September 15, 2011 By NCEL
Clarence Harding, a truck driver from Clinton in Sampson County, plans to use the $100,000 prize he won on his Mega Bucks ticket to pay off his mortgage.
September 12, 2011 By NCEL
Durham resident Cheryl Weaver says she plans to put her winning into savings for the future. She's the second Durham resident in a week to beat the odds and win the Cash 5 jackpot.
September 8, 2011 By NCEL
Richard Sutton of Durham is one of two winners who split the Sept. 5 Carolina Cash 5 jackpot. "It was fun winning," Sutton said as he collected his share of the prize.
September 8, 2011 By NCEL
For the second time in less than nine months, a newspaper carrier from Scotland County has hit it big playing the lottery.
September 7, 2011 By NCEL
"I knew for years that I was going to win $1 million in the lottery," Ham said. "I told my family that. I’d tell anyone that would listen and nobody believed me. But they’ll believe me now.”
September 7, 2011 By NCEL
“I asked if they could verify that I had won,” Hink said. “The clerk said ‘Wow’ and then everyone in the store started asking ‘How much? How much?’ I called home and said I thought I was having a heart attack. Stuff like this doesn’t happen to us. It’s just a total shock.”
August 31, 2011 By NCEL
Diane Perkins, a case manager from Raleigh, purchased three N.C. Education Lottery scratch-off tickets on Tuesday. She scratched the first ticket, Jumbo Bucks, and won $15. The first of two $125,000 Casino Cash tickets revealed a $5 prize. Her lucky streak concluded when she won the game’s $125,000 top prize on the third ticket.
August 29, 2011 By NCEL
Cora McKee, a child nutritionist from Swannanoa in Buncombe County, picked up a penny in a parking lot last Tuesday. “This penny is a winner,” she recalls saying as she put the coin away for safekeeping.
August 24, 2011 By NCEL
The N.C. Education Lottery has received two new awards for its efforts to completely and clearly communicate its financial information to the public.
August 23, 2011 By NCEL
A $200,000 prize makes a brother-sister duo from Kings Mountain the most recent Cleveland County residents to win big playing Powerball.