Winning powerball ticket sold in Sunbury
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2010/06/03/story-sunbury-powerball-ticket-winner.html?sid=102SUNBURY, Ohio — Ohio has a $261.6 million Powerball winner less than two months after the state joined the multistate lottery game.
The Ohio Lottery says the only winning ticket matching all six numbers in Wednesday night's drawing was sold at a store in Sunbury, 10TV's Patrick Bell reported.
Ralph Smith, owner of the business where the ticket was sold, will receive a $100,000 check for selling the winning ticket, Bell reported.
"It's been tough around here for the last year with the economy as it is," Smith said. "It's been tough. It's been a struggle It'll help."
Clerk Rose Ong says it's a "wonderful" feeling and says the store does not know who the winner is.
The holder of the ticket has 180 days to come forward to claim the quarter of a billion dollar jackpot.
If he or she takes the cash option, after taxes, they will take home $134.2 million.
Ohio will make at least $8.1 million in taxes, because the sale was made within the state, Bell reported.
I've known Ralph my whole life, he grew up just down the road from my mom in Harlem Twp (where I grew up as well).
Congrats to them.
