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$350K Winning Lottery Ticket Sold in Decatur
A Shell station sold the ticket in the Taxes Paid instant game, say lottery officials.
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A Decatur gas station sold a winning Georgia Lottery instant ticket with a $350,000 prize.
Shell Food Mart, located at 570 DeKalb Industrial Way, sold the winning ticket in the instant game $350,000 Taxes Paid.
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The winner, Derrick Spence Sr. of Oxford, claimed his prize Feb. 2 at the Georgia Lottery’s District Office in Duluth.
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Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16 billion to the state of Georgia for education.
All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs, including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Pre-K Program. More than 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
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