3 Women Vying for Ownership of $1 Million Lottery Ticket

By CHRISTINA NG

A winning $1 million lottery ticket picked out of a gas station trash can has become the subject of a three-way legal battle in Arkansas.

Sharon Jones claimed the prize after taking the ticket from a bin of discarded lottery stubs. (Arkansas Lottery Commission

Sharon Jones was at a Super One Stop in July 2011 in Bebee, Ark., when she went to a trash bin to pick up a handful of discarded lottery tickets, as she had done many times before, according to her attorneys.

A program through the lottery commission website allows people to register non-winning tickets for points that they can use to work towards prizes.

"On Sunday, as was a routine, my client and her husband sit around and enter these tickets in the program," Jones' attorney Winston Collier told ABCNews.com. "[The program] wouldn't give them points on this one ticket in particular."

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