Siblings Ivan Barrett and Beverly Berryman are an example, having pledged to split the jackpot if either won anything in the North Carolina Education Lottery. Beverly Berryman paid $5 for a Cash King ticket at the Prince Mart on Wilson Road in her hometown of Sanford,

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A stop for gas led a Brunswick County man to win big in a new scratch-off game. Angelo Collins stopped for gas at the Circle K on North Howe Street in Southport when he decided to buy a Cash Payday ticket. The $30 scratch ...

Winning the lottery is usually sold as a simple equation: match the numbers, cash the check and move on with your day. But for North Carolina resident Carl McCain, an $800 Mega Millions win came with an unexpected lesson in reading the fine print.

IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Monday’s Powerball drawing produced a $1 million prize on a ticket bought in Mooresville, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. The $1 million prize was the largest prize won nationally in the drawing.

A Raleigh man’s lottery ticket wasn’t a winner. Then, a second-chance contest turned his luck around. “This is wild,” Ray Abbott told North Carolina Education Lottery officials after winning $1 million in the Merry Million Second Chance drawing.

A Pennsylvania man got one heck of a souvenir when he bought a winning lottery ticket while visiting North Carolina. Stanley Konat won $410,432 off a Cash 5 ticket that cost just $1, the N.C. Education Lottery said in a March 10 news release.