A Fayetteville woman won last night won the $50,000-a-year-for-life top prize from a North Carolina Education Lottery game.
Darlene MacQuaide beat out nine other finalists, including Joseph Burleson of Winston-Salem, for the big prize.
Burleson won $1,000 as a consolation prize. The awards for the finalists ranged from $1,000 to $25,000.
The lottery held five preliminary drawings to select finalists for the grand-prize drawing. The finalists last night at WRAL-TV studios in Raleigh all randomly selected an oversized $130 Million blockbuster ticket replica and while the cameras were rolling, simultaneously uncovered their prize.
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