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Thanks to $325,000 lottery win, couple will replace home lost in Hurricane IrmaNews Story
A couple who lost their home to Hurricane Irma in the U.S. Virgin Islands say they will be able to rebuild their lives after winning a $325,000 prize on a $1 North Carolina lottery ticket. After the hurricane devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, 2017, Patricia and Frank Raffa moved in with their daughter in Arden, North Carolina. The category 5 hurricane was one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, CNBC reported. We lost everything, Frank Raffa told NC lottery offi
Aug 29, 2018, 7:52 am - Lottery News

How North Carolina scratch-off lottery tickets are distributedNews Story
What would you do if you won the lottery? And what if you could figure out a system that would help you win it? Pat Jackson thought perhaps someone had done that when she read about a couple that won a $10,000 scratch-off prize and then a $1 million scratch-off prize on the same day in different counties. Jackson, who lives in Charlotte, became curious about the distribution of the thousands of scratch-off tickets that are sold at nearly 7,000 locations across the state. So she posed a
Aug 8, 2018, 8:29 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner survives helicopter crashNews Story
A North Carolina lottery winner is lucky to be alive after his helicopter crashed and caught fire right on his front lawn. Back in October, Timothy Kniess' wife won the lottery a hundred thousand dollars on a scratch off ticket. Luck was definitely on their side again today when he was able to escape the crash with just a few scratches. Neighbors weren't surprised by the crash. They say they watched Kniess attempt to fly his Mosquito XE helicopter for weeks, just waiting for it all to g
May 3, 2018, 1:16 pm - Lottery News

IGT executive hired as NC Lottery chiefNews Story
A top leader at a gambling operations vendor was hired Tuesday to become the North Carolina Education Lottery's next executive director. The lottery commission voted unanimously to hire Mark Michalko, a vice president and managing director for International Game Technology's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The commission's search for a new lottery chief began soon after Alice Garland, the executive director since late 2010, announced last fall she would retire at the end of
Mar 14, 2018, 2:53 pm - Lottery News

Some N.C. Carolina Cash 5 lottery winners are due a little moreNews Story
The N.C. Education Lottery says 48 Carolina Cash 5 game winners received $4 less than they actually won. In Monday's drawing, 48 tickets matched four of the five winning numbers and should have won a prize of $256. Players with those tickets got $252, lottery officials said. The winners beat odds of 1 in 4,163. The mistake resulted from human error involving the calculations of what the pari-mutuel prize would be, lottery Executive Director Alice Garland said. With a pari-mutuel prize, the
Feb 14, 2018, 9:35 am - Lottery News

Will NC Lottery players move online and hurt retail stores?News Story
The N.C. Retail Merchants Association wants legislators to put the brakes on a proposal to offer online instant lottery games, arguing the move could harm stores that sell lottery tickets. The N.C. Education Lottery Commission has the proposal for online instant games on its Tuesday agenda; lottery spokesman Van Denton said the commission will vote on whether to ask vendors to submit proposals for how they'd provide the online games. The commission's Revenue Generating Committee, led by forme
Dec 4, 2017, 8:51 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery winner to give away his jackpotNews Story
An Army veteran from Statesville, North Carolina, plans to give his $250,000 lottery jackpot to help people battling substance abuse. Terry McClelland and his wife intend to use the proceeds from his lucky scratch-off ticket win to start a non-profit counseling center aimed at freeing people from their addictions his wife's lifelong dream. This is what I was put on this earth to do, McClelland's wife, also named Terry, told lottery officials. She is is pursuing her doctorate in psychology
Dec 1, 2017, 7:11 pm - Lottery News

Another NC woman wins lottery twice in same dayNews Story
For the second time in three weeks, a North Carolina woman had an amazing streak of luck when she purchased two winning lottery tickets in the same day. It happened Sunday when Michelle Shuffler of Granite Falls won $10,000 with one scratch-off ticket and $1 million with another, purchased 22 miles away. Granite Falls is about 65 miles northwest of Charlotte. The first ticket was purchased when she and her husband stopped at the Cubbard Express on Beecher Anderson Road in Lenoir. We do
Nov 15, 2017, 8:07 am - Lottery News

N.C. woman wins lottery twice in one dayNews Story
The odds of winning the lottery are pretty slim, but the chances of winning twice in a single day seem impossible. For North Carolina resident Kimberly Morris, this improbable event happened on Monday. According to a press release from the North Carolina Education Lottery, Morris bought a Diamond Dazzler scratch-off ticket with a possible $4,000,000 jackpot. She scratched off a $10,000 prize. The ticket was purchased at her local Harris Teeter store in Wake Forest. After collecting her pri
Nov 4, 2017, 8:25 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery director retiringNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery's top leader is retiring next spring, ending a stint with the agency that began before it started selling tickets more than a decade ago. The lottery announced Wednesday that Alice Garland will step down as executive director at the end of March. She became the lottery's second executive director in late 2010, succeeding Tom Shaheen. During her tenure, annual ticket sales increased by $1 billion to $2.4 billion in the past fiscal year, while the share earm
Oct 12, 2017, 10:45 am - Lottery News