Someone In Indiana Is $314 Million Richer

Winning Powerball Ticket Sold To Lucky Hoosier

(AP)  Hoosier Lottery officials say one winning ticket for last night's Powerball drawing worth $314.3 million was sold at a Speedway convenience store in Richmond, the eastern Indiana city on the Indiana-Ohio state line.

Hoosier Lottery spokesman Mark Sirkin says lottery officials won't know who holds that ticket until someone comes forward. He says it could be one person or a hundred people who pooled their money in an office pool.

But whoever it is, he says, they're now wealthy.

The ticket bearing the winning numbers — 2, 8, 23, 29, 35 and the Powerball: 19 — was sold at a Speedway convenience store in Richmond that will receive $100,000 for selling the ticket.

Hoosier Lottery executive director Kathryn Densborn says Indiana is a very lucky state. She says that aside from the winning ticket, a ticket matching five of the six numbers was sold in the northwestern Indiana city of Munster and it's worth $200,000.

The game is played in 29 states as well as Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The pot had grown so huge because there had not been a big winner in any of the drawings since late June.

And for people out of luck on Powerball, there is another giant lottery jackpot out there. The Mega Millions prize will be worth about $250 million for Tuesday's drawing.

[shanev137]

This is the big lie of the lotto and all the people who advertise it.

This person is not $314 million richer.....they''re only about $70 million richer after taking the cash out option, if they''re lucky.

I can guarantee you if they put the real numbers up on the bill boards, many people wouldn''t buy the tickets.

$314 million just sounds better than $70 million.

[drivelphobe]

sandy19731......

Is that a good thing? I''ve been collecting Social Security for 13 years, so maybe it would increase my benefit? Is that how it works? Do you work for the IRS? Is that how you know so much? Who would be taxed on the earnings of the lottery? Could it have any adverse effects on me or is it all good news?

Thanks for the assistance and info.

[sandy19731]

If an illegal alien is using your social security number in order to have a job, he/she is contributing to your social security fund.

[sandy19731]

This cannot be true!

The Iowa Lottery people said just last week that Iowa was due for another winner!

Could they have had ulterior motives?

[drivelphobe]

Let''s hope it''s not an illegal alien using my social security number.