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November 6, 2009
 When Rosa Smith of Chesapeake discovered she had won $150,000 in the Virginia Lottery’s Molten Money Scratcher game, she didn’t yell or shout. She couldn’t.
“I was speechless,” she told Lottery officials. “I couldn’t believe I really won.”
She bought the winning ticket at Frank’s Trucking Center, 4717 West Military Highway in Chesapeake.
Her ticket is the second top prize to be claimed in the Molten Money game. One top prize remains unclaimed.
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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