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Pittsburgh newsstand sold winning Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
Jackie Murray probably gave away $26 million Friday.The winning Powerball lottery ticket was sold at Nielsen's newsstand, at 2 PNC Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh, where Murray was working Friday. Store manager Bob Fulton said it is the first winning Powerball ticket sold Downtown since the multi-state lottery came to Pennsylvania in 2002.The winner hasn't claimed the prize, valued at about $26.4 million if the person takes the payout over 29 years. If the winner opts for a lump-sum payment, it's w
Jan 25, 2005, 1:51 pm - Lottery News

Suspicious lottery player wins big Powerball prizeNews Story
The possibility of winning big has kept Rod Jacobs buying Powerball tickets for years, even though he's always wondered if the lottery is rigged - that is, until last week when he and his roommate, Marian Mathewson, won $100,000 off a ticket Mathewson purchased at the McCammon Chevron in Idaho. Now I'm eating crow with a smile, Jacobs said.Jacobs said he'll probably put his share of the money in the bank because he already has everything he needs. But he said Mathewson, an avid quilter, bought
Jan 21, 2005, 2:48 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Lottery Jackpot Increased To $14 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 257,276 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.4 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $14 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 15 drawing will be an estimated $7.5 million.The numbers drawn were 21, 23, 27, 38, 50 and the Powerball was 38. The Power Play multiplier was 5.Five lucky players from Idaho, Minnes
Jan 13, 2005, 11:36 am - Lottery News

Nebraska Powerball winner shares $30.9 million jackpotNews Story
A man who turned two one-dollar bills into a multi-million-dollar windfall in Nebraska has claimed the prize -- more than two weeks after learning he'd won.Steven Herber had one of three tickets that matched all of the numbers drawn December 22nd in the Multi-State Lottery Association's Powerball game.Tickets bought in Arizona and Pennsylvania also matched all six numbers, meaning the $30.9 million jackpot must be split three ways.Herber chose the cash option worth $5,662,888.20.After state and
Jan 13, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Arizona couple claims one-third of $31 million Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
No Hummer. No mansion. No fancy clothes. Tim and Donna Sindel of Mesa, Arizona have better plans for the $3.9 million after taxes they won in a recent Powerball drawing. Theyre going to invest it, the couple said during a news conference at the Arizona Lotterys Phoenix office. We had the fantasies buy this, buy that, said Tim Sindel, who retired three years ago after 27 years as a Phoenix police officer. I want this money to work for me. Now their parents will be more comfortable. Their gra
Jan 13, 2005, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Woman and two children claim $171 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Florence Ayers, a Jackson, Pennsylvania bookkeeper who claimed the $93.4 million lump-sum cash prize from a $171.4 million Powerball jackpot, knows how to keep a secret.Ayers, 69, was so tight-lipped for five weeks about the winning ticket that neighbors and her employer, Jack Basilon, were stunned Wednesday when the state Lottery announced she had won the second largest jackpot in Pennsylvania history. The drawing was Dec. 8.Ayers abruptly quit work two weeks ago after 20 years on the job, whic
Jan 13, 2005, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin has double lottery jackpots for the first time everNews Story
Two big lottery jackpots were won in Wisconsin Saturday, the first time that winning tickets for the top prizes in Powerball and Megabucks were sold in the state on the same day, lottery officials said. That's never happened in 13 years since the games began, Andrew Bohage, a spokesman for the Wisconsin State Lottery, said Sunday. We haven't even figured out the odds of that happening. A customer at the Thiensville Mobil Mart in Ozaukee County beat odds of 1 in 120 million to win Saturday's $3
Jan 10, 2005, 10:43 am - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Bumps to $37 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 322,093 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.2 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $37 million.The cash option for the Saturday, January 8th drawing will be an estimated $20.4 million.The numbers drawn were 4, 7, 10, 30, 37 and the Powerball was 37. The Power Play multiplier was 5.One player from Washington DC matched
Jan 6, 2005, 2:57 pm - Lottery News

Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $28 MillionNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 375,185 players across the nation won a total of more than $4 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $28 million.The cash option for the Wednesday, January 5th drawing will be an estimated $15.5 million.The numbers drawn were 22, 23, 26, 44, 47 and the Powerball was 12. The Power Play multiplier was 5.Three players correctly matched the 5
Jan 3, 2005, 8:16 am - Lottery News

$21 Million Powerball Jackpot will Ring in the New YearNews Story
There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 347,311 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.7 million in prizes in America's Game.Because no one correctly matched all six numbers Wednesday, the jackpot will grow to an estimated $21 million for the New Year's drawing.The cash option for the Saturday, January 1 draw will be an estimated $11.7 million.The numbers drawn Wednesday were 24, 29, 33, 38, 44 and the Powerball was 7. The Power Play multiplier was 5.Two players corr
Dec 30, 2004, 9:06 am - Lottery News