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Groton Daily Independent
Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 056 ~ 43 of 65
Overnight, it had mistakenly announced the winning ticket was sold at a shop in Watertown, just outside Boston.
But shortly before 8 a.m., the lottery said it had made a mistake, and that the winning ticket was sold at the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, about halfway across the state.
Massachusetts Lottery Executive Director Michael Sweeney said of cials were manually recording the names of the retailers that sold the winning ticket and transcribed it incorrectly. Sweeney issued an apology for the confusion created by the error, but said lottery staff remained thrilled that a jackpot winning ticket and two $1 million winning tickets were sold in Massachusetts — one of those at the Watertown location.
Mike Donatelli, a spokesman for the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, said the store was noti ed shortly before 8 a.m. that it had actually sold the record jackpot ticket.
Sweeney said the store will pocket $50,000 for selling the jackpot winner. Bob Bolduc, owner of the Pride store chain, said the proceeds would be donated to local charities.
“The phone started ringing at 8 o’clock” Bolduc said. “We were as surprised as everybody else. We’re happy for our customer, and we’re happy for the charities.”
The lucky numbers from Wednesday night’s drawing were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and the Powerball was 4.
Powerball is played in 44 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, all of which collectively oversee the game. Drawings are held twice a week. Five white balls are drawn from a drum containing 69 balls and one red ball is selected from a drum with 26 balls. Players can choose their numbers or let a computer make a random choice.
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Associated Press Writer Dave Collins in Chicopee, Massachusetts, contributed to this report.
Dutch police detain suspect in concert terror threat By MIKE CORDER and SYLVAIN PLAZY, Associated Press
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Alerted by a detailed tip from Spanish colleagues, Dutch police ar- rested a man Thursday and questioned him on suspicion of preparing an attack on a concert in Rotterdam by an American rock band.
But the Dutch justice minister suggested later in the day that the suspect may only have sent a threat- ening message.
The 22-year-old man was being interrogated to determine exactly what his role was in the threat, police spokeswoman Svetlana Westermeijer said. No charges had been led yet.
The arrest in a town identi ed by Dutch media as Zevenbergen, south of Rotterdam, came hours after police canceled a performance Wednesday night by the Los Angeles band Allah-Las at a converted grain silo in the heart of the port city.
“The suspicion is that the suspect is involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack,” Rotterdam Police Chief Frank Paauw said.
“There is no terror threat now anymore,” he added. “There is no threat because we have arrested a suspect and the information about the threat was so speci c on the location of the event that, with that arrest, we can conclude that the threat is gone.”
If authorities want to prolong the suspect’s detention, they will have to arraign him at a closed-door hear- ing with an investigative judge before the end of Friday, prosecution spokeswoman Jeichien de Graaff said. Police searched the man’s home after his arrest but released no details of anything they found. His
identity wasn’t released, in line with Dutch privacy guidelines.
Security and Justice Minister Stef Blok, in an interview with BNR radio, suggested the suspect may only
have spread the threat on a social media platform.
“The person who spread the message has been picked up and he will be questioned,” Blok said in a
reference to the man’s arrest. “We are very curious to hear from him why he carried out this idiotic action.” Meanwhile, a Spanish mechanic detained Wednesday night while driving a white van containing a number
of gas canisters close to the concert venue was released without charge.