It’s a beater, but hey, it’s done pretty good,” the Iowa man said of his beloved “loud, red and rusty” truck that he drove through a snowstorm to claim his prize.

A trucker passing through North Carolina hauled in a huge $5 million win after buying a lottery ticket this past weekend. The trucker, Melchor Aguilar, stopped at the Kangaroo Express on East Swannanoa Avenue in Randolph County and bought the winning 200X The Cash scratch-off ticket for $30.

A winning $100,000 Cash5 ticket has yet to be claimed for Thursday, Jan. 2’s drawing, according to the CT Lottery.

More than one quarter of the $1 million or more tickets sold were Jersey Cash 5, which led the way with 14 big winners. The biggest Jersey Cash 5 win came in October when someone who bought a $2 ticket at a deli in Port Monmouth in Monmouth County won a jackpot of nearly $2.4 million.

A Mega Millions lottery ticket bought in the Twin Cities narrowly missed hitting the jackpot Tuesday but was still good for $1 million, officials said. The winning ticket for the multistate game was purchased at Cub Foods in Blaine just off Hwy.

The Minnesota Lottery says the $1 million ticket was sold at the Cub Foods Blaine South store at 585 Northtown Drive, which earns a $5,000 bonus for selling the ticket. The winning Mega Millions numbers for the Dec.

A lucky New Jersey lottery player won the $657,679 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot Thursday night. The New Jersey Lottery announced Friday that a Burlington County ticket matched the five numbers to win. The winning ticket was sold at Murphy’s Market on Medford Lakes Road in Tabernacle.