Utah gamblers head to Idaho for lottery tickets

Monday, Aug. 13, 2001 | 10:34 a.m.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's unofficial lottery -- the Idaho Powerball -- is expected to top out at $100 million by Wednesday night's drawing, and service stations along the border are seeing a lot of ticket buyers from Utah.

K.C. Spackman, manager of La Tienda, in Franklin, Idaho, 20 miles north of Logan and less than a mile from the Utah border, estimates that at least 4,000 customers -- 95 percent of them from Utah -- bought Powerball tickets there by Sunday afternoon.

Seven people came within one number of winning Saturday's prize by matching five numbers but missing on the Powerball.

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