"You're the lotto guy, right?" said the smiling girl at my lottery store. It was quiet - I was the only person there as she dealt out my tickets.
"Well I've got an idea to run past you," she said, stacking up the tickets…
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The owner of the store which sold one of the winning $1.5 billion USA Powerball tickets is now a millionaire.
California Lottery officials presented 7-Eleven owner Balbir Atwal with a $1million check, just for being the lucky place where one of the Powerball winners purchased her ticket.
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Powerball winner Jack Long (circled) presents a check for $100,000 to the Children’s Fund in San Bernardino. PHOTO: Herald News/Alejandro Cano
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New employee Jennifer Maldonado (arrowed) never thought this would happen to her.
Jennifer Maldonado had worked only two weeks at the Florida real estate agency when she got the surprise of her life.
NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. is worth $300 million, so why does he still buy lottery tickets?
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Stores where a winning ticket was sold should be able to be named says lawmaker.
When the time ran out for a winning Powerball ticket owner in Minnesota to claim the $1 million prize, someone decided to do something about it.
Up until now the store's identity where the winning ticket was bought is kept secret. In Minnesota and most states, the lottery staff is only allowed to reveal the county where it was sold.
But the actual location is withheld until after the ticket is redeemed by the winner.
Rep. Joe Atkins (front) of Inver Grove Heights wants to change the law.
So Rep. Joe Atkins of Inver Grove Heights wants the law changed so that a winner will get more opportunity to be reminded of the win.
"If you hear that it was purchased at the local gas station where you buy all your lottery tickets, you're immediately going to check your lottery tickets," Rep. Atkins explained.
"If you just simply hear it was bought in Minnesota there's not that prompt, not that strong reminder to check the numbers again."
The story didn't have a good ending for the potential Powerball winner-to-be. Players have one year after the date of any drawing to redeem those tickets and claim their winnings.
In this case the unclaimed prize was from the March 26, 2014 Powerball drawing. And as of 5:00 p.m. Thursday the money was forfeited.
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Jamie Bone learns of her $1 million win at the St Louis County, Missouri store. Video: CNN
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What would you do if your town of 4,000 residents had to drive half an hour to the nearest grocery store in another town, and you had a $202 million lottery windfall?
Easy - spend $4.5 million and buy your town their own supermarket. That's what two 2012 Iowa Powerball jackpot winners did, and it opens at the end of this month.
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Maryjane Hart and the winning ticket she sold herself. Photo: Nicki Howard
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