SACRAMENTO, CA, (AP) – A California couple has claimed a $528.8 million share of a record Powerball jackpot from January and pledged to give much of it to charity. Flanked by security, Marvin and Mae Acosta went to a state lottery office in Van Nuys on Friday to claim their winnings from the record $1.6 billion Powerball drawing, lottery officials…
Philip Sears/Reuters There are 1.5 billion reasons to be on the ball. With the Powerball jackpot jumping again this morning to $1.5 billion, office pools are not the only places taking tonight’s big drawing seriously. The Florida lottery studio in Tallahassee where the record-breaking drawing will take place has a battery of tests and security checks that it will perform…
ABC (ABC News) — Even Hillary Clinton is getting in on the Powerball madness. The Democratic presidential candidate said she purchased a ticket for tonight’s record-breaking $1.5 billion Powerball lottery. “I did,” Clinton said today during an interview on “Good Morning America.” Hillary Clinton Defends Chelsea Clinton’s Attacks Against Bernie Sanders Powerball Jackpot Increases to $1.5 Billion Clinton made clear, though,…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The next Powerball winner will have a chance to claim one of the game’s 10 biggest prizes this week when the jackpot grows to roughly $400 million. Lottery officials say no one claimed Saturday’s $334 million prize, although someone from Pennsylvania won $2 million and three players from California, Connecticut and South Carolina won $1…
