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TRENTON - A winning ticket for Tuesday night’s $126 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at Newark’s A&J Seabra Supermarkets, state lottery officials said yesterday.

The Kansas Lottery recorded its second-best year for sales, even though ticket sales dropped 1.4 percent for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

The Kansas Lottery saw its ticket sales drop about 1.4 percent during the fiscal year that ended June 30. But the Lottery noted that it was still the second-best year for sales since the games of chance began in 1987. Sales were $236.7 million in fiscal 2008. That’s about $3.3 million less […]

The Kansas Lottery saw its ticket sales drop about 1.4 percent during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

The Colorado Lottery sold a record $505.8 million worth of tickets for the fiscal year ended June 30, with scratch tickets largely responsible for fueling sales.

But the Lottery noted that it was still the second-best year for sales since the games of chance began in 1987.

HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK, Maui (KHNL) - Changes have been made to how visitors can reserve for a wilderness cabin on Maui. Starting in September, Haleakala National Park will no longer use a lottery system to select cabin users.

The New Mexico Lottery announced record profits of $40.8 million on net sales of $147.1 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The New Mexico Lottery reports record profits of $40.8 million for the fiscal year that ended in June. The profits - which help New Mexico students pay tuition - rose $5.98 million or more than 17 percent over the previous year’s $34.8 million total.

By Victoria Wallack, Times Record Bureau AUGUSTA — High fuel prices have apparently not put a damper on state lottery ticket sales, with the lottery reporting it will end the fiscal year $600,000 over budget.