NORTHRIDGE : Lotto Winner to Get $23-Million Share

A Northridge woman is worth a cool $23 million-plus after stepping forward to claim her half of Wednesday’s $46.5-million jackpot. The woman, who will be identified at a Monday news conference here, is in line for 20 annual payments of $1,164,000, lottery spokeswoman Laura Crumpler said Friday.

Retailers who sold the tickets will get a bonus of $116,400. Two winning tickets, worth $23,280,000 each, were bought at Purity Liquor on Gage Avenue in Bell, and at an Alpha Beta on Rinaldi Street in Northridge. If the other ticket, with the numbers 16, 45, 37, 2, 26 and 42, is not claimed within six months the money will go to the state education fund.