We have a winner: Cambridge City liquor store sells winning lottery ticket

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. — Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Cambridge City has won a quarter of a million dollars.

The winning ticket matched all five numbers in Sunday's CA$H 5 drawing, according to a Hoosier Lottery news release. The winning numbers for an estimated $255,500 payout were 4-8-16-23-45.

The winner purchased the ticket at Bob-O-Link Liquors at 19 W. Main St. The odds of matching all five numbers are 1 in 1,221,759, according to Hoosier Lottery.

CA$H 5 also awarded a jackpot Jan. 9 when a ticket sold in Angola matched all five numbers. That jackpot was $722,500.

Hoosier Lottery suggests the jackpot winner ensure the winning ticket is in a secure place and consider meeting with a financial advisor before claiming the jackpot. The winner should contact Hoosier Lottery customer service at 1-800-955-6886 for specific instructions on claiming the jackpot.

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The winning ticket continues Cambridge City's — and Wayne County's — lottery luck.

The Speedway gas station at Indiana 1 and Interstate 70 sold the winning ticket to the July 8, 2016, $536 million Mega Millions drawing. A Hamilton County family bought that ticket.

In January 2009, Darryl Sheets of Cambridge City bought a $6 million winning Hoosier Lotto ticket at Rihm's Drive-In Liquors. Sheets took the before-taxes $2,449,712 cash prize.

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A couple of $100,000 scratch offs also have been sold by gas stations at the Ind. 1 and I-70 interchange.

In July 2009, Michael Reed of Cambridge City bought a winning 20th Anniversary Hoosier Lottery scratch off at the then-Gas American station, and in September 2010, Karen Rhodus of Hagerstown bought a winning Double Play scratch-off at the Shell station.

Other tickets sold in Wayne County winning large prizes include:

• A $314.3 million Powerball prize claimed by David Coterel of Riverside, Ohio, that was sold in August 2007 at the Speedway gas station on National Road East in Richmond;

• A $295.7 million Powerball prize in July 1998 split by 13 machinists from Westerville, Ohio, who bought their ticket at the Speedway station on National Road West in Richmond;

• A $20.1 million Hoosier Lotto prize won by Kevin Faidley, who selected the $11,783,030 cash option, in October 2003 after buying his winning ticket at the BP station on National Road West in Richmond;

• A $1 million Powerball prize for matching the five numbers but not the Powerball claimed by Richard Heaton of Fountain City in February 2014 after buying his ticket at the Hometown Mini Mart in Fountain City;

• A $500,000 prize from a Hoosier Lottery $500,000 Payday scratch-off bought by Sandra Duarte in May 2010 at the then-Village Pantry at North West Fifth and West Main streets in Richmond;

• A $200,000 prize from matching five numbers but not the Powerball that was shared in August 2009 by coworkers Donald Longfellow Jr. of Richmond and Faith Gibson of Wilkinson after buying their winning ticket at the Shell on National Road East in Richmond;

• A $75,000 prize won in October 2010 with a The Price Is Right scratch-off bought by Patricia Wessel of Richmond at Energy Plus 24 on South Eighth Street in Richmond;

• A $50,000 Candlelight Cash scratch-off prize won by Bob Heil of Richmond in February 2009 after buying his ticket at Discount Tobacco on North A Street in Richmond;

• A $50,000 Break the Bank scratch-off prize claimed by Robert Martin of Eaton, Ohio, in November 2011 after buying his ticket at the Speedway station on National Road West in Richmond; and

• A $50,000 share of a $1.5 billion Powerball drawing in January 2016 for matching four of five numbers and the Powerball claimed by Cindy Wilson of Richmond with a ticket bought at Kroger in Richmond.

This article originally appeared on Richmond Palladium-Item: Winning Hoosier Lottery ticket sold at Cambridge City, Indiana store