North Carolina high school students can help fight prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths by entering a video contest sponsored by Attorney General Roy Cooper and the NC Department of Justice.

To educate young people about the dangers of prescription drug abuse, Cooper is partnering with the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, the North Carolina Parent Resource Center, and the Governor’s Institute on Substance Abuse to sponsor a student video competition.

Cooper is asking students to create public service announcement videos on the topic of teen prescription drug abuse.  All students enrolled in grades nine through 12 in North Carolina are eligible to enter.  

Beginning Thursday, January 3, and lasting through Tuesday, January 8, Food Lion shoppers may help their local schools earn up to $20,000 by collecting box tops from specially-marked General Mills products.

The “Return to School” program offers customers the opportunity to purchase any six specially-marked General Mills products at any Food Lion store, and collect the box tops to earn money for their local school. Food Lion also participates in events throughout the year to support the Box Tops for Education program.

General Mills has administered the Box Tops for Education program for 17 years.

UNION COUNTY, NC - Jeff Field of Waxhaw in Union County says he often dreams that he has won the lottery. “I probably have three to four dreams a week of a $100,000 winner,” he said. “I can even describe the ticket.”

But what happened to Field on Friday morning at the Fill Good on Cuthbertson Road in Waxhaw was no dream.

Field bought three instant tickets and won $2 on the first one, then scratched his way to the top prize of $100,000 with a $5 Carolina Black ticket.

He and his wife were soon on their way to lottery headquarters to collect their prize.

Field said he plans to use his winnings, worth $68,001 after state and federal taxes were withheld, to pay bills, buy a new four-wheeler and a log splitter, and then tuck the rest away into savings.

As of Tuesday morning, one top prize remains to be claimed in the Carolina Black game.