Here you go boys and girls :
Muldrow couple win $105 millionBy Julie Bisbee
Staff Writer
After 2 million miles, the tractor-trailer rig that's provided a living for Don and Joyce Harvey of Muldrow finally gave out this week.
A new truck is on the way, though, thanks to a $105.8 million Powerball ticket.
The couple found out Thursday night they'd won Wednesday night's drawing when Joyce Harvey saw the numbers on the Internet.
She didn't believe her eyes, so she made her husband double-check.
"We were just in absolute disbelief,” Joyce Harvey said Friday afternoon, as the couple sat looking bewildered before cameras and reporters.
The couple will take home a lump sum of $33.3 million after 29 percent taxes are taken out. Federal tax on the money is 25 percent, and the state gets 4 percent, or about $2 million, according to lottery officials.
The ticket is the second Powerball jackpot winner bought in Oklahoma since the state started participating in the program in January 2006.
So far, the Harveys are the largest winners. But even with money in the bank, they say their lives aren't going to change much.
Don Harvey, originally from Cadott, Wis., said he'll continue driving a truck.
"That's just what I do. Trucking is my life and has been for years,” he said. "I can't fish every day, and I don't play golf.”
"He'll quit when I pry his cold, dead hands from the wheel,” Joyce Harvey said.
The Harveys said they plan to use the money to buy a new rig, pay debts and help their family.
They've always been tight with money, and they say that's not going to change.
"We're pretty satisfied with our life,” Don Harvey said.
However, being debt-free will be nice, Joyce Harvey said.
The Harveys have been partners in trucking as well as matrimony for 20 years. Don, 64, is the driver, and Joyce, 50, is the dispatcher.
They put 2 million miles on the 1989 Freightliner before it broke down Wednesday, and they spent a good portion of those miles buying Powerball tickets.
Now with a few million in the bank, Don Harvey is eyeing a more expensive truck, but it won't be brand new.
It's not worth it to buy a brand new truck and waste money on depreciation, he said.
"I'm thinking maybe a Mack or a Volvo,” he said.
Long before Oklahoma had a lottery, the Harveys were players, sometimes driving as far as Missouri to pick their lucky numbers.
For years they had been playing with the same set of numbers, picking up tickets as they drove across the country.
After the numbers came up wrong on a ticket, Joyce Harvey decided to start using that sequence.
The numbers 9-11-13-24-43, with 18 as the Powerball number came through.
"We used to call it our dream ticket,” Joyce Harvey said.
"We buy a ticket and dream about what we'd do with the money. Then you would see somebody else win, and you'd start all over again.”
This time the Harveys can start all over again with a few more zeros behind their name, and they've still got luck left.
The Harveys said they'll keep playing the lottery and probably continue to buy their tickets in the same place.
They bought the winning ticket at a Shell station on Interstate 40 in Roland, near the Arkansas state line.
The couple made an appearance at the store Friday morning on their way to claim their prize in Oklahoma City.
"I asked the girl if they had some excitement the day before,” Joyce Harvey said.
"She said somebody had won the Powerball and hadn't claimed it. She said, ‘If they don't claim it, I'll claim it myself.' I laughed and told her that was a great idea.”
