Tennessee man loses $1m lottery ticket – then finds it in a parking lot

Nick Slatten found his missing ticket on the ground outside an auto store he had visited with his brother

A man in Tennessee was stunned to find he had won $1m with a lottery ticket, only to discover he had somehow lost it while running errands in the wake of sharing the news with his fiancee and family.

But, thankfully, the story has a happy ending as Nick Slatten of Sparta, a small town in the eastern part of the state, retraced the steps he had taken throughout the day and eventually found the missing ticket in a parking lot where he had taken his brother to visit an auto store.