Single winning ticket sold for $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot
A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing, the game says.
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A single ticket sold in Illinois won the biggest Powerball jackpot of the year, $1.04 billion, in Wednesday night's drawing, the game says.
No winning tickets were sold for Monday night's $905 million Powerball jackpot, so the estimated grand prize for Wednesday's drawing will be at least $1 billion.
A lucky Georgian's $5 ticket has won them $4 million after they picked most of numbers in Tuesday's Mega Millions lottery.
A Dawson man has been charged with forgery and theft for allegedly stealing more than $72,000 from the Georgia Lottery with a fraudulent check.
Two Sparta brothers have been sentenced to 20 years in prison after a multi-county Georgia Lottery fraud scheme involving arcade-style gaming machines.
Georgians have another shot at lottery history on Christmas Eve, as the Powerball jackpot climbs to an estimated $1.7 billion.
The Powerball jackpot leaped to an estimated $1.5 billion after no one won Wednesday night's pot of gold of approximately $1.25 billion.
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A Mega Millions player in Georgia has won the $980 million jackpot, overcoming abysmal odds to take the huge prize.
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There's a flaw in Georgia's voting equipment that can allow voters to be matched to their ballots after they've been cast.
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Gerald Crawford died in 2020 when a tree fell on his southwest Atlanta home shortly before he was set to take the bar exam. His family and friends have since awarded about $30,000 to high school and college students through a foundation bearing his name.
Family, friends and fellow police recruits gathered Friday to remember a 24-year-old Atlanta Police Department recruit who was killed in a motorcycle crash.