Powerball Jackpot Reaches Another New Record: $600 Million
Lottery officials with the multi-state Powerball game have raised the expected total for tomorrow night's jackpot to $600 million, the largest in the game's history
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The frenzy for last minute tickets is over. The numbers have been picked out. Somewhere, a single person is $590 million richer. Last night's record Powerball jackpot has a winner but we have no idea who that person is yet.
Lottery officials with the multi-state Powerball game have raised the expected total for tomorrow night's jackpot to $600 million, the largest in the game's history
Powerball, the ubiquitous lottery game, finally arrived in California on Monday, and began to spread its enticing message of easy, instant fortune to residents of the Golden State.
This Tuesday is stressful — what with the Supreme Court tension and North Korea wanting to meet us at the flagpole at 3 p.m. It's all a bit much, really. So you should probably meet Pedro Quezada, the immigrant father from New Jersey who just won the $338.3 million lotto jackpot.
Matthew Good: that's the name of the guy who crushed your dreams of winning half of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot.
We know you were hoping for a Powerball winner to hate, with the first winning couple turning out to be the sweetest ever, but the second person, who has finally claimed the prize, doesn't want to go public.
The Arizona winner of the Powerball jackpot is yet to be identified, but security camera footage may have captured him on the other side of the country — and captured the exact moment that he discovered he was millionaire.
Everyone who knows them says the first winners are pretty awesome people, and we now know that least one of their mothers is almost absurdly adorable.
Lottery officials say that two tickets had the winning combination in last night's record-busting Powerball drawing—one in Arizona and one in Missouri—halving the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
The tens of thousands of people hoping you got all of your numbers wrong have made tonight's drawing an unavoidable thing, thanks to the numbers being bandied about on social media.
Lottery officials, reveling in a master plan to goose jackpots, just announced that the next Powerball jackpot will be at least $500 million — and with more than 24 hours to go before the drawing, it could go even higher than that.
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