A Kentucky convenience store sold a Powerball ticket worth $150K. Then it sold another
Kentucky,Louisville,Portland,Lottery,General News
Two winning Powerball tickets — each worth $150,000 — have been claimed after they were sold at the same Paducah convenience store for the game’s April 6 drawing. Both winners, one an anonymous woman and the other veteran riverboat captain Jimmy Sharp, bought their tickets at the Quick Shop on Bridge Street, the Kentucky Lottery revealed in a news release Friday. Sharp, who has piloted a riverboat for almost 50 years, doesn’t normally play the Powerball unless the jackpot tops $100 million, he told Kentucky Lottery officials. However, enticed by...
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