Hoping for a winner

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With the jackpot at $500 million, ticket sales are more than brisk for Powerball lottery tickets. Clerks at Casey's said today that they usually average $200 per day in Powerball tickets, but reached that amount before 8 a.m. this morning. The chance of winning a Powerball jackpot is one in 175,223,510, according to CNN News, but doesn't stop hopefuls like Roz Buddeberg of McCook, who buys a $2 ticket from Danielle Arden at Casey's The drawing for the jackpot is tonight.