The deadline has come and gone – and that means a $200,000 Powerball ticket sold in Univeristy City is now a worthless piece of paper. The ticket was sold last May. The winner had six months to claim the money. The deadline was 5 p.m. Monday.

This is the third time in two years that a person who bought a $200,000 dollar winning ticket in Missouri has failed to turn it in.

July 7th, 2007! For many Missourians, it’s just another day on the calendar. But for some Missourians who play the Missouri Lottery’s Pick 3 and Pick 4 game it’s a little more than just another day.

Shelly Perez with the Missouri Lottery says a lot of players are thinking there might be some magic to that lucky 7 combination of 7-7-7. Perez says there is always a concern that so many people will play a certain combination of numbers that the combination will "sell out," meaning it will have surpassed the amount of money the Missouri Lottery has available to pay out should the winning combination hit. A winning ticket in the Pick 3, for instance, will bring the winner $600 – and all winning tickets will pay that amount, regardless of the number of winning tickets sold.

So far, the 7-7-7 Pick 3 and 7-7-7-7 Pick 4 combinations have not sold out, but anyone wanting to play those numbers is urged to get a ticked as quickly as possible.

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He’s 84. His wife is 79. And Jim and Shirley Wilson are now worth about a quarter-billion dollars, before taxes, if they want to be. Now they have a big choice to make. Do they want the largest Powerball jackpot in Missouri history to be paid to them in annual installments until he is 114 and she is 109, or do they want a lump-sum payout. They’ll get six million dollars a year afer taxes in 30 annual payments, or a lump sum of $86-Million after taxes right now. They’ll split the money with their two sons, arrange college educations for the grandchildren, and maybe buy a house in a warmer climate.

29 Missouri Lottery-made millionaires who have won a total of more than $431-Million travel to Jefferson City to take part in an event that sees past winners giving their time to help the needy. Michael Lang of St. Peters was part of a group of state workers in the St. Louis area whose lives changed earlier this year with the $224-Million winning ticket in the April 12th Powerball drawing. He joined 28 other millionaires at the Samaritan Center – a Jefferson City service center providing food and clothing to the needy. And, he was happy to help out. Lang says he’s happy to help those in need. This was the 20th annual Missouri Lottery Millionaires Reunion. Each year, the Missouri Lottery invites past winners to converge on a location, somewhere in the state, to contribute their time to the less fortunate. The Lottery’s Gary Gonder says that while the Reunion has been going on for twenty years, it was only in recent years that it became a philanthropic event.

$224-Million isn’t enough for thirteen state employees in St. Louis who hit the Powerball Lottery jackpot April 12th. They say new groups are being formed – depending on who still wants to play – and employees are taking turns buying new tickets. Eleven people are taking about $8.5-Million cash. Two members of the group will get about $4.2-Million because they didn’t buy as many tickets as the others.

Not just one winner of the biggest Powerball ticket jackpot in Missouri history, but 13. Thirteen people who work at a Missouri Social Services office in Florissant have been pooling money to buy Powerball tickets for about a decade and this time their numbers matched. The group bought sixty tickets on Wednesday, hours before the drawing that showed one of them had the right numbers.