Andrew Marc Greene e-mails: "My son's fourth-grade class was debating whether paper on which one scribbles offhand notes is scrap paper or scratch paper. Scrap paper describes where it comes from ...

Yet the scratch ticket as a consumer item has only existed for fifty years. Not so long ago, the idea of an instant lottery, of gambling with a little sheet of paper, was strange. Scary ...

A 19-year-old from Midwood is the latest winner of the New York Lottery’s Millionaire instant scratch-off game. Waquas Mazhar, a student at Kingsborough Community College, is one of four New York ...