Heights Lotto Winner Collects

We love the Historic Houston Heights. We admit it. And pretty much any news about it, for Houstonist, is good news. On Feb. 8, someone got some very good news and won the $64 million Texas Lotto grand prize and the ticket came from a Heights-area store.

Houstonist could think of many things to do with $64 million and most of them have to do with gadgets, but we're happy for this unnamed individual who is wisely having the winnings placed in an anonymous trust fund.

The convenience store on Yale near 26th that handed out the winning ticket collected $500,00 for its efforts in one of the last jackpots of the bonus ball lottery.

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