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Local Woman Wins Big With Scratch Off Lottery Ticket

Kimberlei Davis

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — A Columbia woman is a quarter-of-a-million dollars richer. According to officials with the South Carolina Lottery, the woman stopped at the Xpress Zone 2 on Bush River Road and bought a Carolina Green lottery ticket on her way to work. The winner says she’s buying a home and paying off her student loans with the scratch off ticket…
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Powerball jackpot expected to grow to $400 million Wednesday

ABC Columbia Staff

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The next Powerball winner will have a chance to claim one of the game’s 10 biggest prizes this week when the jackpot grows to roughly $400 million. Lottery officials say no one claimed Saturday’s $334 million prize, although someone from Pennsylvania won $2 million and three players from California, Connecticut and South Carolina won $1…