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Marine veteran scratches $10M lottery prize while watching footballNews Story
A North Carolina Marine Corps veteran and his wife won a $10 million lottery prize while watching a football game. Monte Hukill and his wife, Gage, of High Point, North Carolina, were the first to win the top $10 million prize in the Extreme Millions scratch-off game. Hukill bought the winning scratch-off ticket at the Fairway One Stop on Greensboro Road in High Point, then headed home to watch Thursday night football. I would scratch a number and then look back at the game, Hukill tol
Oct 4, 2017, 10:11 pm - Lottery News

Florida Irma evacuee and mother of three wins $10K lottery in North CarolinaNews Story
A Florida woman who evacuated from Hurricane Irma with her three children won $10,000 on a lottery scratch-off ticket while sheltering in North Carolina. Tiffany Hatfield, 28, left her home in Ocoee, near Orlando, late Friday night with her three young daughters to drive to a friend's home in Virginia. Hatfield moved to Florida from Connecticut in June to live closer to family while her husband, a member of the U.S. Navy, is stationed in Hawaii. Hatfield did not plan to evacuate until her
Sep 14, 2017, 11:55 am - Lottery News

N.C. man sentenced in Jamaica-based lottery schemeNews Story
A 25-year-old man from Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for his role in a Jamaica-based lottery fraud scheme. Jahnoy Davis, 25, pled guilty in federal court in Charlotte in January to one count of money laundering conspiracy. On April 3, former Charlotte-area mail carrier Antonio Terrell Brown pled guilty to mail theft charges in the scheme. He awaits sentencing. Court records show Davis recruited people to receive the packages and conspi
Apr 26, 2017, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Keno lottery games coming to North Carolina this fallNews Story
North Carolina's state-run lottery is expanding its gambling options with a new game starting this fall that could attract younger players and satisfy the thirst of legislators seeking more money for education initiatives. The North Carolina Education Lottery Commission agreed Tuesday to offer the draw game called keno, which is already offered by lotteries in 16 other states. It's billed as an amusement for people who like to socialize in bars, restaurants, truck stops and other settings.
Mar 15, 2017, 7:54 am - Lottery News

N.C. woman hits Cash 5 jackpot for second timeNews Story
A North Carolina woman plans to live debt-free this year, after she won a Cash 5 jackpot in the state lottery on Thursday, her second Cash 5 win over the years. Lisa Williard of Harmony first beat the odds in 2008, when she won $363,041, lottery officials said. Thursday night, she and two other people won the $1,065,423 jackpot. It's like being struck by lightning twice, Williard told lottery officials. What are the odds? The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 749,398, official
Jan 17, 2017, 12:03 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery chief refutes state studyNews Story
By Alice Garland, executive director of the N.C. Education Lottery One benefit of a state lottery is that as North Carolinians win the lottery, their prize money is subject to the collection of any debts owed to state and local governments. The lottery makes every effort to ensure all debts are collected from every prize, $600 or more. No exceptions. So far, more than $11 million that would have gone uncollected has been collected from lottery prizes. That's a benefit to all whom the money
Dec 26, 2016, 10:32 am - Lottery News

Study: N.C. Lottery scammers have cheated state out of $7 millionNews Story
Lottery scammers have cheated North Carolina out of an estimated $7 million in back taxes and delinquent child support since 2009, a non-partisan arm of the General Assembly said. At the request of a state legislator, the Fiscal Research Division teamed up with a UNC-Chapel Hill statistician to calculate the loss following an Observer investigation that found dozens of players winning the lottery so often that their luck defies logic. Highlighted in the Observer's series was a lucrative se
Dec 7, 2016, 3:55 pm - Lottery News

Play at the Pump slow to take off in NCNews Story
In January 2015, the North Carolina Education Lottery joined an effort to make convenience stores more convenient for potential lottery players by allowing them to play the lottery digitally while filling up their gas tanks. Play at the Pump, a cloud-based payment platform, allows people to play Mega Millions, Powerball and Cash 5 without going into the store. With the swipe of a debit card and a $1 transaction fee, players can get their numbers for the next drawing. Linq3, an Atlanta soft
Dec 3, 2016, 9:16 pm - Lottery News

N.C. man safeguards winning lottery ticket inside of paint sprayerNews Story
When most people win the lottery, their first thought is how to spend the money. When Christopher Gueho of Fletcher won $750,000 playing Jumbo Bucks, his first thought was where to hide his ticket. I was a nervous wreck, Gueho said. Gueho, a maintenance worker at a retirement home, wanted to keep his ticket in a safe place until he could claim his prize. At first I thought I'd store it in the spare room at my mom's home, Gueho said. Then I thought maybe the freezer, because no one wou
Nov 8, 2016, 8:28 am - Lottery News

Trying to teach husband not to buy lottery tickets, woman wins $1 millionNews Story
An Asheville area woman hit it big, and you might say she got schooled by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Glenda Blackwell, of Leicester, North Carolina, claimed her $1 million prize Monday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. Blackwell said she wanted to teach her husband a lesson about buying too many lottery tickets. Blackwell said she was irritated by her husband's request to buy some Powerball tickets, so she decided to get a Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket for herself.
Oct 24, 2016, 7:05 pm - Lottery News