$50K lottery ticket sold in Atlanta

Call it the Luck of the Irish or just plain fate, but one Atlantan is walking around with a winning lottery ticket.

The $50,000 ticket was one of two sold in the Powerball drawing on Wednesday. The winning numbers — 18, 36, 45, 47, 69 and the Powerball number 14 — were played at the Kroger on 3871 Peachtree Road.

The other ticket was sold in Dawsonville at a Publix on

145 Dawson Forest Road.

No winners have come forward in either prize.

Potential winners can try their luck with the next Powerball drawing on Saturday. The jackpot is $495 million.

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