As the Powerball jackpot continues to grow, so do your hopes of walking into your boss’s office slapping down your two weeks notice and exclaiming “I quit this job!”
PHOENIX (AP) — A married couple from Gilbert chose to permanently remain anonymous in claiming the jackpot from a $473 million winning ticket for the Powerball drawing on April 27, Arizona Lottery officials said.
In April, the price of aMega Millions ticket is set to risefrom $2 to $5. It will also become — ever so slightly — easier to win. The odds of winning, according to a lottery official, will go from 1 in 302.6 million to around those for winning at Powerball, which are 1 in...
5. $590.5 million (Powerball) In May 2013,Gloria Mackenziein Florida won a jackpot worth about $590 million, at the time making history as the biggest jackpot to be won by only one person. She chose to receive the one-time payment of about $370 million before taxes. "It couldn't ha...
Iowa Lottery officials have confirmed that Lerynne West of Dexter, Iowa, is one of two winners of a nearly $700 million Powerball prize. The 51-year-old grandmother of six will share the $687.8 million jackpot drawn on October 27th with a winner from N
tournament. The exact odds of correctly predicting the outcome of all the match-upsdepend on who you ask:Forbes places it at 1 in 9.2 quintillion, while FiveThirtyEight pegged the 2015 odds at 1 in 1.6 billion. Either way, Buffett won't have to pay a grand prize winner for the ...
which has 33 member states. Governors and lawmakers of those states say they want to help average people. Yet they sponsor lottos that pick the pockets of average people. In 2010, Americans spent $58 billion on Powerball games run by state governments. Did the states extend that much ...
Who Got 3 Winning Tickets to $1.6 Billion Powerball Jackpot?MUNFORD, Tenn. - Mystery winners in Tennessee, Florida andCalifornia should get their affairs in...Adrian SainzAndrew Dalton
The lateAndrew Whittaker Jr., of West Virginia, dealt with lawsuits and personal issues after he claimed a record $315 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas night in 2002. At the time, it was the largest U.S. lottery jackpot won by a single ticket. People harassed him with so many req...
creates a ton of problems for lottery winners,” Alexa von Tobel, the founder and CEO of financial planning site LearnVest.com, told ABC News back in 2016 when the Powerball jackpot reached $1.58 billion. “We've seen everything from robberies to even murders of people who have won ...