US Couple Win $1.8 Million After Finding Discarded Lottery Ticket At Home

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from Louisiana have more than a million reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving after discovering a long lost jackpot-winning lottery
ticket with only two weeks left to claim it.Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the $1.8 million winning ticket, which won the southern US
state's June 6 Lottery Lotto draw, while doing some holiday cleaning."We have family coming into town for Thanksgiving, so I was cleaning up
the house and found a few lottery tickets on my nightstand that we hadn't checked," Tina said, according to a statement by Louisiana
Lottery.The couple checked the Lottery's website and soon found one of the tickets matched all of the numbers listed, and were able to claim
their prize with just two weeks remaining of the 180-day limitAfter state and federal taxes, the Ehrenbergs take home $1,274,313, which they
plan to put away for their retirement."We don't have any plans to buy anything crazy or go on any big trips," Tina said.A single winner in
the South Carolina town of Simpsonville took home a massive $1.5 billion in the Mega Millions US lottery jackpot last month, dwarfing a
previous record set in March 2012 at $656 million.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff
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