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$2M Winning Lottery Ticket Sold in Lehigh County
The Hess station in Orefield sold another winning Powerball ticket, its third large jackpot-winning ticket, including a $1 million ticket in March and $371,000 ticket in February.
A Hess station in Orefield sold another winning Powerball ticket—this one worth $2 million from the April 6 drawing, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Monday.
The Hess station at 3640 Route 309 sold a $1 million prize-winning Powerball ticket for the March 23 drawing and a
The gas station will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling this latest winning ticket.
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The winner has not been identified, the lottery said.
The April 6 winning ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 04-07-08-29-39, but not the red Powerball 24, and added Power Play, which sets the prize at $2 million, less 25 percent federal withholding, according to the lottery website.
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Without the Power Play option, the prize amount would have been $1 million, it said.
The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated annuity value of $60 million, or $38.9 million cash, for the Wednesday, April 10, drawing.
In the 2011-12 fiscal year, in addition to awarding more than $39.7 million in prizes to Lehigh County winners, the Pennsylvania Lottery contributed more than $25.1 million to programs serving the county’s older residents.
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