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$8.47 million Hot Lotto ticket purchased in W.Va.
Monday, March 20, 2006 posted 10:36 AM EST
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A winning ticket for Saturday's $8.47 million Hot Lotto jackpot was purchased at an Eastern Panhandle
convenience store, a West Virginia lottery spokeswoman said Sunday.
The ticket was sold at State Line Market in Bunker Hill near the West Virginia-Virginia border, lottery spokeswoman Nancy
Bulla said.
It is West Virginia's second Hot Lotto jackpot. The first, worth about $1.75 million, was won last summer by Diane Ellis
of South Charleston.
The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 1, 8, 10, 23, 33 and the hotball was 11.
Hot Lotto tickets are sold in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia
and the District of Columbia. Chances of winning the jackpot are one in about 11 million, compared to the larger Powerball
jackpot, whose chances of winning are one in about 146 million.
The winner will have 60 days to decide whether to take the jackpot over 25 annual payments or to take a cash option of about
$5 million before taxes.
Bulla advised the jackpot winner to "sign the back of the ticket, put it in a safe place, and call the Lottery as soon as
possible."
State Line Market will receive a bonus up to $100,000 for selling the winning ticket, Bulla said.
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