Man plays same number on 20 lottery tickets, wins $90K
A North Carolina man has a knack for picking the winning number for Virginia Lottery drawings.
The Virginia Lottery said Wednesday that Steve Granger of Henderson, N.C., won $90,800 in Sunday night's Pick 4 drawing by playing the same number combination, 5-1-1-7, on 20 tickets.
Sixteen tickets each won $5,000 because Granger wagered exact order on them. The other four tickets each won $2,700 because he wagered 50/50 on them.
Granger said if he has a feeling about a number, he'll play it ...
Apr 16, 2009, 9:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Pick 4 lottery game starts next week
A new four-digit daily numbers game for the North Carolina Education Lottery will begin next week.
Top prize for the Carolina Pick 4 game starting April 17 will be $5,000. Players can either choose a number or have a sales terminal pick a random number.
The lottery already has the Carolina Pick 3 and Carolina Cash 5 games. North Carolina also participates in the twice-weekly multistate Powerball game.
Pick 4 drawings will air at 11:22 p.m. on television stations that already show the ot ...
Apr 9, 2009, 8:03 pm - - Lottery News forum
Poll: 58% of N.C. residents tried lottery
Survey finds N.C. play similar to national average; no increase in gambling addiction seen
Even in Bible-Belt North Carolina, a majority of Tar Heel adults have played the state lottery, according to a study released Tuesday.
Fifty-eight percent of North Carolina adults have played the lottery since it was created three years ago, said the first poll conducted for the N.C. Education Lottery Commission.
North Carolina's rate of lottery play is similar to the national average, even though ...
Mar 25, 2009, 1:42 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Supreme Court keeps lottery law in place
Lottery barely avoids being deemed illegal
The North Carolina Education Lottery can still operate after the state Supreme Court deadlocked Friday over whether the votes creating the games were lawful.
Three of the seven justices agreed Friday the lottery law was unconstitutional and three others upheld the law. A seventh justice, Mark Martin, had recused himself from oral arguments in the case in September and did not vote.
The 3-3 decision means a March 2008 state Court of Appeals ruli ...
Mar 23, 2009, 2:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
Proposal would rename N.C. education lottery
Move in response to Gov. Perdue taking education dollars from lottery
Some state lawmakers aren't happy with where some North Carolina Education Lottery dollars are headed and they're trying to do something to change it.
Mecklenburg County State Rep. Thom Tillis cosponsored House Bill 518, which would strip the education portion out of the lottery name.
Tillis said he and others formed the bill because Gov. Beverly Perdue said she plans to pull $50 million to $70 million from the Educat ...
Mar 17, 2009, 7:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Cable worker wins $50,000 a year for life from N.C. lottery
For more than 30 years, Gilbert Steve Proctor has installed telephone cable.
The Edgecombe County resident said he is not quitting his job at Lambert's Cable Splicing Co. any time soon after hitting the North Carolina lottery's first winning Lifetime Riches scratch-off ticket, which pays out $50,000 a year for life.
I'll always be the same person, he said as he sat in the convenience store on Thursday where lottery officials recognized his win.
On Monday, Proctor bought the ticket at t ...
Mar 13, 2009, 10:45 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery revenues redirected away from education
Lottery opponents warned it would happen; they were right
State lawmakers voiced concern today over a transfer of proceeds from lottery-ticket sales from school construction to the state's general fund.
Gov. Bev Perdue's office also clarified details of the transfer today, a day after school systems learned they would lose this quarter's state funding for school construction.
Perdue's office said today that the funding being withheld, $37 million from lottery profits and $5 million from ...
Feb 27, 2009, 9:36 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery turns record profits for state
Economic times on Wall Street are tough these days, but not so for the North Carolina Lottery.
North Carolina's lottery has made its largest transfer of money to state education programs in the game's 2 -year history.
The North Carolina Education Lottery said it sent $99.8 million to a dedicated state fund Wednesday morning. The money is used for class-size reduction and pre-kindergarten initiatives, public school construction and college scholarships.
The lottery began selling tickets ...
Oct 22, 2008, 10:43 pm - - Lottery News forum
UNC Charlotte student wins $1M lottery jackpot
Mary Baker, a UNC Charlotte freshman nursing student, is one of the lucky winners of a scratch-off lottery game with a jackpot of $1 million.
The lucky student paid $20 for two scratch-off tickets at the Bloom grocery store near campus.
On the first ticket she won $10.
But on her second try, the ticket revealed that she was the big winner.
Monday, officials with the North Carolina Lottery presented her with a ceremonial check. Baker will receive 20 annual installments of $50,000.
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Sep 8, 2008, 5:29 pm - - Lottery News forum
Law creating N.C. Lottery to be reviewed by state's Supreme Court
North Carolina's highest court will decide whether the Legislature approved properly a bill that created the state's education lottery.
State Supreme Court justices scheduled oral arguments Monday in a lawsuit originally filed by taxpayers who sued state and elected officials.
At issue is whether 35 percent of the price of each lottery ticket constitutes a tax. If so, the state legislature violated the North Carolina Constitution when it approved the lottery in 2005 because it did not foll ...
Sep 8, 2008, 2:59 pm - - Lottery News forum
