14 Tickets Strike It Rich in Pennsylvania
Fourteen winning tickets were picked in the state’s record $115-million lottery jackpot, a computer analysis showed Thursday, and two winning tickets quickly were claimed by a group of Ohio factory workers and a Pennsylvania family.
The big jackpot totaled $115,578,980.14, about 30 minutes after 14 workers from a Windham, Ohio, brick factory arrived to claim a share of it, said Jim Scroggins, lottery executive director.
“I couldn’t believe it. I still don’t,” said brick worker Butch Shavers, 38, of Warren, Ohio. Also arriving to claim a winning ticket were Alverto Handel, 65, of Portage; her son, Jim, 39, of Summer Hill, and her daughter, Nancy Williams, 34, of Ft. Montgomery, N.Y.
Williams said she got six of the winning numbers from a computerized palm reader at an open-air bazaar when she and her husband were vacationing in the Bahamas. Her mother added the seventh number, 24, based on the number of tickets they had purchased.
Scroggins said each of the 14 jackpot tickets will be worth $317,524.67 a year, or more than $8.2 million paid out over 26 years.
The workers from the Harbison-Walker brick factory arrived at the lottery’s headquarters in Middletown, outside Harrisburg, in a four-vehicle caravan. The workers said they had bought $140 worth of tickets.
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