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Falls Church Man's $100K Lottery Win A Holiday Surprise

The lucky winner will use some of the money to restore a vintage Mustang.

A Falls Church man got to start off his new year right with a $100K grand prize win in the Virginia Lottery.

Linwood Harris had been on a trip with family when he decided to check his lottery tickets. That's when he discovered his ticket matched all five numbers in the Dec. 28 Cash 5 drawing.

Harris used random computer-generated numbers in the drawing. The winning numbers were 10-21-30-31-33. He purchased the winning ticket at the Seven Corners Sunoco, 6301 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church.

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While Harris plans to save his prize money, he might spend a bit to restore a vintage Mustang his father gave him.

Cash 5 drawings are held each day at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The odds of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.

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