NC's biggest lottery winner, who faced drug charges soon after win, gives nearly $700k to church

Marie Holmes, age 26, a single mother of four young children, snagged North Carolina’s biggest lottery jackpot in March – and took a lump sum payment of $127 million from the Powerball win. “The first thing she promised was to tithe – or give a tenth of her winnings to charity,” a press release from Ruth Sheehan with the Francis Law Firm said.