'Simple Mistake' Caused Mass. Lottery To Misidentify Which Store Sold Powerball Winner
The executive director of the Massachusetts Lottery addressed an error in identifying which store sold a record-setting Powerball ticket.
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The executive director of the Massachusetts Lottery addressed an error in identifying which store sold a record-setting Powerball ticket.
The owners of a Watertown store had a wild and emotional ride of ecstatic highs and crushing lows Thursday morning.
Many compared the Mass. Lottery's big mistake to the TV hosts's Miss Universe blunder.
Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots so far and the states where the winning tickets were sold:
The Powerball jackpot is reaching record territory ahead of Wednesday night's drawing.
The Powerball jackpot is now estimated at $650 million, the highest since the world-record setting $1.586 billion jackpot won in January 2016.
This Saturday's Powerball winning numbers have been drawn.
The Powerball jackpot is once again reaching eye-popping heights.
The Powerball jackpot is now worth more than half-a-billion dollars!
There were no winners in the latest Powerball drawing, so the jackpot has jumped to $356 million.
Lottery players are watching not one, but two huge jackpots this week.
A single winning Powerball ticket matching all six numbers was sold in California and will claim an estimated $447.8 million jackpot, lottery officials said.
A giant Powerball jackpot is getting even bigger.
Lottery officials say it's the 12th-biggest jackpot in Powerball history.
After nobody won Saturday night's Powerball jackpot, the prize in Wednesday's drawing has risen to $375 million.
The Powerball jackpot is growing after no one matched every number in Wednesday night's drawing.
After nobody matched the numbers drawn Saturday night, the jackpot in Wednesday's drawing has gone up to an estimated $302 million.
A Florida man visiting family in Massachusetts for a wedding will go home with a million dollars.
There was just one winning ticket sold in Wednesday night's $435 million Powerball drawing and it was in Indiana.
The winning Powerball numbers have been drawn for the jackpot that's climbed above $400 million for the first time in nearly three months.
The Powerball jackpot has Jon thinking - is great wealth all it's cracked up to be?
With no winner drawn on Saturday night, the Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $403 million.
The Powerball jackpot grew to an estimated $349 million after there were no winners picked from Wednesday night's drawing.
There's nothing wrong with a little two-dollar daydream, is there?
It's the biggest jackpot since last November, when a $420.9 million winning ticket was sold in Tennessee.
