RALEIGH – Frank Tanzi of Rock Hill, S.C. won $100,000 on a Mega Bucks ticket he bought for $5 at Sam’s Mart on Scott Futrell Drive in Charlotte. After required state and federal withholdings, Tanzi received a check for $69,251.
Tanzi is the second player to win the top prize playing Mega Bucks since a new-look version of the game started in August. Robert Daniel of Oxford in Granville County was the first. Eight top prizes remain to be claimed in the game.
Ticket sales will make it possible for the lottery to achieve its goal of raising, for a third straight year, more than half a billion dollars for education. For totals to programs in all 100 North Carolina counties, click on the “Where the Money Goes” page on the lottery’s website.