$310 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot in rare territory
By Todd Northrop
For only the 13th time in the history of United States lotteries, a lottery jackpot run-up has crossed into $300 million+ territory.
The new high-water mark of $310 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's $250 million grand prize.
The lump-sum cash payout value of Saturday's Powerball jackpot is $193.4 million.
The mammoth prize is the result of 13 draws without a winner. The run-up started as a ...
Yesterday, 7:43 am - Lottery News forum
$250 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot ramps up
By Todd Northrop
There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $250 million for Wednesday's drawing.
Saturday was the 12th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.
The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $156 Million. After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state at USA Mega, a web site devoted to the Powerball and Mega Millions multi-state lottery games ...
Feb 5, 2012, 7:50 am - Lottery News forum
$200 MILLION: New Powerball delivers huge lottery jackpot
By Todd Northrop
There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $200 million for Saturday's drawing.
Wednesday was the 11th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner the fifth since the game format, prizes, and price changed.
The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $125.1 million. After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state at USA Mega, a web site devote ...
Feb 2, 2012, 7:18 am - Lottery News forum
Connecticut lottery winners settle $1 million battle
Money doesn't always buy happiness especially when it involves two friends fighting over a winning Powerball ticket.
Last week, Armando Martins, a drywall installer from Trumbull and Nino Nascimento, a local mason, agreed to settle their three-year legal battle in state Superior Court over a $1 million winning ticket.
Under the terms of the settlement, reached before Judge Barbara Bellis, Martins will get $630,000 while Nascimento gets $370,000.
Both Martins and Nascimento declined comm ...
Jan 30, 2012, 7:41 am - Lottery News forum
New Mexico ticket wins Powerball's first $1M second prize
Includes video report
By Todd Northrop
Last night the Powerball multi-state lottery held its first draw using its new prize structure, and a New Mexico Lottery player has the distinction of winning the first non-multiplied second-prize ticket worth $1 million.
The winning ticket matches the white ball numbers of 6, 29, 34, 44, and 50. The ticket missed the red Powerball of 28 for the night's $80 million jackpot.
This is the nation's first $1 million Powerball prize following Sunday's ...
Jan 19, 2012, 12:10 pm - Lottery News forum
Pa. couple claims $128 million Powerball jackpot
Ticket purchased in Maryland; state's 2nd-largest jackpot
By Todd Northrop, sourced from press release
An excited Pennsylvania couple arrived at Maryland Lottery Headquarters Friday, accompanied by legal counsel, to claim their $128.8 million Powerball prize.
The elated twosome, who chose to remain anonymous, had the only winning ticket for the Christmas Eve Powerball drawing. The couple's Quick Pick ticket containing the numbers 14, 16, 30, 51, 52, with Powerball number 19, matched all ...
Jan 7, 2012, 8:24 am - Lottery News forum
Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpots
By Todd Northrop, with AP wire sources
Powerball lottery organizers are betting that bigger jackpots will entice more people to play, but gamblers are going to have to dig deeper into their wallets to try their luck.
Game changes that have been in the works for months perhaps years are finally going into effect this month.
(See Changes coming to Powerball multi-state lottery game in January, Lottery Post, Jun. 27, 2011.)
Tickets for the multi-state game are doubling in price to $2 be ...
Jan 3, 2012, 9:40 am - Lottery News forum
Missouri lottery winner wins again
Powerball player is also double-lucky
Only twice in the history of the Missouri Lottery has a player won two prizes of $1 million or more. A Bonne Terre man won on two Scratchers tickets in 2010, and now a southwest Missouri man has won two multi-million dollar Scratchers prizes in 2011.
Roger Hirshey, 66, claimed a $2 million top prize on a Mega MONOPOLY ticket on Dec. 19. The Carthage resident bought the winning ticket at Casey's General Store, 8084 E. Seventh St., in Duenweg.
This is ...
Dec 23, 2011, 9:19 am - Lottery News forum
$77M Powerball lottery ticket to expire Monday
What would you do if you won a $77 million lottery jackpot? What would you do if you didn't discover that you had the winning ticket until AFTER the deadline for claiming the prize?
That's the scenario that could play out next week, because the 180-day window for the Georgia Lottery player who won the June 29 Powerball jackpot to come forward slams shut on Monday.
That winning ticket, with the numbers 24, 30, 45, 57, and 59, with Powerball number 26, was sold at the Pilot Travel Center tru ...
Dec 22, 2011, 9:15 am - Lottery News forum
Kentucky store clerk wins $200,000 from duplicate lottery ticket
Someone out there has the other ticket worth $200,000
David Lee Franey owns four Franey's Food Mart locations in Owensboro. From time to time, one of his clerks will misprint a Kentucky Lottery ticket. Instead of going through the hassle of filing paperwork for a $1 ticket, I just always tell my clerks to tape them on the side of the terminal and I'll eat the cost myself, Franey said.
Little did he know yesterday that a $200,000 winning Powerball ticket had been taped to the side of the te ...
Dec 16, 2011, 4:45 pm - Lottery News forum
