2 Lotto Tickets Sold in Southland to Share Jackpot

Two winning tickets were purchased in Southern California for the $6.4-million jackpot Saturday in the California Lottery’s twice-weekly Lotto 6/49 drawing, a lottery spokesman said Sunday.

The winning tickets, each worth $3.2 million, will earn the bearer $128,000 each year for the next 20 years, after tax deductions, spokesman John Schade said.

The tickets were purchased at a 7-Eleven at 15601 Nordhoff St. in Sepulveda and at the Family Ranch Market, 420 S. Long Beach Blvd., Compton. Both winners picked their own numbers, rather than allowing the machine to choose. Names of the new millionaires will not be known until they come forward to claim the prizes.

The winning numbers picked in the Saturday night drawing were: 27, 25, 5, 8, 1, 44 and the bonus number, 31.

Seven tickets had five numbers plus the bonus number, and will pay $246,927 each.

There were 370 tickets with five numbers, worth $2,406 each; 19,171 tickets with four numbers, each worth $42, and 334,463 tickets with three numbers worth an automatic $5 prize.

Sales from Wednesday night to Saturday’s drawing were $16.2 million, with $5.5 million going to schools, Schade said.

Wednesday’s 6/49 jackpot is expected to be about $6 million.

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