A lighthearted text from a co-worker led a man to learn that he had won $1.2 million after playing the California lottery. On November 5, the night of Election Day, Michael Chavez woke up in the middle of the night for the results rather than checking the drawing for his MegaMillions ticket.

Jacqueline Mangus, who works as a nurse in Moneta, won $1 million in the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 29 news release. “I was tickled to death,” she told lottery officials.

A nurse in Bedford County has win a $1 million prize in Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle. Jacqueline Manges told lottery officials she was getting ready for work when she saw on TV that a ticket bought in Moneta was the winner,