Article: Powerball gets off to wobbly start.

Byline: Mark Schreiner

May 31--Powerball got off to a slow, somewhat wobbly roll across Southeastern North Carolina on Tuesday, with technical glitches delaying tickets for some players.

Tickets for the big bucks, multi-state lottery were to have gone on sale at 5 a.m., but dispensing computers at about 1,100 locations were unresponsive, according to the N.C. Education Lottery. Tickets were selling by midday, and sales were expected to increase today in advance of the 10:59 p.m. drawing, the first one in which North Carolina will participate.

At Roy's Bait & Tackle on U.S. 421 North early Tuesday, clerks had no problems helping customers get ...

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