The Vermont Lottery announced today that it will launch a new program, Play It Again, in June, as a new way to participate in second chance drawings.

Play It Again will replace the current second chance drawing program, Recycle & Win.

Doing away with the mailing in of non-winning tickets to the Lottery, Play It Again will allow players to simply go to the Vermont Lottery Website (www.vtlottery.com/playitagain) to enter their ticket numbers for quarterly online drawings.

In addition to the quarterly second chance drawings, every specially marked Vermont Lottery...

Two employees of a Chicago Heights, Illinois, bakery are suing co-workers over a $118 million Mega Millions jackpot, alleging they were unfairly left out of the winnings.

Jose Franco and Marco Medina were regular participants in a lottery pool with co-workers at the bakery for about a year, according to the suit.

The group won $9 during a drawing on May 1, and there was an understanding that the money would be used to purchase more tickets for a May 4 drawing, the suit said. Some employees kicked in additional money, but Franco and Medina say they weren't asked to contribute.

Police in Michigan are investigating the stabbing death of a couple, and family members believe they were killed over a winning lottery ticket.

"I just ask that if anybody know anything, just please. Because they didn't deserve this, my daddy helped the community. He would have done anything for anybody. They could just have got the ticket and left them alive," said the victims' daughter Tierra Evans.

Evans believes a winning ticket proved unlucky for her parents William and Brenda.

"The motive was a lottery ticket," she said.

Two weeks ago, Evans said her father hit the lottery and told everyone he was a winner before cashing in the ticket.

A $5 weekly investment in a lottery office pool has paid off for a group of Bell Helicopter employees in Fort Worth, Texas.

Today, the Texas Lottery launched its new 20th Anniversary scratch-off game to commemorate the lottery's two decades of generating revenue for the state of Texas.

A Florida newspaper analyzed Florida lottery winnings of $600 or more for 2011.

Recent lottery winner Wally Markham isn't just a member of his local country club -- he owns it.

A lottery winner who frittered away her £1.9 million (US$3 million) fortune on drink, drugs and luxury items is expecting twins -- and she says the feeling is even better than when she hit the jackpot.

The Arizona Lottery announced today that all six $1 million Powerball second prize tickets won in Arizona from the drawing on Wednesday, April 25 have been claimed by one person.

A Massachusetts man thought he won a $1 million lottery prize until he realized the ticket he had was a misprint.