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RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) – There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.

Lottery officials won’t know who holds that ticket until someone comes forward, said Mark Sirkin, a spokesman for the Hoosier Lottery.

“We don’t how many people – if it’s one person, or a hundred people – is the winner. We have no idea. Whoever it is, they’re wealthy,” Sirkin said.

The ticket bearing the winning numbers – 2, 8, 23, 29, 35 and the Powerball: 19 – that were drawn Saturday night was sold at a Speedway convenience store in Richmond.

The Hoosier Lottery’s executive director, Kathryn A. Densborn, told reporters at the store some 70 miles east of Indianapolis that aside from the winning ticket, a ticket matching five of the six numbers was sold in the northwestern Indiana city of Munster and is worth $200,000.

“Indiana is a very lucky state. … It’s a big day in Indiana,” Densborn said.

At the Speedway store, workers and customers were excited and wondering aloud if anyone might know the big winner, said Gerald Fraley, Speedway’s eastern Indiana manager, who oversees 10 stores. The Richmond store will receive $100,000 from the lottery for selling the ticket.

“People are sitting on pins and needles, wondering who it is. Is it one person, is it multiple people, is it someone local here in Richmond?” Fraley said. “All the employees are wondering who sold the ticket.”

Fraley said he and his wife were about to leave for church when he got a call for a Hoosier Lottery official who told him that the winning ticket was sold at a Speedway store in eastern Indiana. He said it took the lottery awhile to determine which store sold the ticket.

“I told my wife, “I can’t go to church. Go ahead without me.’ And then I had a phone in each ear for about three hours,” Fraley said.

Powerball is played in Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, the Virginia Islands, Wisconsin and West Virginia.

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