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$422 MILLION: Powerball climbs again on rolloverNews Story
8th-largest cash value in US history By Todd Northrop This week Powerball will be the hot ticket, featuring a lump-sum cash payout of nearly $300 million. The new high-water mark of $422 million for the current Powerball annuity jackpot estimate was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $391.1 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is $290 million the 8th-largest ever recorded in United States lottery history. (
Jul 24, 2016, 11:26 am - Lottery News

$361 MILLION: Powerball rolls againNews Story
10th-largest cash value in US history By Todd Northrop This week Powerball will be the hot ticket, currently featuring the largest lottery jackpot in the world. The new high-water mark of $361 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Saturday night's $335.5 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Wednesday's Powerball jackpot is $250.3 million the 10th-largest ever recorded in United States lottery history. (See top
Jul 17, 2016, 10:51 pm - Lottery News

$333 MILLION: Powerball offers up summertime richesNews Story
Cash value powers to 11th-largest of all time By Todd Northrop This month it's not just the weather and backyard barbecue that've been hot Lottery jackpots also continue to sizzle. After a long string of Mega Millions rollovers that culminated in a $540 million Indiana winner, Powerball has taken center stage with a massive jackpot that rolled over again last night. The new high-water mark of $333 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were so
Jul 14, 2016, 11:14 am - Lottery News

Indiana lottery ticket wins $540 million Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Updated: Added location where winning ticket was sold By Todd Northrop One winning ticket sold in The Hoosier State beat the odds and matched all the numbers drawn in Friday's Mega Millions drawing to win the colossal $540 million jackpot. The numbers that single lottery ticket from Indiana matched in Friday's drawing were 8, 19, 20, 55, and 73, with Mega Ball number 5. The winning ticket was purchased at the Speedway at 1589 N State Road 1 in Cambridge City, Indiana. The lucky ti
Jul 9, 2016, 8:52 am - Lottery News

$540 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot raised on huge salesNews Story
Cash value leaps to 5th-largest ever Update: Top-25 cash value list updated to include current Powerball jackpot; bumps The Big Game off the list By Todd Northrop A rush of ticket sales for the half-billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Friday night drawing to $540 million. The all-important lump-sum cash value is now estimated to be a staggering $380 million propelling it to the fifth-largest cash value offered by any lo
Jul 7, 2016, 12:31 pm - Lottery News

$508 MILLION: Mega jackpot to spark ticket-buying frenzyNews Story
Half-billion jackpot is 7th-largest of all time By Todd Northrop July 4th is behind us, but some lucky person still has their Independence Day ahead of them independence from financial burdens, that is. After an unprecedented 34 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of more than a half-billion dollars that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. After nobody won Tuesday night's grand
Jul 6, 2016, 9:13 am - Lottery News

$454 million jackpot driving Mega Million ticket salesNews Story
By Todd Northrop With strong sales around the country, the estimated jackpot for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing has been raised to $454 million, with a lump-sum cash option of $319 million cash. It's the third largest jackpot in Mega Millions history and the seventh-largest jackpot ever seen in US lottery history. The jackpot has been growing since it was last won on March 8 by Michael Burkett in Washington, who received a $157 million prize. The only other jackpot won this ye
Jul 5, 2016, 3:18 pm - Lottery News

$415 MILLION: 3rd-largest Mega Millions jackpot everNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery players across the United States will be lining up at lottery retailers for their chance to win Friday's massive $415 million Mega Millions jackpot, after nobody won Tuesday's $390 million grand prize. The cash value stands at a staggering $286.4 million. With the new Friday jackpot, both the annuity jackpot and lump-sum cash value are now in the top 10 United States lottery jackpots of all time. The annuity and cash values are also the third-largest Mega Millio
Jun 29, 2016, 10:12 am - Lottery News

$390 MILLION: Huge Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs tonightNews Story
8th-largest cash value jackpot in U.S. history By Todd Northrop After an astounding 31 drawings without a grand prize winner, Mega Millions features an enormous jackpot promising multi-generational wealth to a ticketholder with enough luck to overcome the 1 in 259 million odds stacked against them. In the Friday night Mega Millions drawing no player won the top prize, increasing the jackpot estimate for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing to $390 million, with a lump-sum cash option o
Jun 28, 2016, 9:40 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner's gift will help small Missouri communityNews Story
Includes video report A town in Missouri is celebrating its new state-of-the-art fire facility, but the community's lottery millionaires are humble about what they did to make it happen. The building, which took more than a year to build, houses both the ambulance service and the community's fire trucks. The project would not have happened if fire volunteers hadn't twice saved Mark Hill's father's life. My wife and I were able to pay them back, Hill said Hill and his family won n
Jun 27, 2016, 9:30 am - Lottery News