Winning Ticket Bought in Minden

Lottery officials say someone in Minden purchased the winning Louisiana Lotto ticket for last night's drawing while the winning easy 5 ticket was purchased in Gretna. The Louisiana Lotto jackpot was $700,000. The Easy 5 prize was $140,000. The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says 17 Lotto tickets had five of the six numbers drawn. Each of those is worth almost $2,000. Both jackpots start over for Saturday's draws, the Lotto jackpot will an estimated $250,000 and the Easy 5 jackpot will be $50,000.