One month into a mostly mask-less North Carolina, most individuals and businesses appear to have settled into a "don t ask, don t tell" vaccination approach.
CLEMMONSÂ â The line, a living, breathing thing, swelled each time a new customer set off chimes by pulling the front door open.
One by one, the hardcore, daily devotees and what-the-heck occasional players flowed throughout the week into Carltonâs Tanglewood convenience store.
They came to plunk down hard-earned cash for a chance to win stupid, life-changing and sometimes, life-wrecking money.
The odds of hitting all the numbers in either the Mega Millions or the Powerball lottery are next to non-existent. But the chance exists; some lucky person in Maryland won $731.1 million Wednesday night. And somebody has to eventually win the Mega Millions jackpot, which stood at $970 million at midday Thursday.