The WNBA announced Thursday that its draft lottery will be held November 2 in New York City.

Pay attention, Miss Maya…. The WNBA announced Thursday the way its 2011 draft lottery will shake out and unless some team makes a deal it looks like you will begin your professional career with the Minnesota Lynx, Chicago Sky or Tulsa Shock. Here is the release from the league’s communications department. You will recall that the Connecticut Sun, which would have been a lottery team, traded …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Businesses that currently hold licenses for video poker machines can bid on any unclaimed licenses in all three rounds of next months bidding process under new Lottery Commission rules.The West Virginia Amusement and Limited Video Lo…

Some players using the B.C. Lottery Corporation’s PlayNow website say they’ve found either a loophole or a software glitch that’s giving them easy money, CBC News has learned

Ontario’s lottery corporation has moved to quell public skepticism in the system as police announced charges against a Burlington convenience store manager who allegedly conspired with his family to defraud a customer of $12.5 million in winnings.

The Oregon Lottery is doubling the stakes for this year’s Thanksgiving Raffle. There will be two $1 million prize winners when the numbers are drawn Nov. 23 at the state lottery office in Salem. There will also be 20 people who win $20,000 prizes and 2,000 winners who claim $100 prizes.

When the state Education Lottery cranked up in 2005, it did so with the promise that lottery funds would go solely to boost education in four areas: to craft smaller class sizes, school construction, funding of preschool programs and to fund scholarships.

The Hoosier Lottery revenues are not spent like many people believe. And in Michigan, the benefit schools experience isn’t what you might think.