As Hurricane Matthew crawled toward Florida, a 55-year-old Belle Glade man received some good news — he'd won $1 million in the Florida lottery.
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Florida lottery officials announced Thursday afternoon that Selvyn Cormack bought a winning Gold Rush Doubler Scratch-Off ticket from a Marathon Gas Station in Belle Glade.
Cormack chose to receive the money as a one-time lump sum payment of $745,000.
A Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off ticket costs $20 and has prizes up to $5 million. Cormack won one of 30 $1 million prizes, the lottery said.
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