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WAKE COUNTY, N.C. -- A $127,000 lottery prize is helping a Wake County bus driver buy a new home. "I was planning to get a new home anyway," Katrice Evans said, "so this makes it a bit better." Evans, who has been driving school buses for 23 years, picked up her winning $5 Blizzard Bingo ticket at the Food Lion on N. Raleigh Street in Angier this week. "Unbelievable," said Evans, of Willow Spring, as she collected her prize. "I still don't believe it." After taxes, she took home $89,899. She said she will also use that money to pay off a car loan.

Feb. 18—A Wake County school bus driver tried her luck on the lottery — and won a big prize. Katrice Evans was on a grocery run when she bought a progressive jackpot ticket worth $127,063, the N.C. Education Lottery said Thursday in a news release. "I still don't believe it," Evans told officials when she claimed her prize. Evans' good luck started with a trip to the Food Lion supermarket in ...