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Kentucky man finds $1 million winning Powerball ticket

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Over the past few months, a Kentucky man accumulated a stack of unchecked lottery tickets

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but little did he know that there was a $1 million winning Powerball ticket sitting right there the entire time

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The $1 million winning ticket was purchased at Crossroads IGA on Abigail Way in Lexington,

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which receives a $10,000 bonus for selling it. The ticket matched the first five white ball numbers

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in the Powerball drawing on Aug. 31, which were 7, 8, 19, 24, and 28. The Powerball number was 1.

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Some of the tickets in his most recent stack date back to June. Last Monday night, he sat down to go through them.

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They took the ticket, checked Google to see how much you win for matching the five white ball winning numbers 

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and not the Powerball, and told me we had just won a million dollars

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