Nebraska man claims $1M jackpot at SD casino

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — A Nebraska man has claimed a $1 million jackpot at Pine Ridge’s Prairie Wind Casino, where he’d spent part of Valentine’s Day with his wife of 60 years.

Gordon “Bud” Thompson, a retired railroad conductor from Alliance, Neb., said his wife Donna was the one playing at the casino. He decided to try a few spins on a nearby Freedom Rings machine as he waited for her to finish.

He put about $9 worth of quarters into the three-reel machine and hit a jackpot worth about $1,037,000.

“I didn’t even realize what had happened right away,” Thompson, 80, told K...