A Berkeley County woman whose computer-picked Powerball numbers matched five of six numbers on the winning $1.79 billion ticket drawn on Sept. 6 became one of 18 people to win $1 million in the national lottery.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey presented Mary Kathryn Hernandez, of Hedgesville, with an oversized, ceremonial $1 million check at West Virginia Lottery headquarters in Charleston on Monday for correctly picking all numbers except the Powerball number in the drawing.

On the day she bought the winning ticket, "I was taking Mom to pick up mail, but when we couldn't make the turn to the post office, I decided to stop [at the Hedgesville Road 7-Eleven store]" to turn around in the parking lot. While at the 7-Eleven, with the Powerball purse then surpassing the billion-dollar mark, "I decided

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