LAURINBURG — Donnie Leviner of Laurinburg had a gut feeling he should buy a lottery ticket and his intuition paid off with a $2 million win.

Not everyone plays fair. There are folks out there with sticky fingers, just itching to snatch your hard-earned cash. And they have some crafty ways to try to fool you.

The ribbon was cut this weekend for Laurinburg’s newest organization, the Vita Choices Pregnancy Center. Vita Choices offers a variety of services from pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling and support, infant supplies, parenting classes and more. It’s located at 405 Biggs St. in Laurinburg. For additional information, visit www.vitachoicespc.com.

LAURINBURG — The Scotland County Health Department held its second annual Spring into Summer Health Fair on Saturday.

LAURINBURG — The Scotland County Health Department performed 10 inspections of area restaurant locations during the month of April.

SULPHUR, Okla. — When a monster nighttime tornado came roaring into the southern Oklahoma town of Sulphur, Sheila Hilliard Goodman, a grandmother and casino worker, hunkered down inside Raina’s Sport Lounge with about 30 other customers in the popular downtown hangout.

CHARLOTTE — A shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in North Carolina began as officers approached a home to serve a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm, police said.