The New York Lottery today announced that Gudfinna Leifsson of Melville won $25,000 on the Lottery's Magnificent Millions instant game.
Leifsson's winning ticket was purchased at the Melville Superstar at 490 Route 110 in Melville.
The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, earning more than $39.3 billion in education support statewide since its founding over 40 years ago. The Lottery contributed nearly $2.67 billion in fiscal year 2009-2010 to help support education in New York State, which was over 12 percent of total state education funding to local school districts.
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Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education. It takes into account both a school district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.
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