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US couple win $1.8 million after finding discarded lottery ticket
WASHINGTON, Nov 22, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A couple from Louisiana have more
than a million reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving after discovering a
long lost jackpot-winning lottery ticket with only two weeks left to claim
it.
Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the $1.8 million winning ticket, which won
the southern US state’s June 6 Lottery Lotto draw, while doing some holiday
cleaning.
“We have family coming into town for Thanksgiving, so I was cleaning up
the house and found a few lottery tickets on my nightstand that we hadn’t
checked,” Tina said, according to a statement by Louisiana Lottery.
The couple checked the Lottery’s website and soon found one of the tickets
matched all of the numbers listed, and were able to claim their prize with
just two weeks remaining of the 180-day limit
After state and federal taxes, the Ehrenbergs take home $1,274,313, which
they plan to put away for their retirement.
“We don’t have any plans to buy anything crazy or go on any big trips,”
Tina said.
A single winner in the South Carolina town of Simpsonville took home a
massive $1.5 billion in the Mega Millions US lottery jackpot last month,
dwarfing a previous record set in March 2012 at $656 million.
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