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    North Carolina woman wins second six-figure lottery prize on $1 ticket in less than a year

    By Patrick Reilly,

    5 hours ago

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    A lucky North Carolina woman won nearly $350,000 off a lottery ticket this week — her second six-figure prize in less than a year.

    Cathy Noe scored a $346,088 jackpot off a $1 Cash 5 ticket she purchased from the C Co Mini Mart on US 70 in her hometown of Newport, about 90 miles north of Wilmington.

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    Her ticket matched all five numbers in the Aug. 29 drawing to win the jackpot — a 1 in 962,598 chase, according to lottery officials .

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    Noe has hit it big on two $1 lottery tickets in the last year. Audrey Richardson / USA TODAY NETWORK

    She claimed the prize at the North Carolina Lottery headquarters in Raleigh on Friday.

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    After federal and state taxes, she took home $247,456 in cash.

    Noe had previously won a $100,000 jackpot.

    On Tuesday night, a Mega Millions ticketholder won the jaw-dropping $800 million jackpot after purchasing a ticket at a gas station outside Houston, Texas. The winner has not come forward publicly.

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