$3.7 million lottery winner may be from Ironton

IRONTON, Mo. -- An Ironton man may be the one who holds a Missouri Lotto ticket worth $3.7 million.

Someone purchased the winning ticket at the Jackson BP gas station before the Dec. 23 Lotto drawing.

Justin Holder, a manager at the Town and Country supermarket in Ironton, said Saturday a local man came in the store Wednesday to check the numbers on the ticket, and it was in fact the winning ticket. Holder did not have the man's name but said he was a resident of Ironton.

Calls to the Missouri Lottery offices were not answered Saturday, and no information on the winner of the $3.7 million prize was reported on the Lottery Web site.

-- Southeast Missourian