Tonight's LOTTO SUPER 7 jackpot is $10 million! Players can purchase tickets at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation retailers until 9:00 p.m.

Since its launch in May 1994, Ontario LOTTO SUPER 7 players have won nearly $2.1 billion in prizes! For each $2.00 play, LOTTO SUPER 7 players receive three sets of seven numbers ranging from one to forty-seven.

ENCORE is also available on LOTTO SUPER 7 for $1.00.

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer: " A replica of 1950s pre-communist Havana opened in this capitalist gambling haven yesterday.

"The $285 million retail, dining and entertainment complex called the Quarter at Tropicana Casino & Resort - this city's largest nongaming expansion project to date - was specifically designed to capture Old Havana in its pre-Fidel Castro heyday.

"…The Old Havana concept for the Quarter is borrowed directly from the Forum Shops in Las Vegas, where nongambling revenue accounted for 57 percent of last year's $10.4 billion in total revenue for the Strip's 40 casinos. It represents Atlantic City's attempt to boost nongambling revenue, as slot-machine competition intensifies from neighboring states, including Pennsylvania.

The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing has grown to $149 million.

None of the tickets sold for Tuesday night's $126 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Friday night.

There were 16 second-prize winners from Tuesday night's drawing, matching all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $175,000 each.

A last-minute Quick Pick led to a spectacular haul for a Régie intermunicipale Roussillon police officer living in the Montréal suburb of Saint-Philippe.

Jacques Babeu nabbed the second largest grand prize ever offered by Loto-Québec - the whopping sum of $24,426,784 - during the October 27 Lotto 6/49 draw! It was a little over one year ago, on October 3, 2003, that a Laval resident won the record-setting $25,418,690 Super 7 grand prize.

Mega Millions players are feeling the excitement as the jackpot continues to grow. When Tuesday's winning numbers were drawn, they turned 426,995 tickets into Mega Millions winners. Each of those tickets matched one of Mega Millions' nine prize levels. Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the jackpot grows to an estimated $77 million for the Friday, November 5, 2004 drawing.

Three Mega Millions tickets won $175,000 for matching the first five numbers and only missing the Mega Ball number. Those tickets were sold in Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In addition, 23 tickets won $5,000 each for matching four numbers plus the Mega Ball.

The Babcock Chevron, 6392 Babcock Road in San Antonio, today became the recipient of $360,000 for having sold the ticket that matched the five numbers and the bonus ball in the September 9 Lotto Texas™ drawing.

"It's been quite a while since we've visited San Antonio to give a retailer a bonus check, which makes me even happier to present this ceremonial check for $360,000 to Mr. Harry Singh, the owner of this Chevron," said Texas Lottery Commission Executive Director Reagan E. Greer. "The Babcock Chevron is one of nearly 17,000 retailers who are the bridge between the Lottery and our players. Our retailers all go the extra mile to keep their customers happy and help us to maintain a high level of fun and entertainment in our Lottery games. And, best of all, they help us create winners."

UK lottery operators, Camelot, have launched a new mobile service which means that players are no more than a 20p text away from purchasing a ticket. Mobile users can now text 61111 with their numbers and purchase a virtual ticket for the Lotto, EuroMillions or Daily Play draws. Winners also will be informed of their good fortune by text.

I'm holding a Hoosier Lottery $1 instant scratch-off ticket in my hand, and I'll put a coin to it by the end of this column.

First let me explain why I've been holding it for more than a week and why I'm reluctant to scratch off its pristine potential.

A Fonda, Iowa, woman has agreed to plead guilty to claiming a lottery pool's prize as her own.

In a plea agreement filed Monday in Buena Vista County District Court, Mary Farrell, 54, agreed to plead guilty to first-degree theft. District Judge John P. Duffy scheduled sentencing for Nov. 8.

WINFIELD, West Virginia (AP) -- Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday.