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WEST NYACK - A White Plains man who won $3 million in a scratch-off lottery game last month will get his money today.

As the Virginia Lottery turns 20, the sweepstakes is looking for more ways to get younger people into the game.

A conservative think tank says tax revenue from the Ohio Lottery would be reduced if voters pass a November ballot issue approving a casino in southwest Ohio.

IRON MOUNTAIN - A local convenience store recently sold a winning $300,000 lottery ticket. An anonymous female winner purchased the Super Red Hot Cashword ticket at the Quik Food Mart Citgo Station at 205 N. Stephenson Ave. “We haven’t heard anything official yet,” said store manager Jennie Dabb. According to Michigan Lottery Public Relations Manager Andi Brancato, the winner claimed her prize

LITTLE ROCK — With early voting for the November general election starting next week, opponents of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s proposed state-run lottery urged the state Supreme Court to remove the measure from the ballot Monday, arguing it does not define lotteries and could open the door for casinos.

Tennessee lottery officials are suing two companies they believe are responsible for a software error that resulted in the sale of about $2 million worth of unwinnable tickets last year.

TRENTON, N.J. - Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the midday New Jersey State Lottery drawing:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Here are the winning numbers selected Tuesday in the Illinois State Lottery:

The state’s lottery office says that sales are up 2 percent year-to-date, but it can’t necessarily attribute that to the struggling economy and people trying to push their luck during desperate times.

An attorney for an antilottery group urged the state Supreme Court on Monday to block the Nov. 4 vote on a proposed state lottery amendment because its ballot title is misleading. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)