{"id":117112,"date":"2026-08-18T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117112\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:57:09","slug":"new-bern-man-wins-100k-powerball-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117112\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern man wins $100k Powerball prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) &#8212; A Craven County man won a $100,000 prize from a $3 ticket recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Robert Bascom-Cohane said that he couldn&#8217;t even speak when he checked his online lottery account. He had matched four balls and the Powerball during the drawing, winning him $100,000. Bascom-Cohane got his $3 ticket using Online Play in the August 5 drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The odds of Bascom-Cohane&#8217;s win are 1 in 913,129.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It was a total surprise,&#8221; said Bascom-Cohane. &#8220;All I could say was &#8216;Oh, my God, oh my God, oh my God,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After state and federal tax withholdings, he brought $72,011 home. He said that he plans to use his winnings to pay bills, remodel a bathroom, install hardwood floors and visit family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WNCT.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnct.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WNCT.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) &#8212; A Craven County man won a $100,000 prize from a $3 ticket recently.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[56930,104,108,56931],"class_list":["post-117112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bascom-cohane","tag-bern","tag-craven-county","tag-online-lottery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117118281009344515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117112","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=117112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}