A lottery pool at an Ohio elementary school is celebrating a bittersweet victory after a $1 million Powerball win.

According to the Ohio Lottery, a lottery pool of employees at Ashland's Crestview Elementary School won $1 million in the Aug. 6 Powerball drawing. The win came after a member of the pool, Mary Jo, died from complications of cancer in 2021.

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Lottery officials say the pool organizer, Karen, purchased the winning auto-pick ticket at a Circle K in Seville. She told lottery officials that she was having coffee and checking their tickets when she realized they had won.

“I was talking to my daughter on the phone, and I was like, 'I think we won a million dollars!' I started texting everyone and they were lik

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