by: Micheal Clements, John Tretbar.
Mark Hill is the lucky man from Dearborn that will split the record Powerball jackpot.  His wife Cindy Hill checked their tickets Thursday and discovered they won.

“I called my husband and I said I think I’m having a heart-attack ” She said.”  “He said I’ll meet you at my moms and when he got there we were like ‘ aren’t you excited?’ and he goes I’ve really got to look at this, you have got to show me.”

Hill, 52, bought his ticket at the Trex Mart in Dearborn.  The other winning ticket was bought in Phoenix, Arizona.

Hill and his wife, Cindy, are from the small town of 495 people.  Rumors circulated throughout the town Thursday that they were the winners.

He was announced today as an official winner by the Missouri Lottery at the North Platte R-1 high school in Dearborn.

Hill and the other winner will split a $587 million prize, about $293 million before tax. That’s the largest jackpot every rewarded in Missouri, and the 27th Jackpot winner from the state.

The winning ticket was submitted and verified by Missouri Lottery Thursday.

Missouri, like 36 of the 41 states where Powerball is played, does not allow winners to keep their identity a secret.  Public appearances however are not required.

Trex Mart will also receive a bonus check for $50,000 for selling the winning ticket.

“The retailer and winner are not the only ones to benefit from this record jackpot,” said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery.  “Public education benefits greatly.  Missouri Powerball sales for this jackpot run, which started Oct. 3, were more than $28.8 million, which means more than $10.7 million of those sales will benefit public education.”

 

by: Micheal Clements, John Tretbar.