Fortunate Lexington man wins $1 million recently in Powerball lottery

A Lexington man is $1 million richer after winning the lottery.

The man, who chose to remain anonymous, won the $1 million on a Powerball ticket sold at Crossroads IGA on Abagail Way on Aug. 31.

The winner told lottery officials he has been picking the same numbers for years, consisting of a combination of family birthdays.

He only checks tickets on occasion and had a stack of tickets going all the way back to June when he sat down Monday night to go through them.

“I had gone through about 40 tickets and got to the last five to see if I had any winners."

"I was looking at the numbers on my phone when suddenly I saw the numbers I had always been playing."