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City Market in Durango sells $50,000 Powerball winner

People buy lottery tickets at the Primm Valley Casino Resorts Lotto Store just inside the California border on Tuesday near Primm, Nev. The Powerball jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion for Wednesday’s drawing. Three ticket-holders will split the jackpot.

No one in La Plata County became a multimillionaire in Wednesday’s record-breaking Powerball drawing, but someone who bought a ticket in Durango is $50,000 richer.

The winner, who purchased the ticket at north City Market, matched 4 out of 5 numbers but did not purchase the PowerPlay option that would have doubled the winnings, said Kelly Tabor, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Lottery.

The store will receive a $2,000 commission for selling the ticket.

Five $100,000 winners, who did purchase the PowerPlay, were all on the Front Range. The state had ten $50,000 winners, including two sold at a King Soopers on Chestnut Place in Denver.

Coloradans spent more than $60 million on Powerball tickets since the jackpot began accruing on Nov. 4. Tabor said $21 million, 36 cents per ticket, will be split between Great Outdoors Colorado, the Conservation Trust Fund and Colorado Parks & Wildlife.

Three winning tickets split the $1.5 billion jackpot, with those tickets purchased in Chino Hills, California; Munford, Tennessee; and Melbourne Beach, Florida.

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