Nevada is known worldwide for gambling, from slot machines and table games to sports books and mobile betting. But one form ...

"Scratch and Win" is a new WGBH News podcast about how a bunch of Massachusetts state bureaucrats set out to beat the mob at its own game — and ended up creating a $100 billion dollar obsession. Never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I did, and many of you did, too. Americans bet billions on NCAA tournaments. We also "spent $60 billion at casinos last year [and] ...

In 1964, following a state official’s decade-long push to launch a fundraising sweepstakes, New Hampshire began selling $3 tickets that offered a chance to win a $100,000 prize — ushering in the ...

Jackpot: $2.5 million. That’s roughly how much, in today’s dollars, the winner of England’s first-recorded state lottery won on Jan. 11, 1569. Not bad – though about 100 times less than Saturday’s ...

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