A man from North Carolina, who won a $10 million lottery payout, has said he plans to retire and give a cut of his new fortune to charity. ABC11 reported that Theodore Duncan, a mechanic from Granville County in North Carolina, became a millionaire overnight after picking up a $30 Colossal Cash ticket at a local Mini Mart. He explained that he picked up the scratch card by chance after carrying out a routine errand. "Left home. Went to carry the trash out to the landfill. I thought, I'm going to buy me a ticket," the lottery winner said as he collected his check in Raleigh. Duncan told assembled lottery employees and members of the press at the check presentation ceremony at the Education Lottery headquarters in the Northern Carolina capital that he had a special ritual when completing the scratch card. First the new millionaire scratched off the top of each circle to confirm he had a match. Then he would scratch off the section below to reveal the prize money. When he saw the dollar sign, he knew he'd won a cash prize. "I said well at least I won my money back on the ticket. I scratched it off and it was $10 million. I just said—I looked at myself and said, 'I won. I won. I won,'" Duncan explained. He said he was newly retired to the amusement of the onlookers at the ceremony. "I just retired. I've been working since I was about 15 years old. I just retired," the 52-year-old said when asked if he was still working, adding that he hoped someone deserving replaced him in the job he had enjoyed. "That's one reason I retired. Somebody else needs a job; hopefully they'll get it, because I had a good job, very good job. I worked for a great company," he explained. After taxes, Duncan will take home $4,600,000 in a lump sum payout. With the money he plans to buy a new home with a pool, nice gifts for his kids, brothers and grandchildren. He also plans to give $100,000 of his winnings to St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. The hospital, founded in 1962, focuses on catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. In 2017, the free hospital cost $2.8 million a day to run.<doc-sep>Richard Beare cashed in his winning ticket on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina. (CNN) — A North Carolina man and his wife are about to embark on a trip of a lifetime thanks to winning big on a scratch-off lottery ticket. Richard Beare of Charlotte took home the top prize of $250,000 from a $5 scratch-off game called Carolina Black. “I recently got diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer,” said Beare in a statement from the NC Eduction Lottery. “I want to travel while I can still enjoy myself. My wife has always wanted to go to Italy, since that’s where her descendants are from. Now I can take her. ” Beare stopped at a convenience store two weeks ago to purchase a Powerball ticket his wife wanted. While inside the store, he also decided to test his luck on some scratch-off tickets. “I rarely play the lottery,” said Beare. “I only stopped because my wife asked me to get a Powerball ticket since the jackpot was so high.” Beare, a retired automotive mechanic, stood inside the store and scratched off the four tickets he bought. He couldn’t believe what he saw as he scratched off the last ticket, so he asked the clerk to double check it. “When I saw that I had matching numbers, I asked her, ‘What does it mean if I match the numbers?’ She said it meant I won a prize,” said Beare. “I told her, ‘Well, I guess we just won $250,000 then.’ She was in shock and just kept looking back and forth to me and the ticket.” Beare claimed his prize on Monday at the North Carolina lottery headquarters in Raleigh and took home $176,876 after taxes. The Carolina Black lottery ticket launched early March and has four top prizes of $250,000. Two top prizes remain, according to lotto officials.<doc-sep>
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. WOMAN WINS $150,000 LOTTERY AFTER PLAYING THE SAME NUMBERS 30 TIMES "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." The lottery stated on its website that Beare claimed his prize on Monday in Raleigh, and after tax withholdings, he received $176,876. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP And what does Beare plan to do with the money? "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."