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RALEIGH — A panel of lawmakers Wednesday proposed giving more money to school systems in Western North Carolina and other areas that feel they don’t receive their fair share of proceeds from the state lottery.

CHA is holding lottery, but applicants’ wait for housing help may be long For more than a decade, poor people couldn’t even get their names on a waiting list for federally subsidized rental housing in Chicago.

Recipe for disaster: Take one stolen lottery ticket, hide hundreds more on your person, then attempt to redeem one in front of three police officers.

The newest health-driven super lottery will have Albertans’ hearts racing, said the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta today.

An out-of-work warehouse supervisor from St. Albans and a partner in a mom-and-pop eatery in Elmhurst became the latest Lottery millionaires at a ceremony in the Queens Botanical Garden.

AUGUSTA (NEWS CENTER) — The stores that sell Maine Instant Lottery tickets are still worried about getting a pay cut. The commission that runs the lottery needs to save $1.6 million to help balance the state budget.

A $100,000 prize is going begging at a local newsagency while a lottery winner is seemingly unaware of their good fortune. Dubbo City Newsagency owners Betty and Peter Corby have started a campaign because the prize has been unclaimed for almost two years.

Thanks heavens for campaigners such as Denis Vaughan. The Aussie hatched the idea for a British national lottery in the first place. In the 13 years since it was inaugurated he’s been one of the few with the patience to keep tabs on its Byzantine finances.

The Kansas Lottery Commission will meet next month to consider proposals for four state-owned casinos and decide which ones to forward to the board making the final selections. The commission plans to hear May 19-20 from 11 applicants and could decide then which contracts to endorse, although it has until May 27. Twelve […]

Associated Press - April 16, 2008 2:55 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Lottery officials say they brought in $2.6 billion for education spending in the last fiscal year.