Woman wins $200K in lottery

DURHAM -- A Durham woman has won $200,000 by playing Powerball in the N.C. Education Lottery.

Lottery officials reported Monday that Lucy Hanson of Durham was on the way to visit her mother when she decided to stop at the Kangaroo Express on Erwin Road in Dunn to buy a Powerball ticket for the Nov. 15 drawing.

The ticket Hanson brought matched the numbers of all all five white balls drawn. Hanson told lottery officials she plans to splurge on a day at a spa with her winnings, and then put the rest in savings.

Lottery officials also reported that a Robeson County man. Khairalla Aziz of Fairmont, won $478,953, the top prize in the Dec. 26 “Carolina Cash 5” drawing when his ticket matched all five numbers drawn. He purchased his winning ticket at Mr. G’s Convenience Mart on Iona Street in Fairmont.

In the Saturday, Jan. 10 Powerball drawing, three North Carolina tickets matched four out of five white balls plus the Power Ball and are worth $10,000 each. These tickets were sold at Wilco on Richlands Highway in Jacksonville, Petro Express on West North Main Street in Waxhaw, and Sea Merchants, Inc. on Cape Fear Boulevard in Carolina Beach.

No one matched all five white balls plus the Powerball. The jackpot for the Wednesday drawing is an estimated $146 million.