May 30, 2012 By NCEL
Earlier this month, Desire Kilmer came to Wake County to visit her father. Before heading home, she bought a $1 Carolina Cash 5 ticket at the Variety Pic-Up on N.C. 97 in Wendell.
May 29, 2012 By NCEL
Shawn Elder had bought tickets for several daily drawings as the jackpot grew to $554,932. For the May 28 drawing, he had one of two tickets to match all five numbers to win half of the jackpot.
May 25, 2012 By NCEL
For John Murphy of Laurinburg, an errand to the store and a $2 Powerball ticket made him the most recent North Carolinian to win $1 million playing the lottery.
May 21, 2012 By NCEL
Georgia Burton of Durham decided to try her luck playing Mega Bucks on Saturday, so she purchased four tickets. Later that evening she scratched off prizes on each one, including the game’s $100,000 top prize.
May 18, 2012 By NCEL
Gregory Grainger of Brunswick County said he plans to buy a house and save for retirement with the $255,979 he won playing the Carolina Cash 5 game.
May 16, 2012 By NCEL
Terry Stout, an employment consultant from Greensboro, said he plans to use the $1 million he won playing the new Powerball game to pay bills, save for the future and give his family some peace of mind.
May 15, 2012 By NCEL
Clariece Hammonds of Chadbourn in Columbus County became the second person to win the top prize in the N.C. Education Lottery’s $4,000,000 Cash Blowout game.
May 14, 2012 By NCEL
A new N.C. Education Lottery scratch-off game in stores Tuesday gives players the chance to win six prizes of $1 million instantly. 20X the Money is a $10 game that starts with more than $50 million in total prizes.
May 11, 2012 By NCEL
Had Renee Lail scratched off an instant prize on her original Wheel of Fortune ticket last fall, it would not have been eligible for entry in the second-chance drawing that sent her to Hollywood.
May 10, 2012 By NCEL
Thanks to a last-minute whim, Mary Lockey of Waynesville in Haywood County won the $186,960 Carolina Cash 5 jackpot the first time she ever played the game.