 A Bemidji man is more than $500,000 richer today thanks to a lucky lottery ticket he bought in town. Michael Shelton of Bemidji reportedly drove down to the Minnesota Lottery headquarters in Roseville to claim the $549,000 prize today. His winning ticket matched all five numbers drawn in the go for five game. Shelton bought the ticket at the Orton's Bemidji Senex on Paul Bunyan Drive. Employees say he's a regular and learned about the news this morning from the store manager. We come in and checked his ticket and it said call the state lottery office and went and showed my manager and she ran it and first of all she said it was only a hundred thousand dollars but it's big one the 450,000 or whatever it is so he was pretty excited he went outside and started hollering and hooping and hollering and jumping up and down. Another winning ticket worth $30,000 was sold in Niswa last night. Lottery winners have one year to claim their prizes.