Woman recovers lottery ticket she threw away and ends up winning top prize

A Kentucky woman has won the state lottery after nearly losing the winning ticket by throwing it in the trash.

Pamela Howard-Thornton of Shepherdsville, not far south of Louisville, bought four tickets for the Flamingo Bingo scratch-off game at a rest stop store in nearby Lebanon Junction after having a dream about winning a large jackpot.

“I just had this premonition – go get that ticket,” she told lottery officials…

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