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A random test of retailers in the Maritimes by the Atlantic Lottery Corporation could not find a single one who would sell a lottery ticket to someone under 19.

TORONTO - Feeling lucky - the jackpot for tonight's Lotto Max lottery is a near-record - 50 (m) million dollars.

The Atlantic Lottery Corp. is launching an automatic review into a Saint John man who won $7.6 million in the 6/49 draw on Saturday night.

HANOI (AFP) - A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, a report said Tuesday, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Saint John for Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw is almost $7.7 million richer.

TAMPA, Fla. - The woman charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a Florida Lottery winner has been ordered held without bail.

TORONTO - Finance Minister Dwight Duncan pressed the reset button on Ontario's troubled lottery and gaming agency Friday by installing a new board with National Post CEO Paul Godfrey at the helm.

A man in western Newfoundland who believes video lottery terminals led to the death of his daughter is campaigning to have the gambling machines banned.

A Carrot River couple have become Saskatchewan's latest lottery millionaires.

CARROT RIVER, Sask. - A couple from a small town in northeast Saskatchewan are counting their blessings after winning $20 million on a five-dollar lottery ticket.

A group that wants Newfoundland and Labrador to get out of the video lottery terminal business is calling on the government to set up an independent task force to study the social impact of VLTs.

There is concern growing in the Miramichi area over the Metepenagiag First Nation's plan to build a new gaming centre.

AUSTIN, Texas - A district judge says nearly $400,000 seized from the accounts of a man who stole a Texas maintenance worker's lottery ticket must be handed to the scammed jackpot winner.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A deaf South African cleaner besieged by begging relatives after a newspaper reported he had scooped a 91 million rand ($12 million) lottery jackpot was not the winner, the draw's organizers said on Tuesday.

WHISTLER, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Whistler's luge track was under fire again on Monday when Canada coach Wolfgang Staudinger said the decision to move the women's and doubles starts down to the junior push-off had turned the events into a lottery.

LONDON - Britain's richest-ever lottery winners say they celebrated their 56 million pound ($88 million) jackpot in modest style - with breakfast in a grocery store.

BATH (AFP) - A couple who won a record 56 million pound lottery prize told on Monday how they celebrated with bacon sandwiches at their local supermarket.

LONDON (AFP) - A ticketholder has won 56 million pounds on the EuroMillions lottery, easily becoming the country's biggest ever lottery win.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The choice of a slot machine vendor for New York's Aqueduct Racetrack came under more scrutiny on Wednesday as federal prosecutors subpoenaed a charity with ties to the vendor.

WHISTLER, Canada (AFP) - Canadian speed specialist Manuel Osborne-Paradis knows a thing or two about Whistler, having been born in nearby North Vancouver and spending his childhood learning to race at the ski resort.

TAMPA, Fla. - Just over a week ago, a friend of a missing Florida lottery winner approached an acquaintance with a chilling request, according to detectives: Dig up the body of the dead man in her backyard.

TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who befriended a Florida lottery winner who later went missing was charged Tuesday in connection with his slaying, five days after his body was found buried in her backyard.

A small Summerside business is revolutionizing an old hockey game favourite, taking 50/50 tickets into the stands.

BEIJING (AFP) - Celebrated Chinese philosopher Confucius -- already on movie screens across China in the form of Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat -- is now being used as the frontman for a new lottery scheme.

PLANT CITY, Fla. - Winning millions of dollars in the Florida Lottery should have been the best thing that ever happened to Abraham Shakespeare.

Researchers at the University of Manitoba are calling on governments to remove video lottery terminals from all bars, restaurants, lounges and branches of the Royal Canadian Legion.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Check your pockets and cupboards, officials urged Israelis on Monday after waiting three weeks for someone to step up and claim about 20 million dollars, the Jewish state's largest-ever lottery prize.

REGINA - A Saskatchewan couple have won one of the largest lottery prizes ever claimed in the province.

A farm couple from the Grayson, Sask., area have claimed a $20 million jackpot in the game Lotto Max, continuing a lucky streak for lottery players in the province.