SD lottery winner ‘will not squander’ $232M prize
Posted by doris in Celebrate, Financial, Lottery, Money, Spending, WinPIERRE, S.D. โ It has the makings of a Hollywood script: A young rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of the nation claims one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history โ $232 million โ after buying the ticket in a town called Winner.As he sported a black cowboy hat and a huge grin, 23-year-old Neal Wanless accepted his giant-sized Powerball check at a ceremony Friday.
Wanless, who is single and lives with his mother and father on the family’s 320-acre ranch near Mission, said he’s going to buy himself a bigger spread, repay the kindness other townspeople have shown his family and spend his newfound fortune wisely.
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