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The North Carolina Education Lottery has reported on a big win by an Edgecombe County woman on a Lucky for Life ticket.

Bernica Yelverton, of Princeville, tried her luck on a $2 Lucky for Life ticket and won a $25,000 a year for life prize.

Yelverton bought her lucky ticket using Online Play. She won her prize by matching all five white balls in last Wednesday’s drawing. The odds of winning that prize are 1 in 1.8 million. Yelverton claimed her prize at lottery headquarters and had the choice of receiving $25,000 a year for the rest of her life or a $390,000 lump sum. She chose the $390,000 lump sum and, after required state and federal tax withholdings, took home $278,851.

For details on how money raised by the lottery made a difference for education programs across the state last year, go to nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.

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