North Carolina woman wins $10K, then $1M on lottery tickets in same day

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has won two lottery prizes on the same day.

Local media report that Kimberly Morris of Wake Forest scratched off two North Carolina lottery tickets on Monday, winning $1 million on one of the tickets and $10,000 with another.

Morris thought things were going well when she bought a ticket at a grocery store Monday afternoon and scratched off the $10,000 prize. She went to the lottery headquarters in Raleigh to claim her prize.

On the way home, she stopped and bought another ticket. It was worth $1 million.

She chose to take the lump sum on the $1 million ticket, which was worth $417,012 after taxes.