Wrong turn, lucky biscuit lead man to $250,000 lottery jackpot
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Kevin Vaughn of Mayodan, N.C., said taking a wrong turn on his way to a work site led to a stop for breakfast, and the lucky biscuit helped him win a $250,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
March 8 (UPI) A North Carolina man said taking a wrong turn on his way to a job site and stopping for a lucky biscuit led him to a $250,000 lottery jackpot.
Kevin Vaughn of Mayodan told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he and a coworker were on their way to a job site when they took a wrong turn and ended up stopping at the Berry Patch Market and Grill in Lawsonville for breakfast.
The odds may seem about equal to winning a big North Carolina Education Lottery jackpot, but Gastonia resident Billy Rooks hopes that if someone has found approximately 150 lottery tickets in a Ziplock bag that they ll come forward and return them to him.
The 77-year-old retired Navy veteran has been buying lottery tickets for more than 20 years, specifically the Powerball and Carolina Cash 5 games. Suffering from terminal cancer, he hopes to to win a jackpot to build a nest egg for Veronica Rooks, his wife of 52 years.
He secures his tickets in a plastic bag, but recently lost the unchecked tickets that he had accumulated over the past three months.
I just started shouting, woman says after routine change ends with NC lottery win Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer
Mar. 3 A Guilford County woman got lucky after making a last-minute decision to switch up her routine for buying North Carolina lottery tickets.
Barbara Johnson of Gibsonville says she actually went cheaper that day, buying a $5 ticket in the 20X The Cash game at the Quick N Easy on Burlington Road in Greensboro, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a news release. I usually buy the $10 tickets, but something told me to buy the $5 ones this time, she said in the release.
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CONCORD, N.C. (News Release) – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and state health officials announced a plan Wednesday to allow outdoor sports venues, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, to host events with fans up to 30 percent of their capacity, beginning Feb. 26. The announcement paves the way for a limited number of fans to be part of the action when NASCAR’s best return to America’s Home for Racing for the first-ever tripleheader weekend – featuring the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Alsco Uniforms 300 and historic 62nd running of the Coca-Cola 600 – at Charlotte Motor Speedway May 28-30.