Search

N.C. lottery director names security office directorNews Story
A forensic document examiner for the State Bureau of Investigation has been named director of the security office for the N.C. Education Lottery at an annual salary of $92,000.Jerry C. Carter, who worked for the SBI for 20 years, also will be eligible for a bonus if the lottery starts by April 5, officials said in a news release Monday.He's the first employee hired by the lottery's executive director, Tom Shaheen.Carter has worked as a forensic document examiner for the SBI since 2001. Prior to
Dec 13, 2005, 6:24 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery commissioner says games are 'on track'News Story
Bob Farris said North Carolina is on track to begin a state game in April.Bob Farris, a member of the North Carolina Lottery Commission, said he suspects the lottery will first offer the scratch-and-win style games by spring, and then be able to join in the bigger lotto-style games by the summer.New state lottery director Tom Shaheen has begun working toward making the games a reality. Farris called Shaheen, who has directed lotteries in other states, a top flight man. He's done this before. H
Dec 9, 2005, 8:48 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery plans expensive personnel movesNews Story
Shaheen to hire 18 deputies and assistants at pay up to $190,000Tom Shaheen won't be the only lottery official who makes more money than the governor.Shaheen, the executive director of North Carolina's new lottery, said yesterday that he's getting ready to hire six deputy executive directors who could make as much as $190,000 their first year.An additional 12 assistant directors could make as much as $156,000 under the plan, which the N.C. Lottery Commission approved.At their highest level, the
Dec 9, 2005, 7:06 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery director expects multi-state game by JulyNews Story
The director of the North Carolina lottery says that state will likely offer its first lottery games by April 5th and may play in the one of the multistate jackpot lottery games by July.Director Tom Shaheen said yesterday that he doesn't know if North Carolina will join Powerball or Mega Millions, the two national lottery games.Mega Millions is played in Virginia and eleven other states.Shaheen says his top priority is hiring a staff that eventually will number 200 to 300 employees. Another prio
Dec 7, 2005, 10:09 am - Lottery News

N.C. Gov. answers lottery questionsNews Story
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley got his lottery for Christmas, and now he's looking at how to make it even better next year.The second-term Democratic governor, who sat down with reporters Tuesday to talk about the year's accomplishments and struggles, highlighted some steps to secure lottery money and advance education. He also discussed the prospect of another campaign -- for the White House.Q. Are there any changes you want to make in the lottery? At some point, we need to look at a constitut
Dec 7, 2005, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery leaders offer look at futureNews Story
As several N.C. lottery commissioners arrived in the lobby of Tennessee Lottery headquarters Friday, they saw the bright side of their job: a $1 million winner with his poster-board check.The winner, country music drummer Bill Caylor, not surprisingly said he felt like a million bucks, one commissioner said.Minutes later, Tennessee Lottery officials spelled out the downside of launching a lottery. Starting Monday, the N.C. commissioners face a 120-day blitz of hiring, buying, signing up ticket
Dec 5, 2005, 8:39 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery panel trip may violate open meeting lawNews Story
The North Carolina State Lottery Commission's planned trip to Tennessee appears to violate open meetings laws, some lawyers argue, although the commission chairman disagrees.At least five commissioners are going to Nashville, Tenn., on Friday to tour the Tennessee Lottery headquarters. They canceled their regularly scheduled meeting in Raleigh, but didn't send out notices of the Tennessee event nor post a notice in its regular meeting place in the Department of Administration building in Raleigh
Dec 2, 2005, 9:20 am - Lottery News

N.C. resident speaks out against computerized lottery drawingsNews Story
Editor: The following letter appeared in the News Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) this morning, November 23, 2005. The Lottery Post staff urges other North Carolina residents to do as this bright woman did, and speak out on this important issue. Don't sit back and risk the possibility that your state will use a computer instead of real lottery drawings!I'm very happy that North Carolina has joined the rest of the East Coast in adopting a state lottery, and I'm excited to start playing. However, as
Nov 23, 2005, 11:33 am - Lottery News

Lucky Break: Co-workers win lotteryNews Story
Pooling resources can sometimes pay off in a big way just ask the 14 co-workers at United Plastics Corp. in Mount Airy, North Carolina, who won $250,000 in the Nov. 15 Mega Millions drawing by matching five of six numbers.The group machinists, production workers and some of their supervisors picked up a check yesterday from the Virginia Lottery. Each will get about $13,000 after taxes, money they say will be used to pay off bills, take long-awaited vacations and make Christmas morning extr
Nov 23, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery startup will be no April Fool's jokeNews Story
North Carolinians can expect to play the lottery on or before April 5 four months after Tom Shaheen, the new lottery director, officially begins his job in Raleigh.Shaheen and Charles Sanders, the lottery chairman, on Tuesday finalized the deal that will bring Shaheen to North Carolina from New Mexico, where Shaheen has been chief of the lottery since 2000.Shaheen will start in Raleigh on Dec. 5, from an office location still to be determined. Shaheen said he'll focus first on requesting propo
Nov 23, 2005, 9:15 am - Lottery News