J. Refugio Gonzalez Almeida drove from Utah to Idaho to buy the winning ticket.
A month later, Almeida drove back to Idaho to check all of his tickets, not realizing that he had a big winner from the July 4 drawing.
“I had $2, $8, not a lot. And then they scanned another one and they told me I had to take it to the Lottery Commission!” Almeida said inAccording to lottery officials, Almeida plans to invest his new windfall, which he collected on Aug. 11.The record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot was won on Aug. 8, when one player in the northeastern Florida city of Neptune Beach won the
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