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A whole Lotto heartbreak
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 3:14 PM by Andy Koen
Updated: Apr 11, 2011 5:53 PM
For about an hour on Sunday, Jim and Dorothy Sprague thought they were millionaires. The Pueblo couple had purchased a ticket for Saturday's $4.3 million Colorado Lottery drawing and when they looked in Sunday's newspaper they found that they matched all six numbers.
But it turns out, the newspaper had mistakenly published incorrect numbers. The Sprague's only discovered the error after calling their children to share the good news. Their daughter went online to verify the numbers and noticed the error.
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