A Bagley man has claimed a $50,000 Powerball prize after turning in a winning ticket he purchased on his birthday last week. Fifty-five-year-old Jeff Bauer matched four of five white balls and the Powerball in the Jan. 8 drawing to win and was only one number away from a share of the $258 million jackpot. Bauer, who purchased the ticket at Hometown Foods in Panora last Tuesday, says ““I felt like, ‘Maybe I’ll be lucky on my birthday,’ so the day before the drawing I bought a couple tickets.” He did not know one of those was a winner until he heard someone had won the $50,000 prize a few days later. With nobody claiming last week’s top prize, the jackpot now sits at $296 million for tonight’s (Wednesday) drawing.
