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Did you buy your lottery ticket yet? It’s one of the hottest commodities on the market right now. The other is firearms, but that’s a discussion for another day.

Powerball tickets, with the jackpot at $800 million (cash jackpot at $496 million), has prompted a lot of interest locally and across the country where the Powerball is in play.

Powerball is played in 44 states as well as the District of...