August 2, 2012 By NCEL
Tuesday night, James Weller gave his grandmother $20 to buy him a lottery ticket. The next morning, the Charlotte man found out he’d won the prize of a lifetime: $50,000 a year for life.
August 1, 2012 By NCEL
Beginning Oct. 1, a new rewards program will allow players of the N.C. Education Lottery to earn points with non-winning instant tickets to enter weekly and monthly drawings for cash and other prizes
July 31, 2012 By NCEL
Eliezer Vazquez, a clinical social worker from Raleigh, plans to pay off his car and student loans with the $250,000 prize he won in the March 30 Mega Millions drawing.
July 30, 2012 By NCEL
John and Kathy Walker, residents of Martinsville, Va., plan to pay medical bills with the $106,397 prize they won in the July 21 Carolina Cash 5 drawing.
July 27, 2012 By NCEL
Roger Rigney an air conditioner repairman from Greensboro and Pamela, a homemaker, sat together at their kitchen table when they realized they had won the $5 game’s top prize.
July 26, 2012 By NCEL
Whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $1 million at a store in Jacksonville has until 5 p.m. on Aug. 2 to claim the prize. The ticket, sold at the WilcoHess at 6995 Western Boulevard, matched all five white balls in the Feb. 4 drawing.
July 25, 2012 By NCEL
Had the Powerball number on Sarah Carpenter’s ticket been a 20 instead of a 21, she would have won the $110 million jackpot. Instead, the jackpot rolled to $121 million for Wednesday’s drawing.
July 25, 2012 By NCEL
James Stockton, a resident of Salisbury in Rowan County, plans to take a vacation with the $303,256 prize he won in the July 7 Carolina Cash 5 drawing. He matched all five numbers to win the jackpot.
July 25, 2012 By NCEL
As the N.C. Education Lottery set new records for sales and contributions to education in fiscal year 2012, it also saw 33 people win prizes of $1 million or more playing lottery games.
July 25, 2012 By NCEL
George Johnson, a retired college accounting professor from Greensboro, said he has played the same set of numbers based on his anniversary and family birthdays since the lottery started. His persistence paid off on July 20 when he matched all five white balls in the Mega Millions drawing, winning a $250,000 prize.