$785M Mega Millions prize is 6th largest in US history
An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot set for Tuesday night will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang.
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An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot set for Tuesday night will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang.
Top prize amount was $41 million in Saturday's draw
Powerball fever may be over, but the money is still rolling in.
One extremely lucky person in California has won the record-setting $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot.
The new jackpot tops the previous record prize of $1.586 billion won in 2016 by three Powerball players in California, Florida and Tennessee.
Winners of giant jackpots nearly always take the cash, and financial advisers say that might be a mistake.
The next draw is on Oct. 26.
It was an itch to get rich. One customer at a small Auburn store just scratched his way into multi-millionaire status.
An Auburn man who went out to buy a new pair of shorts is now $20 million richer thanks to an extremely lucky Scratchers ticket.
The cash value option of Friday's jackpot is $742.2 million.
A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the top prize.
The Mega Millions jackpot has ballooned to $630 million after there were no winners to match Tuesday's winning six numbers.
The Mega Millions jackpot has ballooned to $630 million after there were no winners to match Tuesday’s winning six numbers.
That jackpot grew by $40 million after Tuesday's draw of 4, 7, 10, 45 and 64, plus the gold Mega Ball 12, didn't produce a jackpot winner.
The person who purchased a $1.6 million winning lottery ticket in Sacramento did not come forward to claim the prize ahead of Thursday's deadline.
The person who bought a winning Powerball ticket from a Sacramento 7-Eleven store has finally come forward.
A Sacramento 7-Eleven beat the 1 in 292 million odds, selling a winning Powerball Jackpot ticket worth more than $316 million. California Lottery says it's the biggest Jackpot prize won in Sacramento in recent times — possibly ever.
One of the two winning tickets for the $630 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a South Sacramento 7-Eleven.
There were no winners in Monday night's Powerball drawing for an estimated $522 million.
There were no winners in the final Powerball drawing of 2021, and the jackpot grew to $483 million, according to the game operator.
The final Powerball drawing of 2021 is Wednesday, with the jackpot up to an estimated $441 million.
A lucky Powerball ticket sold in Auburn may not have won the jackpot, but it will definitely be someone's favorite Christmas present.
Are Californians feeling luckier this year? One indicator might point to yes.
This Thanksgiving weekend, two multimillion-dollar winning tickets were sold in California — one in Southern California and the other in Sacramento
State lottery winners who won big, are growing impatient.
