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Rashaun Boyd glanced down at the check engine light that popped on in his car and sighed.
On a normal day, the 41-year-old Plainfield , NJ ., resident said, he would have been in financial trouble.
But this was no normal day for Boyd .
"I don't have to get frantic about that anymore," Boyd chuckled to a group of reporters at the Lawrenceville Lottery headquarters in Georgia on a Sunday after learning he'd become one of the state's most recent millionaires.
Boyd is one of 2 co-workers from a Suwanee company who entered an office pool over the weekend and won a $420.9 million Powerball jackpot.
The winners, from 2 cities in Georgia , where they primarily handle merchandise and quality control at the plant, typically works for hours living check to check.
Georgia Lottery officials say the winning ticket, which matched all six Powerball numbers drawn Dec. 24, was sold by Smoke Shop Inc. owner Joyce Gregory at 711 Scottsville Road in Lawrenceville, Ga., about 60 miles northeast of Atlanta .
Plans to spend the money varied — from vacations and new vehicles to sending children to college and paying medical bills — but one thing was unanimous: the group’s desire to help others.
"I am really tickled. ... It's really going to help our town," said Gregory, who scored $25,000 just for selling the winning ticket.
Georgia Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Hargrove said the cash value of the jackpot is 254 million, which equals just over $121.7 million for each person before taxes.
The ticket is the 200th ticket sold by the Georgia Lottery worth $1 million or more, and the win marked the second-largest prize for the Georgia Lottery. The first was the $528.8 million prize won by a Munford family in January.
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