TOPEKA, Kan. – A Kansas woman won a $500,000 prize and five other lottery players from Iowa and Kansas won $10,000 prizes Friday in a joint drawing by the Kansas and Iowa lotteries.

Sandra Vines of Wichita, Kan., was selected as the top-prize winner of $500,000 in the "Midwest Millions" drawing conducted Friday by lottery officials at Kansas Lottery headquarters in Topeka, Kan. Five winners of $10,000 prizes, three of whom were Iowans, also were selected in the drawing. A second drawing in the game is scheduled for April in Iowa.

"It's very appropriate Iowa and Kansas are working together on this scratch game," Larry Montgomery said as he selected the grand prize winner in the drawing. Montgomery served as the Kansas Lottery's first executive director when it began operations in 1987. "All of these joint efforts do one thing for the players and both lotteries: They provide more money."