SPARTANBURG, S.C. – A South Carolina couple won $200,000 with a lottery ticket after it was recovered from the trash. (Video above: Morning headlines from WYFF News 4) The wife scratched the $5 lottery ticket the couple bought at the Circle K on E. Main St. in Spartanburg and thought it was a loser. So she threw the ticket away. Her husband spotted the ticket in the trash, took it out and realized the mistake.