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New knees for North Carolina $150,000 Powerball winnerNews Story
Lucky winner will be able to pay for essential surgery By Kate Northrop A North Carolina lottery player will be able to get knee replacement surgery after winning a $150,000 Powerball prize. Ronda Isaac, 57, of Lincolnton, North Carolina, will be finally able to undergo a long-awaited double knee replacement surgery thanks to the $150,000 Powerball prize she scooped up earlier this month. I finally get my new knees, she laughed. When you work standing up all the time, that's pret
Jan 16, 2023, 3:17 pm - Lottery News

Group of 78 emergency room staff members claim $1 million Powerball prizeNews Story
By Kate Northrop A 78-member lottery group consisting of nurses, doctors, and other emergency room personnel from Traverse City, Michigan have claimed a $1 million Powerball prize. On Thursday, the Michigan Lottery held a press event to award The Heroes to Zeroooos Lottery Club with their $1 million Powerball prize after they matched all five white balls in the Oct. 31, 2022 drawing. According to lottery club coordinator, Bernard Bossert Jr., the club has been buying tickets for abou
Jan 6, 2023, 12:49 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina man is Powerball First Millionaire of the YearNews Story
Daughter collects the year's first million-dollar prize on behalf of her father By Kate Northrop A North Carolina man was the first lottery player to be named a newly minted millionaire in 2023 during ABC's broadcast of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Secrest 2023. Just after the clock struck midnight, Gary Krigbaum of Spindale, North Carolina, won $1 million in the Powerball First Millionaire of the Year promotion and became the first person in 2023 to win a million d
Jan 2, 2023, 9:49 pm - Lottery News

Minnesota Lottery confirms technical communications error delayed $2 billion Powerball drawingNews Story
Lottery staff and vendors overloaded by sales data By Kate Northrop The Minnesota Lottery confirmed yesterday that the cause for the delayed $2 billion Powerball drawing was a technical communications error brought on by an overwhelming amount of sales data. If you recall the Powerball fever that took over the nation this past week, you'll also remember the ten-hour delay before the drawing took place. When the drawing did finally occur Tuesday morning, it turns out that just one
Nov 11, 2022, 4:03 pm - Lottery News

One lottery ticket sold in California wins $2 billion Powerball jackpotNews Story
Lump-sum cash option worth $997.6 million By Todd Northrop Around the United States, millions of people had to wait an extra ten hours last night to find out if they won the unbelievably massive Powerball jackpot, due to one unnamed state's inability to deal with the huge amount of ticket sales data. When the drawing did finally occur Tuesday morning, it turns out that just one ticket sold in California matched all six numbers drawn and won the entire jackpot. After all sales we
Nov 8, 2022, 1:00 pm - Lottery News

Record $1.9 billion Powerball drawing delayed until TuesdayNews Story
By Todd Northrop One of the most hotly-anticipated lottery drawings of all time never happened Monday night, as lottery officials were scrambling to process the massive amount of ticket sales data generated by the record $1.9 billion jackpot. Officials now estimate that the drawing should kick off sometime Tuesday morning. A specific time has not been set. The delay was initially caused by one participating lottery that needed extra time to complete required security protocols, the C
Nov 8, 2022, 6:27 am - Lottery News

$1.9 BILLION POWERBALL JACKPOT SETS WORLD RECORD OF UNIMAGINABLE WEALTHNews Story
Jaw-dropping prize money on the line for Monday drawing Cash option nearly $1 billion By Todd Northrop Last night Powerball didn't just set a new lottery jackpot record, it crushed the old record, putting the concept of a $2 billion lottery jackpot within reach. When the 40th drawing of the current Powerball jackpot run was conducted last night, it produced a combination of numbers that most lottery players typically wouldn't choose on their own: All the numbers except one were
Nov 6, 2022, 7:36 am - Lottery News

$1.6 BILLION: Powerball jackpot sets all-time record as ticket sales surge across the USANews Story
Massive sales triggers jackpot increase to #1 all-time 3rd-largest cash value in history By Todd Northrop Due to a ticket-buying frenzy for Saturday's Powerball drawing, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official Powerball lottery jackpot estimate to $1.6 billion, setting the record for the largest lottery jackpot in history. The all-important lump-sum cash value of the jackpot has been raised to $782.4 million, which is the third-largest lottery cash valu
Nov 4, 2022, 12:04 pm - Lottery News

$1.5 BILLION: Powerball jackpot nears all-time recordNews Story
3rd-largest lottery jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Last night, the multi-state Powerball lottery game produced no top winner for the 39th consecutive drawing, prompting lottery officials to raise the game's jackpot to a near-record $1.5 billion. A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $745.9 million three-quarters of a billion dollars in cash! It's the stuff that a lottery player's dreams are made of holding a lottery ticket for an upcoming Powerb
Nov 3, 2022, 7:08 am - Lottery News

$1.2 BILLION: Powerball jackpot grows to 4th-largest in historyNews Story
Powerball ticket-buying frenzy this week 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 $1.2 billion. The Powerball jackpot has been building for 38 consecutive drawings since the last winner on Aug. 6. All those drawings have accumulated a massive pile of cash, ready to provide multi-generational wealth to the lucky lottery pla
Nov 1, 2022, 8:14 am - Lottery News