Small town buzzing over identity of its $1B Powerball winner: ‘Like a murder mystery’
A small-town gas station in Illinois is trying to solve a burning mystery: Who holds Wednesday night’s winning $1.04 billion Powerball lottery ticket that was sold in their store?Jon Marshall, 47, manager of Hy-Vee Gas Fresh & Fast convenience store in Quincy, Illinois, told Fox News Digital that he views the waiting "like a murder mystery.""It was about 3 a.m. I got a phone call from the other gas station manager in town.
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A small-town gas station in Illinois is trying to solve a burning mystery: Who holds Wednesday night’s winning $1.04 billion Powerball lottery ticket that was sold in their store?Jon Marshall, 47, manager of Hy-Vee Gas Fresh & Fast convenience store in Quincy, Illinois, told Fox News Digital that he views the waiting "like a murder mystery.""It was about 3 a.m. I got a phone call from the other gas station manager in town. woke me up and he said, ‘You sold the winning ticket.’"SMALL-TOWN DINER PRODUCES 5TH LOTTERY WINNER IN 2 YEARS AS CUSTOMER HITS $2M JACKPOT"I was like, ‘Wow.’""'Your store sold the winning ticket,'" the other manager said, as Marshal recalled.He was shocked, Marshall said.He ran to his kitchen because he himself bought a Powerball ticket from the Fast & Fresh convenience store. LAS VEGAS PRICES SQUEEZE EVERYDAY TRAVELERS AS POPULAR CITY EMBRACES EXPENSIVE MAKEOVER"I’m like, ‘I better check my ticket before I worry about anything else.’ And, of course, I wasn’t a winner," he said.As of late Thursday afternoon, the identity of the winner was still a mystery.
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- A small-town gas station in Illinois is trying to solve a burning mystery: Who holds Wednesday night’s winning $1.04 billion Powerball lottery ticket that was sold in their store?Jon Marshall, 47, manager of Hy-Vee Gas Fresh & Fast convenience store in Quincy, Illinois, told Fox News Digital that he views the waiting "like a murder mystery.""It was about 3 a.m. I got a phone call from the other gas station manager in town.
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