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WINNER, S.D. — It has 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 in this community of about 3,000 people. Friends and neighbors greeted each other Thursday with one question: Who won?
The city is so named because it was the “winner” in a bid to establish a town along the railroad right-of-way when the Chicago North Western began to move west from Dallas, S.D., according to the city’s website. That was in 1909. Now, Winner has been primarily known for its pheasant-hunting season.
