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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Another $1 million Powerball ticktet sold in Iowa

by O. Kay Henderson on October 11, 2009

in Human Interest, Politics & Government, Recreation & Entertainment

Lottery officials say for the second-straight week a person who bought a Powerball ticket in Iowa can claim a million dollar prize.  

Last week an 84-year-old man claimed a million dollar Powerball prize on a ticket he bought at a West Des Moines supermarket. Now, for this past Saturday, a ticket sold at a Casey’s convenience store in Des Moines matched the first five numbers in the Powerball drawing. 

The person who bought the ticket spent an extra dollar on the so-called “Power Play” option, ensuring they’d win not just 200-thousand dollars for matching the five numbers, but they’d win a million. 

This is the fourth time this year that a Powerball ticket sold in Iowa has been worth $1 million.

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Latham says public weary of “bickering”

by O. Kay Henderson 10/11/09 8:27 PM

Congressman Tom Latham says Americans are tired of the “bickering” among the nation’s elected leaders.  Latham, a Republican from Ames, says leaders in both the Democratic and Republican Parties are to blame.
“They want to play the partisan politic game,” Latham says.  “Let’s sit down together and work for the American people. That’s the people told [...]

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