MARS, Pa. (AP) – A western Pennsylvania convenience store sold the winning ticket in Wednesday’s $18.7 million Powerball jackpot.

The A-Plus Sunoco convenience store on Perry Highway in Mars, Butler County, sold the ticket with the winning numbers.

Wednesday’s drawing marks the second time in eight weeks that the winning Powerball ticket was sold in Pennsylvania. Nine winning tickets have been sold in the state since Pennsylvania joined the Powerball game in the summer of 2002.

Three Pittsburgh-area women shared a $14.73 million cash jackpot from the Jan. 22 drawing, from a ticket they bought at Nielsen’s, a newsstand and convenience store in PNC Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh.

The Butler County convenience store will get $100,000 for selling the ticket once the winner comes forward, but Ray Schrapz, the district manager for the A-Plus Sunoco, said he doesn’t know how the money will be used.

“Typically it gets generated toward the store’s profit and loss, but,” Schrapz adds, “what they’re going to do with it, I don’t know – that gets determined by someone else. “

Schrapz said the store’s lottery machine had been busy Friday.

Twenty-even states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands participate in the Powerball lottery.

The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing were 11-19-25-38-50, and the Powerball number was 35.

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