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Iowa woman buys winning $2 million Powerball lottery ticket right before sales cutoffNews Story
A race against the clock from start to finish By Kate Northrop An Iowa woman bought a Powerball lottery ticket just in the nick of time, which ended up winning her a $2 million prize. To say Megan Balmer's experience with winning the lottery was exciting is an understatement from the moment she bought her ticket to stepping into Iowa Lottery headquarters to claim a $2 million Powerball prize, this win had her running around on fumes. Balmer's win began when she and her boyfriend,
Jul 14, 2023, 11:15 am - Lottery News

VIDEO: May's Weekly Roundup in lottery newsNews Story
Cashier steals a $3 million winning lottery ticket from customer will this end well? By Kate Northrop Today, Lottery Post published a new installment of the Weekly Roundup series featuring some of the most prominent lottery stories in the month of May. This month has seen a wide variety of notable news, from feel-good winners' stories to instances where winning the lottery might come with a negative consequence. One instance saw an Australian man win $15 million in the lottery an
May 26, 2023, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Massachusetts store clerk indicted after stealing lottery ticket worth $3 million from customerNews Story
Cashier switched her story during investigation, something didn't add up By Kate Northrop A liquor store clerk and her coworker have been indicted on charges that they stole a winning Massachusetts Lottery ticket worth $3 million and attempted to cash it in. Following a four-month investigation, a Plymouth County grand jury indicted Carly Nunes, 23, of Lakeville, on multiple criminal charges for stealing and attempting to claim a winning lottery ticket worth $3 million. Massachus
May 16, 2023, 6:32 am - Lottery News

Virginia man wins $300,000 with two Powerball lottery tickets in one drawingNews Story
By Kate Northrop A Virginia man hedged his bets in one Powerball drawing and emerged $300,000 richer after two of his tickets won a third-tier prize. A lucky lottery winner was rewarded with a highly successful prize payout when two of his lottery tickets won a total of $300,000 in one Powerball drawing. Ben Baker of Covington bought ten lottery tickets for the Powerball drawing on March 4. Two of those tickets matched four numbers and the Powerball number to win the game's $50,000 t
Mar 22, 2023, 7:22 pm - Lottery News

Two record prizes claimed by Mississippi lottery players in one dayNews Story
A big day for the Mississippi Lottery record books By Kate Northrop Two Mississippi Lottery players scooped up two remarkable prizes in one day, setting a new record for the state's largest prizes won in two particular lottery games. One Mega Millions prize of $4 million and a nearly-$1 million Match 5 prize were claimed on Wednesday in Mississippi. The two prize claims set the record for the largest prizes won in both games in the state of Mississippi since the state started sel
Feb 12, 2023, 7:29 am - Lottery News

Powerball ticket price to increase to $3 in IdahoNews Story
Every Powerball ticket sold in state will include Power Play option; begins in August By Kate Northrop The Idaho Lottery announced on Wednesday that it will be raising the Powerball ticket price to $3 per play beginning this August, by mandating that every ticket sold will include the Power Play multiplier option. Next month, Powerball fans in Idaho will have to shell out more cash to play the multi-state Powerball game, but there is a catch. Powerball is the most popular lottery g
Jul 26, 2021, 10:18 am - Lottery News

The Power Play multiplier returns to PowerballNews Story
By Todd Northrop Starting with the Wednesday, Jan. 22, Powerball draw, players of the popular multi-state lottery game will have the chance to multiply non-jackpot winning prizes up to five times with the return of the random Powerball Power Play multiplier. Two years ago Powerball's Power Play feature was changed from a random multiplier to a set of fixed prize increases for winners of non-jackpot prizes who purchased the Power Play option for an extra $1 per play. (See Powerball multi
Jan 19, 2014, 11:14 am - Lottery News

D.C. lottery ticket wins $144M Powerball jackpotNews Story
One lottery ticket sold in Washington, D.C. matched all 6 numbers in the Wednesday evening Powerball drawing, and is now worth $144 million to the lucky ticket-holder. The holder of the winning ticket will now have to decide whether to take the 29-year, 30-installment annuity, or the one time cash lump sum amount of $79,681,116. There were a total of 903,448 additional winning tickets in America's Game Wednesday evening. Those tickets won prizes totaling $8,450,412. The numbers drawn We
Apr 9, 2009, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Man claims $16M Florida Lotto prizeNews Story
Played new Lotto feature to up his winnings by $10 million First winner of Lotto Plus feature A Bradenton, Florida, man Monday stepped forward to claim his winnings for a $16 million lottery ticket. Charles E. Hill, 56, took the one-time, lump-sum payment of $9,072,011 on the ticket he purchased May 10 at Bud's Mini Mart, 1000 Carlton Arms Blvd., according to a Florida Lottery press release. Hill purchased a $2 ticket that upped his winnings by $10 million over the $6 million ja
May 21, 2008, 7:40 am - Lottery News

Powerball 10x promotion starts WednesdayNews Story
Starting Wednesday, April 2, 2008, all Powerball states will be offering Powerball players the chance to multiply non-jackpot prizes by 10. During April, the game's Power Play feature, which multiplies non-jackpot prizes between two and five times, depending on the Power Play number drawn, will include a multiplier of 10. If 10 were drawn as that evening's multiplier, a player holding a $200,000 prize-winning ticket for that specific drawing would win $2 million if the wager includes Powe
Mar 31, 2008, 1:58 pm - Lottery News