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Winning ticket bought in Indiana

Published August 27, 2007 at midnight

RICHMOND, Ind. - There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.

Lottery officials won't know who holds that ticket until someone comes forward, said Mark Sirkin, a spokesman for the Hoosier Lottery.

"We don't how many people - if it's one person, or a hundred people - is the winner. We have no idea. Whoever it is, they're wealthy," Sirkin said.

The ticket bearing the winning numbers - 2, 8, 23, 29, 35 and the Powerball: 19 - that were drawn Saturday night was sold at a Speedway convenience store.

The Richmond store will receive $100,000 from the lottery for selling the ticket.

ONE YEAR LATER Hundreds gathered Sunday in Nicholasville, Ky., to remember the 49 lives lost when a Comair flight crashed shortly after takeoff a year ago. The memorial service was held at a church a few miles from the airport where Comair 5191 crashed on Aug. 27, 2006.

LEAVING CALIFORNIA Jack McClellan, a self-described pedophile, is leaving California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather. "I have to leave the state, really, I can't live here under this Orwellian protocol. It's nightmarish," he told KABC-TV in Los Angeles.

CANCELED TRIP First lady Laura Bush has canceled plans to accompany the president to Australia, citing a pinched nerve, her office announced Sunday. President Bush is due to arrive Sept. 4 in Sydney, three days before he participates in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation annual summit Sept. 7-9.

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