{"id":117072,"date":"2026-08-18T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117072\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:44:10","slug":"new-bern-man-couldnt-speak-after-winning-100000-with-powerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117072\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern man couldn\u2019t speak after winning $100,000 with Powerball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Craven County man was left speechless after winning a Powerball prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The North Carolina Education Lottery has announced that Robert Bascom-Cohane, of New Bern, has won a $100,000 through Powerball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bascom-Cohane bought his $3 ticket using Online Play and randomly checked his account, completely surprised he won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t even speak,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He took home $72,011 after required taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He said he plans on using his winnings towards bills, home renovations, and a trip to see family.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. RALEIGH, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,108,107,56916,56917,2283],"class_list":["post-117072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-craven-county","tag-new-bern","tag-powerball-drawing","tag-prize","tag-win"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117117758409407774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}