NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A headache turned to a $100,000 win for one Hampton woman.
According to the Virginia Lottery, Dakota McNeill stayed home from work due to a headache. She headed to the Newport News Food Mart to get some Tylenol. While there, she bought a lottery ticket.
McNeill went home, took the medicine and scratched the ticket.
“I looked at it,” she said. “I switched my glasses. My knees got wobbly.”
McNeill had just won $100,000. The odds of winning the top prize for the 10X the Money ticket, the ticket McNeill bought, are 1 in 2,366,400.