Man searches fields, trash bins for lottery ticket
 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A $25,000 lottery ticket was easy money for Mike Sargent -- until he lost it.

Then it meant days of searching fields and ditches -- even sifting through a trash bin -- before help arrived from an unexpected source.

Sargent scratched off the winning Wheel of Fortune ticket November 15 at a convenience-store counter in his hometown of Alvarado, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth. He signed the ticket and filled in his name and address as he called his wife and said he was bringing her the best Christmas present ever.

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