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A Bruning man won $90,000 playing Nebraska Pick 5.
Larry Sharp purchased his Pick 5 ticket at a Good2Go in Bruning, and one of his five plays on the ticket matched the winning numbers, according to a news release from the Nebraska Lottery.
Sharp didn't notice he'd won until his sister told him there'd been a winner in Bruning. He said he's been playing the same numbers -- 5, 8, 26, 34 and 38 -- every day for about six months, according to the news release.
Sharp plans to use his winnings to buy a new pickup truck.
The odds of winning the Nebraska Pick 5 jackpot are 1 in 501,942. The jackpot starts at $50,000 and grows by $4,000 after each drawing that is not won.
Photos: Nebraska Powerball winners
In this 2006 photo, employees enter and leave the Conagra Foods ham-processing plant in Lincoln, where eight co-workers were the holders of the winning $365 million Powerball ticket.
JEFF BUNDY, THE WORLD-HERALD
In 2006, the winners of the then-record $365 million Powerball lottery jackpot were announced at a press conference at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. The press conference was carried on live television and featured a throng of reporters and photographers worthy of a presidential visit.
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Top row, from left: attorney James Hoppe, Robert Stewart, Alain Maboussou, Dung Tran, Eric Zornes and David Gehle. Bottom row, from left, Chasity Rutjens, Quang Dao and Michael Terpstra. The winners of what was then the nation's largest lottery prize were revealed at a press conference in the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in February 2006.
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Siena Francis house residents receive gift cards to buy Christmas presents, courtesy of Alain Maboussou, the former meatpacking plant mechanic who shared a Powerball winning ticket with seven other co-workers in 2006. Maboussou made yearly donations of $20,000 for Christmas shopping trips for Siena Francis guests.
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Bob Pagani, a man claiming to be an out-of-work truck driver who had won the $365 million Powerball jackpot, turned out to be a hoaxer. His hoax started falling apart as reporters questioned discrepancies in Pagani's story, including how the ticket was purchased.
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Powerball lottery winners, Erica, right, and David Harrig, of Gretna, who won $34.1 million in December 2013.
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Theresa Gulizia, co-owner of the Speedee Mart, gets another phone call about the winning Powerball ticket sold at her store in December 2013.
CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD
Check out this history of Nebraska Powerball jackpot winners.
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Zach and Shelby Norenberg of Fremont plan to use Zach’s 2019 Powerball winnings to pay off their mortgage and student loans.
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From left: Nebraska Lottery Director Jim Haynes, Nebraska Tax Commissioner Kim Conroy, Powerball winners David and Erica Harrig and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman at the Governor's Hearing Room at the State Capitol in December 2013.
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Kim Conroy, Nebraska Tax Commissioner, left, laughs as Powerball winner David Harrig takes a photo of the media in attendance before he and his wife, Erica Harrig, right, speak during a press conference in December 2013.
CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD
Patricia Krontz, of Homer, Nebraska, won $1 million in 2013 after her Powerball ticket matched all five white ball numbers — 4, 6, 34, 49, 56.
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Lyle and Dianne Fleharty of Hastings opened a press conference at the offices of the Nebraska Lottery by telling how they watched on television as the numbers 1, 2, 8, 21, 31 and the Powerball number of 18 were drawn the night of July 30. "Nobody picks 1 and 2," Fleharty said he'd told his wife.
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