Could it be you? Lucky players win big in the NC lottery — but haven’t come forward
Two North Carolina lottery players could be getting big windfalls.
That’s because their lucky tickets were worth up to $1 million after this weekend’s drawings, the N.C. Education Lottery posted on Twitter.
But officials say winners hadn’t come forward as of Monday morning.
One person’s luck started at Catamount Travel Center in Whittier, a community roughly 55 miles southwest of Asheville, according to a news release. The lottery says the customer was one of three people in the country to win a $1 million Powerball prize.
Now, officials encourage lottery players who went to the store along U.S. 441 to “check their tickets.”
Across the Tar Heel State, someone else stopped at the Sun-Do Mayfair convenience store in Lumberton. The person bought a ticket for the Carolina Cash 5 lottery game and won the jackpot prize of $768,862, according to the news release.
Winners have about six months to claim the prizes, lottery spokesperson Van Denton wrote in an email to McClatchy News.
This story was originally published January 27, 2020 at 12:17 PM with the headline "Could it be you? Lucky players win big in the NC lottery — but haven’t come forward."
