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Mooresville Man Buys Winning $100,000 Lottery Ticket At Walmart
"It's a bonus," William Stanley of Mooresville said of his $100,000 lottery win. Here's what he plans to do with the money.
MOORESVILLE, NC — A shopping trip at Walmart led to a $100,000 lottery win for Mooresville resident William Stanley.
Stanley bought the winning $20 "Gold Rush" ticket from a vending machine at the Walmart on Supercenter Drive in Kannapolis.
“Once in a while I’ll buy a ticket out of the machine and just grabbed one,” Stanley said, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery. “I waited until I left and scratched it and realized it was a winner. I was like, ‘Oh, cool!’”
Stanley claimed his prize, which was $70,756 after state and federal taxes, Monday at NCEL headquarters in Raleigh. It's going straight into savings, he told lottery officials.
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“It’s a bonus,” he said.
NCEL unveiled the $4 million Gold Rush lottery game in August. It has three top prizes of $4 million and six $100,000 prizes. As of Tuesday, one $4 million prize and two $100,000 prizes remain, NCEL said.
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