Another Moore County Winner of $100,000 Lottery Prize

Moore County has been a hot spot for winners in the North Carolina education lottery, and a Southern Pines man is extremely happy about that.

Timothy Sanders of Southern Pines grabbed $100,000 on a $1 Cash 5 ticket Sunday night. That's the third winner this month alone in Moore County. Samphant Vanamathis won $100,000 on a Cash 5 drawing. And Steven Richter of Jackson Springs won $100,000 on a scratch-off ticket.

“My heart was racing,” Sanders said. “I had to put the ticket down and go to the kitchen to get some water before I went back and checked it again.”

Sanders got his Quick Pick ticket at the Southern Pines Mobile Mart on Central Drive.

“I was really, really excited,” Sanders, a 47-year-old plumber, said. “I really was shocked.”

After taxes, Sanders took home $71,010 on Monday, and he said he has a pretty good idea what he'll be doing with his money.

“I’ve been wanting a truck forever,” Sanders. “Probably a Chevrolet.”

Cash 5 is one of four lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets through a retail location or Online Play, either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night.

Tuesday’s jackpot is $110,000. The odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598.

Ticket sales from draw games such as Cash 5 make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how $4.8 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Moore County in 2021, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.

It's not a shocking revelation that Americans are generally obese, but it may be a bit surprising to learn which city in North Carolina is among the fattest in the country.

Our good friends over at WalletHub.com set out to rank the top 100 United States metro markets, and see which of them is the fattest.

And with the pandemic keeping us indoors for the most part the last couple of years, it's not surprising that things are getting a bit worse.

WalletHub put a whole bunch of numbers together in 19 key indicator categories to get the rankings, and according to the numbers, Winston-Salem is technically the fattest metro city in North Carolina, coming in at 16 overall.

Technically, the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro of South Carolina also includes a part of North Carolina, but we're not taking that into account for these purposes.

On a national level, there's a recurrent theme for the cities at the top (which is the bottom) of this list. They are all southern cities, and happen to mostly be centered around excellent food as well. The "top" spot went to McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas. The city on the border of Texas and Mexico has some of the best mixture of barbecue and Mexican food you'll ever find.

As for the healthiest cities, well there's a theme there too. Most of them are major urban cities, in cultural hotspots, with healthy living cultures. No. 100 (so, the most healthy) on the list is the Boston metro area.

So what are the fattest cities in North Carolina and across the United States? Let's take a look:

Of note, these rankings include just metro areas, so smaller cities like Fayetteville aren't included on this list. Our numbers sort of fall in with Raleigh.