ATLANTA – Phillip Goolsby considers his half-million dollar windfall the best accident ever.

Goolsby of Atlanta intended to try his luck playing last week’s mammoth multi-state jackpot games, but walked away with a $500,000 top prize from the Georgia Lottery instant game Jumbo Jumbo Bucks.

“I’m pretty lucky,” said Goolsby, 32, as he claimed his prize at Georgia Lottery headquarters in Atlanta recently.

Goolsby purchased his lucky ticket from a Georgia Lottery Instant Ticket Vending Machine the Publix at 950 West Peachtree Street NW in Midtown Atlanta.

“I put in $20, but I intended to insert $10,” he explained. “I couldn’t get change, so I chose the ticket and scratched it in the car.”

The lucky winner couldn’t believe his eyes.

“I didn’t believe it. I just looked at it,” Goolsby said. “I just wasn’t sure it was real.”

Working in facilities management, Goolsby intends to purchase a new home and invest the remainder.

URBANA, Ill. --- The Georgia men's tennis team moved into the semifinals of the NCAA Championships with Saturday's 4-2 win over 11^th-seeded Pepperdine. It marks the Bulldogs' sixth trip to the "Final Four" in the last eight seasons.

Georgia  (26-4) responded from losing the doubles point as well as the first two completed first sets in singles to post wins at Nos. 2, 3, 5, and 6 to secure the victory. Junior Garrett Brasseaux provided the clinch for the second straight match and fifth time this season.

ATLANTA -- Imagine being so consumed with a creative desire for expression that you're willing to jog halfway across the city, sweating with a backpack and a can of spray paint; that you'd be willing to climb the highest walls just to get a blank 'canvas." 

"It's actually really good artwork," said one eyewitness in the West End. "And it happens so fast it takes them 45-minutes. And it's so good who wouldn't want it on their building?" 

The answer to that is simple: pretty much anybody with a building.
"Basically it just comes down to something simple," said Keith Flemming, chairman of the Graffiti Task Force. "If you tag an area that you do not have permission, that you do not own, that is vandalism." 

The city of Atlanta has been aggressive in its pursuit of taggers making arrests and cataloging signet graffiti.