North Carolina man, recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, wins $250,000 lottery prize
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Richard Beare collected his big prize from the winning scratch-off ticket Monday. (North Carolina Education Lottery)
After learning that he was diagnosed with cancer, a North Carolina man received a bit of good news — that he'd won a quarter of a million dollars in a lottery scratch-off.
Richard Beare, of Charlotte, said he "rarely" plays the lottery but won a $250,000 prize -- after he'd recently found out he had stage 4 liver cancer.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I only stopped because my wife asked me to get a Powerball ticket since the jackpot was so high," he told the North Carolina Education Lottery. Beare was at a Quik Trip store two weeks ago and decided to buy four Carolina Black scratch-offs while he was there.
Beare said that his fourth scratch-off was the big winner. He said he noticed the ticket had matching numbers, and asked his wife what that meant.
"She said it meant I won a price. I told her, 'Well, I guess we just won $250,000 then,'" Beare said. "She was in shock and just kept looking back and forth to me and the ticket."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The lottery stated on its website that Beare claimed his prize on Monday in Raleigh, and after tax withholdings, he received $176,876.
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And what does Beare plan to do with the money?
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I want to travel while I can still enjoy myself," he said. "My wife has always wanted to go to Italy, since that's where her descendants are from. Now I can take her."