Woman wins

$1 million

COLUMBIA — An Orangeburg woman has won $1 million in a scratch-off game in the South Carolina Education Lottery.

Rosa Crawford, 44, bought a single, $10 ticket in the $100 Million Cash Bonanza instant game at a convenience store in Holly Hill, lottery officials said Wednesday.

Crawford is the second person to win $1 million with an instant ticket in South Carolina.

Rick Kumar, owner of the Quick Pantry, receives $10,000 for selling the winning ticket.

Board rejects

parole plea

COLUMBIA — A man serving a life sentence for the 1975 killings of a Greenville County deputy and the officer’s father has been denied parole by one vote.

The state parole board voted 4-3 in favor of releasing Charles Wakefield, 51, but state law requires at least five votes in cases involving violent crimes.

Two of the board members who voted in favor of parole noted that Wakefield had no disciplinary infractions in a 30-year prison record.

Wakefield was convicted in the Jan. 31, 1975, shooting deaths of sheriff’s Lt. Frank Looper, 34, and Rufus Looper, 57, in West Greenville.

Wakefield denied killing the men in a video feed to the parole board from Kirkland Correctional Institute in Columbia.

‘‘If this parole board decides to parole me today, will never be back in prison again, and I will never be coming back to the state of South Carolina,’’ he said Wednesday.