Winning $494M lottery ticket sold in city battered by Ian

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A winning lottery ticket worth a share of a $494 million Mega Millions jackpot was purchased in a southwest Florida city hammered by Hurricane Ian late last month. Florida lottery officials on Monday (Oct. 17, 2022) said one of the two winning tickets was purchased at a 7-11 in Fort Myers. The other winning ticket was bought in California. Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 28, 2022, and has been blamed for more than 100 fatalities in the state, making it the third-deadliest storm to hit the U.S. mainland this century.