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"Sales of Powerball tickets surged Wednesday with the game's third-highest jackpot on the line.Wednesday night's drawing is worth an estimated $360 million, or $230 million for a player who chooses to take the prize in a lump sum.At the Red X store in Riverside, there's a special section of the store devoted just to lottery ticket sales, and it was a busy place on Wednesday.While some people buy Powerball tickets all the time, others said they were drawn by the prospect of the large jackpot.\"It's the first time I've bought a lottery ticket, in, um, probably three months,\" said Glen McLeod. \"With $360 million, my family could use it.\"\"Riverside's always been real good because we've been doing this for years,\" said Janet Pryor. \"We've never won big. Sometimes we don't win at all, but we keep trying.\"About a half-hour north of Riverside, people flocked to a store that already sold a ticket for the all-time Powerball record-holding jackpot.At the Trex Mart convenience store and gas station where Cindy and Mark Hill bought the winning ticket that gave them a share of the top Powerball prize last fall, nearly every purchase included Powerball tickets.\"It has history because the couple from Dearborn won,\" said buyer Michael Eivins.\"My mother-in-law buys tickets here and only here because of (the Hills) winning it,\" said Sean Farris.Trex Mart clerk Kelly Blount said she still sees the Hills regularly and that Mark Hill had just come into the store moments before KMBC 9 News cameras arrived.\"You just missed him, actually,\" she said.She said customers are hoping that the Hill family's luck will rub off.\"I\u00A0don't know if it'll ever happen again, but we never thought it would happen the first time,\" she said. \"So you just never know.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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