Over $168,000 lottery prize still unclaimed

If you bought a Carolina Cash Five ticket in Apex last year, there could be $168,716 coming to you.

An unclaimed ticket purchased for the September 2nd lottery drawing expires a week from Monday. The ticket holder has until 5:00 p.m. on March 2nd to claim the prize.

The five white balls for that drawing were 5-9-17-23-35.

If the prize remains unclaimed, the state lottery will give half of the money to the education fund, and the other half will go back into prizes for future games.