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A daily look at some of The News & Observer’s headlines on Sept. 21 in past years.
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On this day in 1988, North Carolinians in search of financial luck crossed the border into Virginia, which had just started a lottery. North Carolina did not have a lottery at the time.
A Raleigh man won $5,000 for his trip from the Old North State to the Old Dominion. Several North Carolinians visited Virginia towns, including the lucky winner who bought his ticket at S&J Grocery in Cluster Springs, a few miles over the border. He bought 10 $1 lottery tickets — and the winning ticket was the second one he scratched off.
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In 1926, the Wake County coroner was indicted for embezzlement. The coroner, who was also Raleigh’s justice of the peace, was indicted by a grand jury and charged with embezzling $175 intended for a bail bond for a man charged with driving while intoxicated.
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