$133.2 MILLION POWERBALL TICKET SOLD ON WESTERN SLOPE
JUNCTION» Someone GRAND who bought a Powerball ticket on Patterson Road in Grand Junction won the largest Powerball jackpot in Colorado history on Saturday, a $133.2 million payoff, in spite of 292 million-to-1 odds.
The ticket was purchased at the Lucky Me convenience store, according to the Colorado Lottery.
The store will receive a $50,000 award, lottery officials said.
During the same drawing, two other winning tickets also were purchased in Grand Junction. A ticket sold at a Safeway on Horizon Drive won $50,000, and another sold at Walmart Fuel Center on Warrior Way won $100,000, Tabor said.
Until Saturday, the largest Powerball winning in Colorado was $90 million, purchased in Rifle in 2014.
Four who died in plane crash are identified.
Relatives of four people who died in the crash of a small plane Friday in Garfield County said they are broken-hearted and prepared for a prolonged period of grief.
“Our family’s hearts have been broken by this tragic accident,” said the relatives’ statement, which identifies those killed as a Fort Collins mother, father and two 10-year-olds.
“Our grief cannot be defined and will be prolonged. But our memories of this amazing family will last forever,” said the statement of the Makepeace and Hickey families.
The family that died in the crash was Jeff Makepeace, 47, the owner of Lind’s Plumbing and Heating in Fort Collins; Jennifer Makepeace, 45; and Addison and Benjamin, both 10, who were fourth-graders at Bauder Elementary School in Fort Collins.
The family’s dog also was aboard the plane, according to the statement.
The family was flying from Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport to Moab, Utah, when the private plane crashed about 10 miles north of Glenwood Springs. It was last reported approximately nine miles north of Rifle near Baster Peak. An air search found debris from the crash north of Glenwood Springs shortly before noon Saturday.
Services are pending, according to the statement, which didn’t provide details. The family asked for privacy, the statement said.
One dead, one in custody after two-vehicle crash in Denver.
Denver police had one person in custody after a fatal crash involving two vehicles early Sunday at 14th Avenue and Franklin Street. One person died, John White, police spokesman, said. Someone originally reported the incident as a hit-and-run, but “officers managed to identify individuals involved,” White said. Police are looking at the possibility that drugs or alcohol were involved.