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Miami Herald
21-05-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
Powerball player kept checking ticket after big NC win. ‘It wasn't registering'
A Powerball player scored a huge prize — and couldn't stop looking at his winning ticket. 'It just, it didn't compute,' Michael Mica told the North Carolina Education Lottery in a May 20 news release. 'I had to keep checking it because it wasn't registering.' Mica had a lot to celebrate after stopping at a Shell gas station in Lexington, a roughly 20-mile drive south from Winston-Salem. While there, he bought a $3 Quick Pick ticket, meaning a lottery machine chose the numbers at random. It turns out, his ticket matched all but one number picked in the May 17 drawing, making it worth $50,000. Since he spent an extra dollar on the Power Play option, his prize rose to $100,000, McClatchy News reported. Though Mica got much richer, his ticket missed the $125 million jackpot prize by one number. His win came on a lucky night, when three other Powerball players in North Carolina scored $50,000 prizes, results show. 'I checked the website and saw that a couple people won in the drawing,' Mica told lottery officials. 'Of course, you always hope you are the one to win.' Mica, who lives in Lexington, kept $71,751 after taxes. He plans to put some of his prize money toward bills and add the rest to his savings. 'It will definitely help to have a rainy-day fund,' the lucky winner said. What to know about Powerball To score the jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338. Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state. Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online. Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
‘Didn't compute': Lexington man wins $100,000 after buying $3 ticket at gas station
LEXINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) — Michael Mica, of Lexington, bought a $3 Powerball ticket on Saturday and won a $100,000 prize, according to an NC Education Lottery news release. 'It just, it didn't compute,' he said. 'I had to keep checking it because it wasn't registering.' Yadkin County man wins $25,000 a year for life after buying $2 ticket at gas station: 'Don't have to worry about anything' Mica bought his winning Quick Pick ticket from Arcadia Shell on N.C. 150 West in Lexington. He matched the numbers on four white balls and the red Powerball to win $50,000. Because he bought a Power Play ticket, his prize doubled to $100,000 when the 2X multiplier hit. 'I checked the website and saw that a couple people won in the drawing,' Mica said. 'Of course, you always hope you are the one to win.' He arrived at lottery headquarters on Tuesday to claim his winnings. After required federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $71,751. Mica plans to use his winnings to pay bills and put the rest in the bank. 'It will definitely help to have a rainy-day fund,' he said. Watch lottery drawings on FOX8! Mega Millions airs at 11 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday. Powerball airs at 10:59 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The NC Lottery airs at 11:22 p.m. every night. You can also find the lottery results online on the FOX8 website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Record
07-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
West Lothian doctor responsible for creating successful group of nursing homes dies during family visit to India
Dr Nawal Kishore Bagaria reopened the former Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh An unassuming West Lothian GP who created a successful group of nursing homes built on an ethos of care for all, has died aged 82. Dr Nawal Kishore Bagaria was born in Pachamba, Bihar (now part of Jarkhand), in rural north India on February 5, 1943 he passed away on March 30 this year in Kolkata, India. He lived and worked in Livingston, and remained in West Lothian until just a few weeks before his death. He went on to completely remodel and reopen the former Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh as a private nursing home, which operated until 2011. The hospital opened a century ago in July 1925 but closed its doors as a maternity facility in 1988. Elsie Inglis had also been born in India. Dr Bagaria also pioneered and led the set-up of the Edinburgh Hindu Temple, which celebrated 10 years in April 2025. Nawal Kishore Bagaria was born to Shyam Sundar and Radha Devi Bagaria, who began trading Mica following its discovery in the open air coal mines in Bihar. He chose medicine as his path early on, and after concluding his schooling and college he became one of only the second intake of Raanchi Medical School students. On graduating he completed his internship at the prestigious Velore Christian Medical School, the only one of the 250 Raanchi graduates accepted. Whilst there he was involved in research that contributed to the design of the modern day cannula. In 1968 his application to work in the United Kingdom was accepted and with almost no funds he initially based himself, following an initial stay in the Indian YMCA, in a guesthouse in Hampstead Heath in London. Choosing hospital appointments with associated lodging he worked throughout the UK in London's Dulwich Hospital, Tredegar, Brighton, Birmingham and Newcastle. Although life was difficult at first as an Indian qualified Doctor he soon became appreciated and respected, and not only because he offered to work over Christmas and Easter breaks. Wishing to work within the community he became a GP in West Lothian, a position he held for 15 years and during which he became interested in elderly care. At his initial interview with the West Lothian council, he was asked what guarantee there was that he would stay in Livingston. He responded, by committing to raising his family there and to provide for the local community for the rest of his life. He worked there till three weeks before his passing. Dr Bagaria's interest led him to also working in the elderly care units at Bangour and St John's Hospital in Livingston where he saw for himself the need for residential accommodation for those unable to go home, as hospital beds were 'blocked' by those with nowhere to go. In 1988, Nawal and his wife, Dr Sheela, approached the Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) for a site with the intention of providing quality care and accommodation for older people unable to live at home, no matter their background or income level. This started a commitment to providing care to all, something which never left him. Peacock Nursing Home was the result of the LDC support, originally 40, then 80 beds, followed by Woodlands Nursing Home, which also had 80 beds, amongst the very first purpose-built accommodation in the Lothians. The Bagarias were able to add the former Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital to the group in the early 2000s, chosen in part because it was the first post as a Doctor that Sheela took up after their marriage in 1973 and subsequent move to Scotland. After Sheela's death it was a comfort to Nawal that he and his daughter Ambika were able to completely re-purpose and refurbish Elsie Inglis in time for its centenary this July. Throughout his career Nawal became well known in West Lothian and beyond for his provision of care to all, also providing employment for thousands over the years and supporting the community. READ MORE: West Lothian schoolboy sums up how it feels after win at international maths competition Following Sheela's request, Nawal provided the leadership vision for the setting up of the Edinburgh Hindu Temple and only stepped back as President in February this year. The couple saw the temple, not just as a religious entity but as a way to provide community, and welcome and support first generation Indians to Edinburgh and the surrounding area. Nawal continued to work full time within the care homes, ably supported by his daughters and remained a major presence within the organisation until his recent death. He was involved with plans to provide further local authority funded places when he became ill after attending a family wedding in India and died in Kolkata. He was the first member of the family to reach his eighties. Sheela predeceased him and he is survived by his daughters, Dr Jayshree MBE who has worked for the UK Department for International Development (now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) and the World Health Organisation, most notably in South Sudan and in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic and Ambika, a Qualified Chartered Accountant who is the managing director of the care homes company. Nawal also has two grandsons, Taran and Khailen who loved spending time with their Nanu.
CBC
03-05-2025
- CBC
Wife of motorcyclist killed in Highway 9 crash speaks out against impaired driving
Mica Orcullo-Supena set up about a dozen chairs in the living room of her North Kildonan home on Friday afternoon, arranging them in rows to face a makeshift altar with framed pictures of her husband and some of his favourite foods. The 28-year-old has held a prayer vigil at her home each night since last Saturday when her husband, 30-year-old Winston Supena, was killed in a crash as he rode his motorcycle just north of Winnipeg. The nine days of prayers are part of a Filipino cultural practice intended to help a person's soul immediately after their death, she said. The crash happened on Highway 9 and Mitchell Bay, in the rural municipality of St. Andrews, around 4 p.m. last Saturday, RCMP previously said. Supena's motorcycle collided with a three-ton truck as the truck was trying to turn westward down Mitchell Bay, police said. Mica says police told her that the 67-year-old man who drove the truck admitted to officers that he'd reversed the truck in front of Supena's motorcycle as he made the turn down Mitchell Bay, before Supena crashed into his vehicle. Supena was pronounced dead at the crash site, RCMP said. Hours before the fatal crash, Mica says she'd had brunch with her husband and their four-year-old daughter in Winnipeg, after he finished an early shift at his job as a health-care aide with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Supena left the restaurant early to meet up with his motorcycle buddies while his daughter finished eating, she says. "And that was the last time we saw him." 'My life shattered' Police said on Monday the truck driver's licence was suspended under The Highway Traffic Act. They believe alcohol was a factor in this collision, but no charges have been laid. RCMP say their investigation into the crash is ongoing. "We're devastated. We lost the one we love, for what? A bottle of alcohol?" Mica said. "That decision changed not only his [life], but all of our lives." Mica, who works as a massage therapist, said she was in a session with a family member when someone messaged her to call one of her husband's motorcycle buddies, who told her that Supena had been in an accident and was receiving CPR from paramedics. "I think, at that time, my life shattered," she said. 'My life shattered,' says widow of motorcyclist killed in Manitoba highway crash 2 hours ago Duration 1:51 The widow of a motorcyclist who died in a highway crash in St. Andrews is speaking out. Winston Supena, 30, was riding on Highway 9 last Saturday when he collided with a three-ton truck in the RM of St. Andrews. He was pronounced dead at the scene. RCMP say the truck driver had his licence suspended and believe alcohol is a factor. She called Supena's friend again shortly after, as she got stuck in traffic while rushing to the crash site from south Winnipeg, and had the friend ask paramedics whether a helicopter was coming to take her husband to the hospital. "A couple seconds later, you hear something in his voice, and his friend says … 'they're putting a white cloth on Winston,'" she said. "I'm not stupid. I know what a white cloth means." She never made it to the crash site, and went to her parents' home instead. "I just broke down. I think I cried the rest of the day," she said. "I still cry every day, because he's no longer coming home. My kids no longer have their dad." 'Using Winston's story as the lesson' The couple married less than two years ago, after spending a decade together, Mica said. She remembers him as an avid motorcycle enthusiast who would "help anybody in a heartbeat." "That's why he's a health-care aide. It's his passion to help people," she said. Their two young children — a seven-year-old son and four-year-old daughter — understand that their father was in an accident with his motorcycle, but they're too young to understand that he's not coming home again. Mica wants her husband's death to serve as a reminder to drivers that they should keep an eye out for two-wheeled vehicles on the road. She says a vigil will be held at the crash site on Saturday, a day which comes during Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. She hopes both events will help people remember Supena's legacy, which she says was filled with kindness, warmth, and a love for motorcycles. "We're using Winston's story as the lesson, but he would have wanted to be able to make a difference, and this is how I'm going to help my husband do that, for his memory to live on," she said.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Mica Miller's ‘list' behind recently filed coercive control bill, new push for action
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Mica Miller's family and others are speaking out about a bill in the state senate last week to strengthen protections for victims of coercive control or domestic violence. Republican state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch of Murrells Inlet, , says it was because of Mica and her family that the bill is seeing light again. Several have been filed in past years — the most recent one in 2021. But never made it out of a committee. Mica's family says they believe if one was passed then, she would still be here today. 'Mica did not have to die for Mica's law to be written,' Mica's sister Abigail Francis said. Sunday marked one year since Mica Miller's death. Robeson County officials ruled her death a suicide after she was found at Lumber River State Park with a gunshot wound to her head. Allegations of abuse by her husband, Myrtle Beach area pastor John-Paul Miller have gained national attention. Police reports state Mica told officers she was being tracked and harassed on multiple occasions. Since then, it's prompted many like attorney Regina Ward who represented Mica to seek stronger laws. 'I think that people need to be paying attention,' Ward said. 'So, whenever that next turnover comes to who you're going to vote for, vote for someone who's going to be protecting your daughters, that's going to pass laws that protect your sister, that'll protect your mother.' The bill aims to protect victims beyond just physical abuse, using what Mica experienced as the foundation. Here is what the previous bill outlines: isolating a person from their friends and family depriving a person of basic needs monitoring a person's time monitoring a person via online communication tools or using spyware taking control over aspects of a person's everyday life, including where the person may go, who the person may see, what a person may wear, and when a person may sleep depriving a person access to support services, including medical services repeatedly insulting a person, including expressing the person's worthlessness enforcing rules and activities that humiliate, degrade, or dehumanize the person forcing a person to take part in criminal activity, including shoplifting and neglect or abuse of children, to encourage the person's self-blame and prevent disclosure to authorities financial abuse, including control of finances and only allowing a person a punitive allowance threats to hurt or kill threats to a child threats to reveal or publish private information or extort the person or a member of the person's family in retaliation by legal or other means assault rape preventing a person from having access to transport or from working Several states including California, Connecticut and Hawaii have adopted 'coercive control' laws, while similar efforts are pending in Florida, Maryland, New York and Washington, according to the group Americas Conference to End Coercive Control. Mica's sister Abigail Francis and Ward spent months reaching out to lawmakers, including Sen. Luke Rankin, who's also chair of the judiciary committee where the last bill died. Francis says she had an appointment with Rankin set up last June, but it was canceled because he says in an e-mail 'he wasn't aware of it.' He goes on to say if a bill is passed in the senate, he will assign it to a subcommittee for consideration. Ward says she's reached out to his office 12 times via email and called his office on several occasions since June and has only heard back once, recently. 'We elected you to be in that position and you are taking advantage of it and completely dismissing a very important thing that's going on in your community and that's sad,' Francis said. Unlike others, she says Goldfinch's office answered. While the recently filed bill is almost the same as the one in 2021, Goldfinch says all bills need work and can be amended. 'There's quite a few situations in the law that aren't accounted for what we call loopholes, right. Loopholes in the law, especially for a couple that's in a relationship, especially even more so for a married couple,' he said. Goldfinch says since he filed the bill, he's had many victims reach out to him making him more aware of the issue. He says he expects the bill to reach the judiciary committee in January and pass next year. Mica's sister and father, Michael Francis, say they think Mica would be proud to see her family working to protect future victims. 'She would be in my seat,' Francis said. 'I would be at home doing all the research stuff, and she would be the one talking to you. Whether she was here or not. And this was brought to our attention, we would still be doing it.' News13 reached out to Sen. Rankin multiple times in the last few months have not heard back. Mica's family asks instead of posting on social media to advocate for stronger domestic violence laws, reach out to your legislators. They encourage anyone to call, email or send letters. * * * Adrianna Lawrence is a multimedia journalist at News13. Adrianna is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia, and joined the News13 team in June 2023 after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University in May 2023. Keep up with Adrianna on Instagram, Facebook, and X, formerly Twitter. You can also read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
