One local man is three million dollars richer after a lucky golden lottery scratch off ticket landed in his hands.
Dave Sabol received a $3 million commemorative check from the Pennsylvania Lottery on Wednesday.
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Sabol and his wife go out to dinner every Friday and stop by a Country Fair gas station in Union City for a ticket. He typically plays at the same machine, but another customer was using that one and Sabol decided to switch things up that day.
Sabol said when he saw the ticket, he immediately told his wife about the prize.
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“I was more in shock and couldn’t believe it, so I had to go down to the store because my app wasn’t working on my phone,” he said. “There’s so many ideas out there, we have no idea what we’re actually going to do first.”
Retailer Country Fair will also receive a $10,000 selling bonus for the winning ticket.
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