Powerball ticket worth $314.3M sold on border

In addition to the big winner, a second ticket matching five of the six numbers was also sold in Indiana.

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — The only winning ticket for a $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.

Lottery officials won’t know who holds that ticket until someone comes forward, said Mark Sirkin, a spokesman for the Hoosier Lottery.

“We don’t how many people — if it’s one person, or a hundred people — is the winner. We have no idea. Whoever it is, they’re wealthy,” Sirkin said.

The ticket bearing the winning numbers — 2, 8, 23, 29, 35 and the Powerball: 19 — that were drawn Saturday night was sold at a Speedway convenience store.

The store in Richmond, about 70 miles east of Indianapolis, will receive $100,000 from the lottery for selling the ticket.

‘Lucky state’

Aside from the winning ticket, a ticket matching five of the six numbers was sold in Munster and is worth $200,000, said Kathryn A. Densborn, Hoosier Lottery executive director.

“Indiana is a very lucky state,” Densborn said. “It’s a big day in Indiana.”

Powerball, which began in 1985, is played in 29 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The record jackpot was $365 million won by eight workers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant in February 2006.