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July 12, 2010
 James Driscoll of Jacksonville, North Carolina, was paying bills via the Internet when he remembered he had some Cash 5 tickets from the Virginia Lottery. He clicked over to the Virginia Lottery’s site to check the numbers. That’s when he discovered he was a $100,000 winner!
One of his tickets matched the five winning numbers in the June 30 Cash 5 day drawing: 5-7-21-23-33.
He bought the winning ticket at the 7-Eleven at 875 Carolina Highway in Suffolk using Easy Pick.
Mr. Driscoll told Lottery officials he plans to use his winnings to pay bills and save for college for his children.
Cash 5 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. The chances of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.
Nearly 95 cents of each dollar spent on the Virginia Lottery by players goes back to the Commonwealth in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retailer commissions. Since 1999, all Virginia Lottery profits have been designated solely to K-12 public school education in the Commonwealth. In that time, the Lottery has turned over more than $4 billion for Virginia’s public schools. The latest annual profits of $439.1 million currently represent about 7 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia. In 21 years, the Lottery has sold more than $21.1 billion in tickets, awarded more than $1.1 billion in retailer commissions and paid more than $11.6 billion in prizes to players.
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