May 28, 2009

Power Ball winner in Winner, South Dakota

Customers fill their vehicles with gasoline on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at the Lil' Feller convenience store (shown below) in Winner, South Dakota.


The Lil' Feller is one of two stores in Winner that sells Powerball tickets, and the owners did not know Thursday which store had sold the winning ticket.

It's been 100 years since this South Dakota ranch town lived up to its name, but it has done so in a big way for whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $232.1 million.

Word spread quickly that the winning ticket had been sold this community of about 3,000 people in south central South Dakota.

The AP photo above was taken by Chet Brokaw. We wonder if he is related to retired NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw who was born in South Dakota.