- A last-minute decision to purchase a lottery ticket paid off big for a North Carolina woman who won more than half-a-million dollars, lottery officials said.
- Stephanie Israel, 39, of Guilford County, said she purchased a lottery ticket for the Carolina Cash 5 drawing online just four minutes before the lottery closed. The following day, she woke up to an email saying she was the winner of $501,444.
- “It was late at night, and I was lying in bed, and the spirit just told me to go online and buy one,” Israel told the NC Education Lottery. “There were only four minutes left until the drawing.”
