — A man who stole scratch-off lottery tickets has been arrested for redeeming them at the same store, deputies said today. Allen Nguyen, 22, of Winter Haven, allegedly stole $70 worth of scratch-off tickets Monday from a Circle K store on Cypress Gardens Boulevard.

A Thomasville man has won $5,000 playing an instant scratch-off game with the North Carolina Education Lottery. Chad Hohn won by playing “Cash Spectacular,” according to information from a lottery press release.

The new, animated ad is the only lottery commercial we can bear to watch. The lottery is one of the stubborn bastions of horrible design in the U.S. The tickets break every good design rule: they’re cluttered and noisy and covered in foil. Jessica Helfand took tickets to task on Design Observer last year, putting them at the top of her list of Ten Things that Need to be Redesigned: I suppose if …

A Gaston County lottery player won $30,000 while two players from Shelby won $10,000 and $5,000 respectively. Marzette Colon of Cherryville won $30,000 playing the “Triple Lucky Diamonds” instant scratch-off game. LaTorra Hopper of Shelby won…

The manager of a gas station near Bangor was charged yesterday with stealing $74,129 worth of instant lottery tickets from the business over three years, state police at Belfast said.

POLICE say a new wave of lottery scams is sweeping across north Essex.