A $1 million Powerball ticket purchased in Fayetteville has not yet been claimed, North Carolina Education Lottery officials announced Monday. The ticket – sold at the Coliseum Family Fare, 2036 Gillespie St. – was the biggest winner in Saturday’s Powerball drawing.

(Crain’s) — The state of Illinois has awarded a $3.95-million contract to management consulting firm Oliver Wyman Group to act as an adviser in helping the state select a private manager for its lottery. Oliver Wyman, a unit of New York’s Marsh & McLennan Cos., will advise the state in …

The retailer that has sold the most Arkansas lottery tickets is not in one of the state’s major population centers.

Police and state officials searched seven locations Saturday and arrested 17 people following an investigation into “bolita,” or illegal lottery, according to documents obtained Monday and police.

SCHENECTADY, March 29, 2010 — The New York Lottery today announced Bonnie View of Frankfort won $10,000 on the Lottery’s Loose Change Doubler instant game.

“The nation’s attempt to gamble its way out of the recession has generated a bonanza for ruined castles, weedy public parks and neglected archives. Thanks to an increase in lottery ticket sales, the Heritage Lottery Fund will have an extra £25m a year to distribute in grants from now until 2018.”

A new maritime museum in Hampshire moves a step closer after the plan was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant.

MIDLOTHIAN Labour MSP Rhona Brankin has attacked the NHS “postcode lottery” for infertility treatment.

The Knicks are in Utah Monday night to face the playoff-bound Jazz, which also will get a lottery pick. Utah owns the Knicks’ first-round pick, an asset that six years ago was traded to the Phoenix Suns as part of the Stephon Marbury deal.

Efforts to restore a castle built in the 1800s for a rich opium trader receive £240,000 of lottery funding.