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$2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro buys up lots destroyed by L.A. firesNews Story
World's biggest lottery winner focuses on preserving neighborhood as he knew it By Kate Northrop $2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro's Malibu mansion was one of the many homes flattened in the Palisades fire disaster earlier this year. Now, he's buying up several plots of land to help rebuild the area he grew up in. Several investors have been reportedly picking through the ruins to seize and repurpose plots of land that were destroyed in the devastating L.A. fires, and
Oct 15, 2025, 8:13 am - Lottery News

Texas trust claims second half $1.8 billion Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Winner is from a family looking to serve their community while enjoying privacy By Kate Northrop A Texas trust has stepped forward to claim the second half of the historic $1.787 billion Powerball lottery jackpot, just a couple weeks after the Missouri winner had claimed their share. On Monday, the Texas Lottery announced that a trust has claimed their share of the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot and plans on using their lottery winnings to serve their community. The winner has fi
Oct 14, 2025, 9:08 am - Lottery News

$1.3 million Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot unclaimed for almost a yearNews Story
Winning ticket worth over a million is expiring soon By Kate Northrop New Jersey lottery players should rummage through their drawers and dig in their center consoles for a missing Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth $1.3 million. Pretty soon, it'll be no more. Come Thanksgiving, all hopes for expressing gratitude for a $1.3 million Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot will go out the window. The New Jersey Lottery is alerting players to a $1,300,245 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot that was hit nearly 11
Oct 5, 2025, 7:45 am - Lottery News

Missouri lottery winner of $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot comes forward: "I'm a homebody"News Story
The sleepless nights were the best kind of problem to have By Kate Northrop The Missouri lottery winner splitting the historic $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot has come forward to claim his share of the prize just over two weeks after the drawing took place. The Missouri winner of the $1.787 billion Powerball lottery jackpot says he's just a homebody who enjoys relaxing at home, and now, the absurd amount of newfound wealth is going to help him do just that. On Monday, the Missou
Sep 24, 2025, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Montana Lottery aims to prohibit bulk purchases after group takes gamble on $1.6 million jackpotNews Story
Smaller lottery unexpectedly targeted by purchasing group prompts security discussions Plans partially foiled by another winner By Kate Northrop The Montana Lottery is the latest state to propose rules that would prohibit bulk ticket purchases after an unknown entity bought hundreds of thousands of tickets to scoop a $1.6 million Montana Cash jackpot in May. One by one, state lotteries across the nation have been taking proactive steps to curb the possibility of organized groups
Sep 19, 2025, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

84-year-old Michigan man will share $481,582 Fantasy 5 lottery jackpot with loved onesNews Story
Long-awaited jackpot win rewards player's persistence By Kate Northrop An 84-year-old Michigan lottery player wants to make use of his $481,582 Fantasy 5 jackpot by sharing the riches with his family. After vying for the Michigan Lottery's Fantasy 5 jackpot for a long time, an 84-year-old player finally hit his long-awaited stroke of luck with a $481,582 prize. The Macomb County resident, who chose to remain anonymous in the Lottery's announcement, entered the Aug. 16 Fantasy 5 d
Sep 11, 2025, 7:35 am - Lottery News

$1.8 billion Powerball jackpot to be split by two tickets sold in Missouri and TexasNews Story
Lump-sum cash option worth $820.6 million By Todd Northrop In a historic run of drawings that produced the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history, two Powerball tickets sold in Missouri and Texas will split a grand prize worth nearly $2 billion. Last night, after 41 consecutive drawings without a winner, the multi-state Powerball lottery game finally produced a winner on the 42nd try, resulting in two tickets sharing a jackpot worth $1.7874 billion in 30 payments over 29 ye
Sep 7, 2025, 7:19 am - Lottery News

$1.8 BILLION: Powerball jackpot now second-largest ever as ticket sales surge across the USANews Story
Massive sales triggers jackpot increase to #2 all-time 4th-largest cash value in history By Todd Northrop Due to a ticket-buying frenzy for Saturday's Powerball drawing, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official Powerball lottery jackpot estimate to $1.8 billion, making it the second-largest lottery jackpot in world history. The all-important lump-sum cash value of the jackpot has been raised to $826.4 million, which is the fourth-largest lottery cash val
Sep 5, 2025, 11:21 am - Lottery News

$1.7 BILLION: Powerball jackpot juggernaut keeps rollingNews Story
3rd-largest lottery jackpot in world history By Todd Northrop Last night, the multi-state Powerball lottery game produced no top winner for the 41st consecutive drawing, prompting lottery officials to raise the game's jackpot to an astonishing $1.7 billion. A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $770.3 million three-quarters of a billion dollars in cash! It's the stuff that a lottery player's dreams are made of holding a lottery ticket for an upcoming Power
Sep 4, 2025, 7:09 am - Lottery News

$1.3 BILLION: Powerball jackpot soars to 5th-largest in game historyNews Story
Powerball ticket-buying frenzy this week as game seeks to create billionaire By Todd Northrop This week lottery players across the United States will be pulling out all the stops to try and win Powerball, featuring one of the largest lottery jackpots in history, worth an estimated $1.3 billion. The Powerball jackpot has been building for 40 consecutive drawings since the last winner on May 31 , when one ticket from California won a $204.5 million jackpot. The ticket was sold at the 7
Sep 2, 2025, 6:51 am - Lottery News