Powerball jackpot surges to $500M in hours before drawing

Maybe it was the chilly weather Wednesday, but the dreams many Toledoans tied to a potential big Powerball win were simple: Head south. With an estimated jackpot of $500 million by the evening, the astronomically long odds seemed worth the reason to  A drawing is set for 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday locally on WCCT-TV, … Read more

Powerball jackpot surges to $500M in hours before drawing

Britain is also having a record setting lottery drawing Wednesday night, and while it is puny compared to the Powerball drawing in the U.S., it has distinct advantages — the odds and taxes. The National Lottery's record "Lotto" jackpot is £50.4 The production is being financed by one of the newest and more unexpected patrons … Read more

What Could You Do With $400M? Powerball Mania at Fever Pitch

trading stocks earlier today after shares plunged 7%. Why the sudden drop? Weak manufacturing data spooked investors. Power play. If you haven't bought a lottery ticket lately, now's as good a time as anyway: the Powerball jackpot is now $400 million. The frequent guest of Hotel Graybar is out of the pokey once again after … Read more

Powerball lottery jackpot surges to roughly $400M

(WDRB) — The next Powerball winner will have a chance to claim one of the game's 10 biggest prizes. Nobody won the top prize in the mutli-state lottery on Saturday, so the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is growing to about $400 million. However, the The frequent guest of Hotel Graybar is out of the pokey … Read more

Powerball jackpot jumps to $400M after no winner emerges

BOLIVIA, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina Powerball winner's boyfriend is out of jail again after posting a $12 million bond. Thirty-. one-year-old Lamarr McDow was bailed out Friday after someone paid a bail bonding company to post his bond. Brunswick County. Employee Andrew Bahri, left, 19, of Walled Lake, sells a Powerball lottery ticket … Read more

Powerball jackpot climbs to $400 million

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County — The question all day Saturday at Anthracite Newsstand in downtown Wilkes-Barre wasn't if lottery players wanted to play Powerball but how many tickets they wanted. With a jackpot well over $300 million, even people who  With a $334 million Powerball jackpot on the line, we'll just get down to business. Here … Read more

Michigan woman said to be $310.5M Powerball winner

The Powerball jackpot starts at $40 million and continues to grow by at least $10 million each drawing until it is won. Changes to the Powerball game are coming on October 7, 2015. Click here for more information. Watch the Drawings. View the drawings for Florida Lotto, Powerball, Lucky Money, Fantasy 5, Cash 3 and … Read more

What You Should Do If You've Won the Powerball Jackpot

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 31.85. The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto The app lets users play a variety of lottery games, including … Read more

Changes coming to Powerball beginning Sunday

If you didn't buy your Powerball tickets at a Shell gas station in Three Rivers, Michigan, we've got some bad news. You didn't win the $310.5 million prize. That's because that's where the single winning ticket was sold at about  The Classic Lotto jackpot continues its slow climb, reaching $11.9 million after no tickets matched … Read more