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North Carolina healthcare delivery driver almost faints after winning $150,000 lottery jackpotNews Story
N.C. Lottery shifts toward new prize claim safety measures By Kate Northrop James Joyce works as a healthcare driver, delivering medicine to hospitals and clinics. Every day after work, he routinely picks up a Cash 5 ticket with EZ Match on his way home. In the morning following the April 21 draw, he checked his numbers and discovered that he was the winner of the $149,814 Carolina Cash 5 jackpot. I almost fainted, Joyce remarked. He purchased the winning ticket at the Crossroads Ex
May 12, 2020, 9:11 am - Lottery News

NC couple married 70 years has weekly lottery tradition that finally paid offNews Story
For James and Maxine Hilliker of Lumberton, North Carolina, a tradition of playing the lottery together led to a $768,862 Cash 5 jackpot win a week before their 70th wedding anniversary. Our wedding anniversary is next week and today is my 90th birthday, said James after receiving the big check. I can't even believe this is real. I just can't believe it. For the Hillikers, playing Cash 5 together is a weekly tradition that has become a special part of their morning routine. We go to
Feb 3, 2020, 11:09 am - Lottery News

Mover who plays the lottery in every state finally hits the jackpot in North CarolinaNews Story
A stop in North Carolina paid off big for a mover from New York. Iffetayo Adjele of Bronx, N.Y. said he's tried his luck all across America, but it wasn't until he stopped in North Carolina that it paid off with a $100,000 Cash 5 jackpot. I work for a moving company, Adjele said. Every week, every day, I'm some place different. I play the lottery in every state I'm in, and hope that one day I'll get lucky. The lucky day came Friday, Nov.1, when Adjele stopped at the TravelCenters of A
Nov 27, 2019, 8:44 am - Lottery News

Veterans Day turns jubilant for 70-year-old Army vet after he wins lottery in NCNews Story
A 70-year-old Army veteran found himself counting cash on Veterans Day, after he won more than a quarter of a million dollars in the North Carolina Education Lottery. Ernest Dodson bought the Cash 5 ticket at Sons of Nie, an Asian market in Greensboro, and realized the next morning that it was worth $276,688, lottery officials announced on Veterans Day. He paid $1 for the ticket. I about fell over, Dodson said in the release. I'm tickled to death that I can be debt free. Federal an
Nov 11, 2019, 12:34 pm - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery's newest draw game has first drawing tonightNews Story
Tonight marks the first drawing for the newest Idaho Lottery game, 5 Star Draw. 5 Star Draw is an Idaho-only draw game with a jackpot prize that begins at $250,000 and continues to grow until there is a winner. 5 Star Draw is the first new in-state Draw Game launched by the Idaho Lottery since Idaho Cash in February of 2017. Tickets for the game are only available from licensed Idaho Lottery retailers. Sales for 5 Star Draw tickets began on Sunday, September 29, 2019. Our players re
Oct 1, 2019, 6:42 pm - Lottery News

Korean War veteran wins lottery five times in one drawingNews Story
Luck struck North Carolina Navy veteran Add Lancaster not once, but five times, when he won five lottery prizes in one Cash 5 drawing, including the $163,634 jackpot. I wanted to shout, 'Hallelujah!' when I saw what I won, Lancaster said, sticking his arms in the air. I've been lucky my whole life, but I can't believe this. The Korean War veteran's good fortune started when he stopped at Wissam Brothers Inc. on Fort Run Road in his home town of Pikeville and bought a Cash 5 ticket for Mo
Sep 27, 2019, 8:33 am - Lottery News

NC man almost falls out of fishing boat upon learning of lottery winNews Story
Danny Bizzell bought a Cash 5 lottery ticket on July 12, gave it to his wife and went fishing. He was in the middle of a lake when his wife, Sandra Dickinson, called to tell him he had won a $792,655 jackpot. I almost fell overboard, Bizzell said Monday. I told her, 'Are you freaking kidding me?' Bizzell bought the winning ticket at the Food Lion on North Rogers Lane in Raleigh, using the same numbers he's played for almost 13 years. When I got my first Cash 5 ticket, I had the ma
Aug 15, 2019, 8:18 am - Lottery News

North Carolina lottery winner says his pencil picked the winning numbers for himNews Story
A man who won the lottery in North Carolina says his pencil picked the winning number for him. Samuel Manley, a school bus technician from Littleton, stopped at Bert Ammond Country Caf in Pleasant Hill on July 29 and bought a $1 Carolina Cash 5 ticket after telling his wife he was feeling lucky, the lottery said. I told her, 'I'm going to buy the winning Cash 5 ticket', he said, according to the lottery. Instead of picking numbers that are special to him like he usually does, he tried
Aug 6, 2019, 1:46 pm - Lottery News

Lucky CT man wins $100,000 lottery prize for second timeNews Story
Oh baby, I can't believe I did it again A Connecticut man just won a $100,000 lottery, barely a year after winning the same jackpot. Bruce Rosa won the top prize in the Connecticut Cash 5 on July 5. He previously won $100,000 prize in the same lottery on April 27, 2018. Oh baby, I can't believe I did it again, Rosa said, according to a press release from the Connecticut Lottery. Of the 4,000 winning tickets this week, Rosa's was the only one with all five numbers matching. The Sta
Jul 15, 2019, 8:57 am - Lottery News

NC Cash 5 lottery winner has one week left to claim $487K prizeNews Story
Have you checked all your old lottery tickets? The winner of a nearly $500,000 prize has one week left to claim it before their luck permanently runs out. That's what North Carolina lottery officials are announcing as the claim to a $487,105 Cash 5 prize won in January is set to expire on July 8. Let's get the word out that this Cash 5 jackpot is still waiting to be claimed, said Mark Michalko, executive director of the N.C. Education Lottery, in a news release. Whoever had the great luck
Jul 1, 2019, 9:37 am - Lottery News