N.C. couple claim $110 million jackpot

? So where do two of America’s newest multimillion-dollar lottery winners eat lunch to celebrate? Try the Steak n Shake.

Norman and Deanna Shue went to the burger joint Thursday after finding out they had won half of Wednesday’s $221.5 million Powerball jackpot. They wanted to claim the prize but couldn’t because state offices were closed for New Year’s Day.

The construction project manager from Concord, N.C., and his computer-programmer wife can take $110.75 million over 30 years or an immediate total of $60.1 million, before taxes.

The holder of the other winning ticket, sold in York, Pa., had not come forward Friday.

The Shues said they were not sure what they would do next beyond getting some financial and legal advice and changing their phone number.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” a shell-shocked Deanna Shue said.

Norman Shue had stopped by a store and bought 20 tickets to the multistate lottery Wednesday morning, letting the computer pick his numbers. The Shues did not watch the drawing and did not even check their numbers until around lunchtime the next day.

They hid the ticket in a cabinet so their cats could not get to it, Norman Shue said. They moved it from cabinet to cabinet throughout the day, he said.

The Shues have no children. He is 33; she is “almost 30.”

They said they had not thought much about whether they would keep their jobs.

Norman and Deanna Shue, of Concord, N.C., hold their Powerball lottery check for 10 million. Norman Shue bought the winning ticket Wednesday in Clover, S.C. The other winner of the 21.5 million jackpot has not come forward.