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N.C. town abuzz over $88M Powerball lottery jackpot winNews Story
Powerball ticket worth $88 million was sold in Charlotte area There was one question just about everybody in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, wanted answered Sunday: Who bought the winning Powerball ticket worth $88.1 million? The N.C. Education Lottery announced the only winning ticket from Saturday's drawing was sold in Kings Mountain, a small town 30 miles west of Charlotte. But officials said they do not know the identity of the winner, or where that person lives. Everybody is ta
Jun 22, 2009, 10:03 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery store owners, employees winning big and oftenNews Story
Some of the same people who sell North Carolina Education Lottery tickets are winning big and winning often and that makes some people suspicious. Of the lottery retailers winning prizes, some are amassing significant jackpots repeatedly $100,000, $300,000, and $500,000 prizes dozens of times a year. Is it just dumb luck? Or do these insiders have some kind of inside track? And what is the state doing about it? A regular lottery player first brought the pattern of retailers winning the
May 1, 2009, 2:50 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery snatches back some prizesNews Story
Some lottery winners have no luck. Before anyone can claim a big prize, state law requires lottery officials to first check on whether the winner owes the government any money. Lots do. Since the first ticket went on sale in North Carolina in March 2006, the lottery has collected $1.3 million in back taxes, delinquent child support, overdue student loans and other debts. For some winners, the hit is a few hundred dollars out of thousands. For others, the debt wipes out their whole prize
Apr 28, 2009, 10:37 pm - Lottery News

Man plays same number on 20 lottery tickets, wins $90KNews Story
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

N.C. Pick 4 lottery game starts next weekNews Story
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

Poll: 58% of N.C. residents tried lotteryNews Story
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

N.C. lawmaker critical of Gov's move to take lottery funds from schoolsNews Story
North Carolina State Representative Carolyn Justice says the governor's decision to take lottery funds has left some school districts in distress. The $50 million in the Education Lottery Reserve Fund was supposed to pay for school construction costs, some for this school year. The Pender County Republican says that's going to hurt local school districts. If those counties already issued bonds planning on that money to pay their debt, they're in trouble right now. And this hasn't even
Mar 23, 2009, 3:03 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Supreme Court keeps lottery law in placeNews Story
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

Proposal would rename N.C. education lotteryNews Story
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

Cable worker wins $50,000 a year for life from N.C. lotteryNews Story
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