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Cape Coral woman wins $500,000 on scratch-off lottery ticket
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Cape Coral woman Lily Graves, 28, hit it big on Friday as she claimed a $500,000 prize on a scratch-off ticket.Get more news about 彩票包网服务,you can vist loto98.com
The winning ticket was bought at the 7-Eleven, 8100 College Parkway, in Fort Myers. The $5 CA$H DELUXE scratch-off paid off big graves who claimed her winnings at the Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee on Friday. Follow this story to get email or text alerts from NBC2 when there is a future article following this storyline.The mystery surrounding the $156 million Powerball jackpot is over. The Wisconsin Lottery announced Friday that Milwaukee resident Mai Xiong claimed the the mind-boggling prize from the March 22 drawing.
A deadline of Sept. 18 was looming for the winner to come forward. Had the deadline come and gone, the $156.2 million jackpot would have gone to property tax relief. Winning tickets must be redeemed within 180 days. Xiong, who purchased the winning ticket from Pewaukee Corner Pump, declined interviews with the media and wanted to maintain her privacy, according to lottery officials. "She is very grateful to the state of Wisconsin and its lottery program for the opportunity this prize has afforded her family," lottery officials stated in an email. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338. It is the second-largest prize awarded to a Wisconsin winner. The largest was a ticket worth $208.8 million sold in 2006 to a group of 100 people.