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Miami Herald
09-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Lottery ticket worth $5 million sold at Florida gas station. Here's where
A woman decided to buy a Florida Lottery ticket for $20 when she stopped at a gas station by an airport. Then she won $5 million. Lucinda Joseph-Rann hit a jackpot prize with her scratch-off ticket in the $5,000,000 Crossword Cash game, the Florida Lottery announced May 9. She bought her ticket at a Gate Petroleum Company convenience store, which received a $10,000 bonus for selling it, near Jacksonville International Airport, lottery officials said. Records show she beat the 1-in-4,012,065 odds to win one of four prizes of $5 million in the game. No more top prizes remain in the game. The 54-year-old Duval County woman claimed her winnings in Tallahassee as a lump sum of $3,262,138, officials said.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gas station trip earns Florida woman $5M lottery jackpot
March 31 (UPI) -- The Florida Lottery said a trip to the gas station ended up earning a Hialeah woman a $5 million jackpot. Lottery officials said Nubia Fagot, 62, made a stop at the Beacon Service Station on Northwest 12th Street in Doral and selected a $5,000,000 Crossword Cash scratch-off ticket. The $20 ticket turned out to be a $5 million top prize winner. Lottery officials said Fagot chose to receive her winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $3,262,138. The gas station was awarded a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
