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An Alabama man wins $1.3 million on a Florida lottery scratch-off ticket

A Baldwin County man walked out of a Florida supermarket this week $1.28 million richer.

Jeremy Smith, 49, of Lillian, purchased a $10 TRIPLE 777 scratch-off ticket at a CEFCO convenience store in Gulf Breeze that contained a $2 million prize, according to a recent Florida Lottery release.

He chose to collect his winnings on Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee as a one-time lump sum payment of $1,280,000. CEFCO also received a bonus commission of $4,000 for selling the winning ticket.

According to the press release, the Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $47 billion to improving education and sending more than 983,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenues into the Florida economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,600 lottery retailers and transfers to education.

Since 1988, the Florida Lottery has distributed more than $95.7 billion in winnings and made more than 4,000 people millionaires, the release said.

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