NC Woman Wins $1M Lottery Prize After Buying $30 Ticket
WGHP-TV (Greensboro, NC)
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Rose Pinkney, of Fayetteville, found herself the latest winner of a $1 million Colossal Cash prize, according to an NC Education Lottery news release.
She bought her winning $30 ticket from the Speedway on Yadkin Road in Fayetteville.
Pinkney claimed her prize Friday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh.
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She had the choice of taking her prize as an annuity of $50,000 a year for 20 years or as a lump sum of $600,000.
Pinkney chose the lump sum and, after state and federal tax withholdings, took home $424,509.