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$1 BILLION: Historic Powerball jackpot draw set for MondayNews Story
5th time a lottery jackpot has reached $1 billion By Todd Northrop The most commonly-heard phrase this week just might be, Did you get Powerball tickets? That's because nobody won the Powerball multi-state lottery drawing Saturday night, sending the Monday jackpot to heights only seen once before in the game's history. Monday's Powerball jackpot is currently estimated at $1 billion, with a lump-sum cash value of $497.3 million. And based on past multi-state lottery jackpots, th
Oct 30, 2022, 8:59 am - Lottery News

$825 MILLION: Powerball jackpot raised due to surging ticket salesNews Story
Still the 5th-largest lottery jackpot in US history, but cash value now 11th-biggest ever By Todd Northrop Due to larger than expected sales volume, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official Powerball lottery jackpot estimate for Saturday's drawing to $825 million. The all-important lump-sum cash value of the jackpot has been raised to $410.2 million. The newly-increased jackpot amount still ranks as the 5th-largest ever recorded in United States lottery
Oct 28, 2022, 11:39 am - Lottery News

$800 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges on rolloverNews Story
5th-largest jackpot in US history By Todd Northrop This week Powerball is the hot ticket, featuring a massive jackpot that is approaching a billion dollars. The new high-water mark of $800 million for the current Powerball annuity jackpot estimate was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's $715.3 million grand prize. It is the 5th-highest lottery jackpot in history, and the 2nd-largest Powerball jackpot ever. The lump-sum cash payout value of Satu
Oct 27, 2022, 7:13 am - Lottery News

$680 MILLION: Powerball jackpot now 10th-largest in historyNews Story
By Todd Northrop This week lottery players across the United States will be pulling out all the stops to try and win Powerball, featuring one of the largest lottery jackpots in history, worth an estimated $680 million. If you feel like it's been a long time since Powerball last had a jackpot winner you'd be right. Powerball has seen 35 consecutive drawings since the last winner on August 3 a 3-month stretch. All those drawings have accumulated a massive pile of cash, ready to provide
Oct 25, 2022, 7:52 am - Lottery News

$610 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot largest in ten monthsNews Story
13th-largest US lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After a 34th-consecutive drawing without a winner, the Powerball multi-state lottery game now features a jackpot that will provide multi-generational wealth to the lucky player who eventually wins it all. After nobody won Saturday's $591.3 million grand prize, the Powerball jackpot increased to a staggering $610 million for Monday's drawing the 13th-largest US lottery jackpot of all time. But since most winners choose th
Oct 23, 2022, 9:43 am - Lottery News

Winning $502 million Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Florida region pummeled by hurricaneNews Story
One winner in Fort Myers hits the jackpot weeks after Hurricane Ian ravaged the area By Kate Northrop One of the two winning tickets for the $502 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot drawn on Fri., Oct. 14, 2022 was sold in hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers, Florida. Weeks after Hurricane Ian ripped through the southwestern coast of Florida, someone in Fort Myers bought a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $502 million. According to the Mega Millions officials, the jackpot is
Oct 17, 2022, 12:48 pm - Lottery News

Mega Millions and Powerball lottery jackpots both top $300 millionNews Story
Two near-equal jackpots up for grabs this weekend By Kate Northrop This weekend, lottery players will have two equally large jackpots to consider, with both multi-state games Mega Millions and Powerball surpassing the $300 million mark. In the gold corner... we have Mega Millions at $355 million for the Friday, Sept. 30 drawing at 11:00 pm EST. In the red corner... is Powerball at $322 million for the Saturday, Oct. 1 drawing at 10:59 pm EST. Joking aside, one of the questions wi
Sep 30, 2022, 5:13 pm - Lottery News

Two Illinois lottery winners in a partnership claim $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Winners split behemoth win within timeframe to claim cash prize By Kate Northrop Two winners in a partnership have come forward to claim the eye-watering $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot that was drawn in July 2022. One single ticket was all it took to win the record $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot on July 29, 2022, but two people jointly stepped forward to claim it all. Today, the Illinois Lottery announced that the prize has officially been claimed, shared by a partnersh
Sep 21, 2022, 3:58 pm - Lottery News

Lottery ticket birthday gift from mother-in-law won N.H. woman $1 millionNews Story
A New Hampshire woman celebrated her birthday by winning a $1 million lottery prize. On Aug. 19, Shannon Mee of Derry, New Hampshire, claimed a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery's $10,000,000 Bonus Wins instant ticket game. Mee's mother-in-law had given her the lottery ticket as a birthday gift. It was purchased at Richdale Food Shops in Canton, which is located at 2160 Washington St. She chose to receive her prize in the form of a one-time payment of $650,000 b
Sep 7, 2022, 8:45 am - Lottery News

Brothers smash father's car with hammers after he refuses to share £3.1 million lottery prizeNews Story
Sons of lottery winner relay details of fallout years after the win By Kate Northrop A brand-new car bore the brunt of two brothers' frustration after their father refused to share his 3.1 million (US$3.6 million) EuroMillions lottery prize with them. Two sons decided it was hammer time and smashed their father's car with claw hammers when they did not receive a penny of their father's lottery winnings. In 2012, a group of Stagecoach workers from Corby, Northamptonshire won and s
Aug 29, 2022, 2:38 pm - Lottery News