When a convenience store didn’t have the lottery ticket a Midlands man wanted to buy, he shifted gears and picked out another game, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said in a news release. That choice,

LIBERTY, S.C. (WSPA) — What luck! An Upstate woman bought four lottery tickets, and all four were winners. The winner told SC Lottery officials that she stopped for a soda and spent $20 on $5 scratch-offs at the Stop-A-Minit #12 on West Main Street in Liberty.

A Myrtle Beach man won $30,000 in a lottery drawing from The South Carolina Education Lottery.

A South Carolina woman is celebrating a $250,000 lottery win, thanks to a supermarket clerk’s advice. Denise Henderson decided to try her luck when she stopped at a Publix grocery store in Goose Creek, the S.C. Education Lottery said Monday in a news release

Over the last 24 years, education funding in the state of South Carolina has benefited from $9.3 billion in lottery proceeds, with students at USC and Clemson receiving more than 440,000 lottery-funded scholarships and grants.