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$260M Powerball Ticket Sold Here

ORG XMIT: SCMC104 Amber Baldwin, right, assistant manager at the Murphy USA store in Columbia, S.C. sells a South Carolina Education Lottery ticket to Laura Myers, 60, of Columbia. This is the store that sold the winning $259.9 million Powerball ticket. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain) (Mary Chastain / The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354

Amber Baldwin, right, assistant manager at the Murphy USA store in Columbia, S.C. sells a South Carolina Education Lottery ticket to Laura Myers, 60, of Columbia. This is the store that sold the winning $259.9 million Powerball ticket. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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