Heidi Holton, of Alcoa, Tenn., won $250,000 off of a KY Lottery scratch off ticket she purchased at a south Corbin gas station.
A Tennessee woman purchased a grand prize ticket in a Kentucky Lottery scratch off game at a Corbin gas station.
Lottery officials said Heidi Holton of Alcoa, Tenn. purchased the $250,000 Kentucky Cash Blowout ticket at the Shell gas station on Cumberland Falls Hwy. on May 3.
Tracey Causey, a manager at the store just off of exit 25, said Holton came into the store that morning and scratched it off right there in front of the store employees.
“She kept saying, ‘Oh, my God!” Causey said of Holton.
Jennifer Cunningham, a spokesperson for the lottery, said Holton’s ticket was one of 10 grand prize tickets available in the game, which the lottery has been running since March 1, 2012.
“Heidi claimed number nine, leaving one more top prize ticket available,” Cunningham stated.
Kentucky Cash Blowout offers more than $47 million in cash prizes.
Cunningham said Holton presented the winning ticket at the lottery’s main office in Louisville on May 5. The lottery commission withheld 25 percent of the money for federal taxes and another six percent for state taxes.
“She walked out with a check for $172,500,” Cunningham said.
Efforts to contact Holton were unsuccessful.
The store won as well for selling the winning ticket.
Cunningham said lottery retailers receive one percent of all winning tickets they sell.
Kentucky Lottery proceeds go to college grant, scholarship and literacy programs. The Kentucky Lottery has contributed more than $2 billion for need-based grant and merit-based scholarship programs since 1998. The KLC also contributes $3 million annually to adult literacy development and "Read to Achieve", an early childhood reading program. Since its inception in 1989, the Kentucky Lottery has sent nearly $4 billion to the Commonwealth.
