Powerball Jackpot Hits $550 Million For Wednesday's Drawing
Fantasies of buying 423 castles or 2,143 Ferraris could become reality this week now that the Powerball jackpot has topped half a billion dollars.
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Fantasies of buying 423 castles or 2,143 Ferraris could become reality this week now that the Powerball jackpot has topped half a billion dollars.
No tickets matched Saturday's Powerball drawing.
Lottery officials say two tickets have won the estimated $750 million Powerball jackpot.
No one has won the big Powerball prize, so the estimated jackpot now grows to $750 million — potentially the fourth-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
Such plans can turn into a protracted legal fight, hard feelings and court orders.
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Is this the night someone makes US lottery history?
It's not too late to jump on the lottery train -- there's more than $2 billion up for grabs this week.
The Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $1 billion Friday morning.
The Mega Millions jackpot is getting closer to $1 billion.
Tonight's MEGA Millions jackpot is now a record $667 million.
So you have your lottery ticket, you've checked the numbers a few hundred times, and sure enough, you are now a multi-millionaire.
Nearly a billion dollars in jackpot money is up for grabs between the MEGA Millions and POWERBALL lotteries.
A judge has ruled that a New Hampshire woman who won a Powerball jackpot worth nearly $560 million can keep her identity private.
Did you win? We've got the numbers for the latest Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets.
The likelihood of winning both? Forget about it.
The jackpot jumps to an estimated $550 million for Saturday's drawing. That would make it the nation's 8th largest lottery prize ever.
Lottery players have a chance at winning two giant jackpots that together amount to nearly $800 million.
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You've got two ways to win more than $300 million this week. But the odds of winning either lottery aren't as good as they used to be.
The largest single-ticket Powerball prize in U.S. history was claimed Thursday by a Massachusetts hospital worker who promptly quit her job only hours after learning she had won the $758.7 million prize.
A single winning ticket has been sold for the massive Powerball $758.7 million jackpot in Wednesday night's drawing. The winning ticket was sold in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday night's Powerball lottery game has climbed to $700 million, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $510 million, making it one of the largest in U.S. history.
Lottery officials say the holder of the sole winning Powerball ticket worth $447.8 million can claim the prize as early as Monday morning.
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