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Wednesday night's drawing, South Dakota lottery officials said. The odds of winning the $1 million second prize are one in about 5.2 million.
• Each of the 28 winning workers will receive about $27,000 after taxes.
• Greg McCloskey, of Sioux Falls, who claimed the prize on behalf of the coworkers, said the group usually begins to pool money when the jackpot reaches a certain level.
• "When the jackpot hits about $200 million, I walk through the office and see who wants to throw in $5 into the pool for tickets," McClosky said in a statement. "We've been doing it for about two or three years. This is by far the most we've ever won."
• Natalie Watson, of Sioux Falls, who is in charge of purchasing the tickets, discovered the winning ticket when she got to work Thursday morning.
• "Nobody believed we won," she said. "Most everyone in the pool was already at work so I just went around and started telling them."
• A ticket sold in Rapid City won a $10,000 prize in the drawing. The ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and missed the Powerball to win the third prize. The odds are one in about 649,000.
• Powerball is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot has ballooned to $475 million for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. John Thune says the National Park Service has reversed a decision to close a campground at Wind Cave National Park in southwestern South Dakota.
• Officials announced in March that they were closing the Elk Mountain Campground due to automatic federal spending cuts that took effect that month. The decision drew the ire of Thune and others.
• The South Dakota Republican says the decision to open the campground for the summer season is "a victory for park visitors."
• A park spokesman did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Officials say a fire at the Rapid City landfill that is producing heavy smoke could continue for days.
• The fire began early Thursday in the yard waste recycling area of the landfill. Fire crews are allowing it to burn out while they keep it contained to that area. The fire

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