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N.C. Lottery chief adding new games to overcome revenue shortfallNews Story
The head of the N.C. Education Lottery Tuesday urged patience for critics who say the games have fallen short of their first-year sales goal. Executive Director Tom Shaheen said he hopes to spark sales this spring with two new games and a new twist on a third. Lottery sales are expected to miss their $1.2 billion goal by $200 million. Obviously I'm in a business to raise money, and I want to raise as much as we can, Shaheen said after a Charlotte luncheon. But to raise $1 billion the
Feb 1, 2007, 1:39 am - Lottery News

Charlotte couple wins $200,000 Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is worth $131 million John Mark Isaacs and his girlfriend had been eyeing new cars for some time. She would like a yellow, two-door Pontiac Solaris. Isaacs wants a Mini Cooper in black or blue. It was like a dream, 'I sure would like to have that,' he said of the cars. Now, I can. On Saturday, Isaacs, 41, and his girlfriend won $200,000 when one of the dozen Powerball tickets the couple bought had five winning numbers. Isaacs, a warehouse manager f
Jan 10, 2007, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery sales fall shortNews Story
North Carolina's lottery sales have tumbled since July, and the game's director predicts that under the best scenario the lottery will generate $75 million less for education than projected in the current state budget. The sales of numbers games, such as Powerball and Cash 5, are up slightly since July, but scratch-and-win ticket sales have plummeted. Scratch, or instant, tickets are supposed to provide the growth in lotteries nationally, but in North Carolina, sales shrank from $52 milli
Dec 26, 2006, 10:46 am - Lottery News

Year in review: N.C. LotteryNews Story
The start up of North Carolina's first-ever lottery is meant to help fund education across the state. When State School Board Chair Howard Lee bought the very first scratch-off lottery ticket in March, he hailed it as a great day for education. The tickets will be winners for each child in the state of North Carolina who will benefit from the proceeds from the lottery, Lee said. Fifty percent of proceeds go to reducing class size and early education. Forty percent helps school constructi
Dec 20, 2006, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Players Robbed At S.C. StoreNews Story
Half a dozen people playing the lottery were forced to lie on the floor late Monday while two men held guns on them at the Lotto Supercenter on U.S. 21 in York County, South Carolina. Sheriff's investigators said robbers wearing masks entered the store just before 10 p.m. and took money from three registers, as well as from every customer in the store. Detectives are studying the surveillance video that shows the robbers running in and forcing everyone down. Det. Tim Hager said because
Dec 6, 2006, 8:21 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winnerNews Story
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning. Powerball officials say one winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn Wednesday night was sold this week. That ticket was sold in North Carolina, although there is no word this morning where that ticket was purchased. The winning numbers were 2, 8, 9, 12 and 19, with the Powerball number of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 3. This is the first Powerball jackpot won w
Nov 30, 2006, 10:06 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery retailers caught selling to minorsNews Story
Fourteen Western North Carolina lottery retailers were cited for selling tickets to minors in the state's first test of the underage law, according to state Alcohol Law Enforcement Division records. A two-month investigation done in August and September randomly checked 348 retailers statewide. Of those, teenagers were successful 98 times in buying $1 scratch-off tickets. Thirty-eight of those stores are in Charlotte, 33 in Raleigh, 13 in Greensboro and eight in Greenville. The state's
Nov 27, 2006, 7:54 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery ticket agent guilty in fraud caseNews Story
Agent lied to customer about a winning ticket A Sylva, North Carolina, woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Jackson County Superior Court in connection with lottery fraud. Jodi Gibson, 23, was charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretenses and sentenced to a minimum of six months and a maximum of eight months in prison. This is the first incident of its kind since the lottery's inception in March. Other attempts at fraud usually involved people trying to fool the system,
Nov 15, 2006, 11:09 am - Lottery News

N.C lottery retailers caught selling tickets to minorsNews Story
In August and September, teenagers working for North Carolina state law enforcement officers walked into more than 300 places where North Carolina lottery tickets are sold. They had been given strict and careful instructions. Try to buy a ticket. Carry your real ID. If asked about your age, don't lie. At 91 stores more than 28 percent of the locations checked clerks sold them tickets, even though it is against the law to sell one to a person younger than 18. Such violations were fou
Nov 7, 2006, 1:11 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery to launch Christmas-themed gamesNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery is putting another game into play Tuesday. The first $10 instant ticket game in North Carolina is reaching stores. The new game is part of a trend in the lottery industry in that it's a holiday-themed scratch-off game that officials hope will boost sales. Lottery director Tom Shaheen says more games at $10 or above are expected, including the possibility of a $20 instant ticket game, which Shaheen says may be attractive to people who don't always play the lottery
Nov 3, 2006, 7:27 am - Lottery News