Search

NC lottery to begin Pick 3 midday game in springNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery wants to begin a midday numbers drawing early this spring. Lottery executive director Tom Shaheen says the Pick 3 drawing would be performed identically to the numbers drawing held every night. The midday drawing would be held Monday through Saturday. Shaheen says an extra daily drawing would raise more revenues while giving the lottery another opportunity to attract players. Shaheen didn't give an exact start date to lottery commissioners hold
Dec 6, 2007, 10:25 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery sales up, but misses projectionsNews Story
North Carolina lottery ticket sales fell short of projections in the past few months, but officials say conditions are improving. One of the lottery's holiday-themed games, $1 Holiday Cash, is about to sell out of its 6 million tickets. The holiday raffle, in which players buy a limited number of tickets for cash drawings, is outpacing sales of similar raffles in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and South Carolina. In recent weeks, sales of new games appear to be up. N.C. lottery director Tom
Dec 6, 2007, 8:45 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery searches out more storesNews Story
Amid sluggish sales, officials hope to beef up the number of outlets Griswold's Family Produce sells honeydew and dreams. The combination produce stand and old country store south of Monroe sells apples to zucchini, homemade ice cream and, now, N.C. lottery tickets. Pick up a bag of golden delicious and a chance to become a millionaire. Griswold's is one of the newest, and less typical, retail outlets for Powerball or scratch-and-win tickets. It's also the sort of high-traffic, well-loc
Nov 23, 2007, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Opponents of lottery say 'I told you so'News Story
A database consultant alleges the N.C. Lottery didn't deliver the money promised By Frank Koconis The N.C. Education Lottery has been in operation for barely a year, and so far the state has seen little benefit from it. The promised boost in education funding is much smaller than expected, and for certain programs, nonexistent. Even worse, some of the ominous predictions of those who originally opposed the lottery appear to be coming true. The lottery simply isn't bringing in nearly as
Sep 19, 2007, 1:35 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/nc-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the North Carolina Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any North Caroli
Jul 4, 2007, 9:03 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery Millionaire Raffle sells outNews Story
If you haven't gotten a North Carolina Lottery raffle ticket, you're out of luck. Less than a week before the Fourth of July drawing, the state sold out of its entire stock of Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle tickets. Instead of selling paper tickets from a roll, retailers sold 500,000 numbers through the lottery's computer network. With four grand prizes of $1 million, a $20 ticket will carry a 1 in 125,000 chance of winning the top prize. For comparison, the odds of buying a winning mult
Jul 3, 2007, 6:27 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery foe confident that lottery will be ruled an illegal taxNews Story
By Steve Ford, News Observer Bob Orr has an agreeably youthful look about him, and not just because he's four days younger than I (a trivia item once called to his attention). Maybe it's only my imagination, but these days there seems to be even a hint of mischief in his smile as if he were a kid who had just poked a stick into an ant hill and was enjoying the confusion. If Orr prevails in his latest legal venture, lots of Raleigh's political ants will be running in tight circles.
May 29, 2007, 9:20 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery chief gets raise, standing ovationNews Story
North Carolina Lottery director Tom Shaheen didn't just get a raise last week that keeps him at the top of the pay heap among non-university state employees. He got a sustained, standing ovation from his bosses, the nine-member lottery commission. Shaheen's salary will jump to $246,750 annually as of June 1, a 5 percent increase. He's also getting a one-time payment of $5,781 to make up for several months he had gone without a raise, commissioners said. Among non-university employees (whic
May 29, 2007, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Lottery dream shattered for N.C. coupleNews Story
Randolph and Sandra Whitehead planned to get out of their small house, buy a car they could depend on and pay their bills. After all, they had just won $250,000 in the North Carolina lottery. But those dreams came crashing down when their road to riches took a sudden U-turn. On May 1, Randolph Whitehead bought a scratch-off ticket at the Rocky Mount BP station on Centura Highway. They had the surprise of their lives. Me and her looked at it together, Randolph said. I put on my glasse
May 26, 2007, 10:51 am - Lottery News

Is the lottery a tax? N.C. appeals court hears argumentsNews Story
The profit from the sale of lottery tickets in North Carolina is really a tax on the state's residents, which means the law that created the games was passed unconstitutionally, attorneys for a group of taxpayers argued Tuesday before the state Court of Appeals. The fundamental criteria is that the revenue is going to the general benefit of the public, Robert Orr, the taxpayers' lawyer, told the three-judge panel. The lottery was sold as a revenue-raising proposition to raise money for edu
May 22, 2007, 8:55 pm - Lottery News