The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.5 billion — the fifth-largest jackpot in the lottery game's history — after no one won the grand prize on Wednesday night. If there's a winner from the next drawing on Saturday night, they can choose ...

Lotteries serve two main purposes. First, they raise money for schools, state budgets and gambling addiction programs. Second, they fuel excitement among players, who dream of the one-in-a-million chance of becoming a lottery winner and putting all their ...

A lucky person who bought a ticket at a Murphy USA gas station in Cabot, Arkansas, northeast of Little Rock, will take home a whopping $1.817 billion Powerball jackpot, which has a cash option of $834.9 million.

The odds of winning this week's Powerball drawing are 1 in 292 million, and there isn't much a player can do to increase those chances, according to one expert. Buying multiple tickets at once does fractionally increase a player's odds, but that strategy ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Numbers were drawn in Saturday's $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot. The Powerball jackpot for Sept. 6 ranked as the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, only behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won in ...

The Powerball jackpot rose to $719 million for the Saturday, Nov. 29, drawing after no one on Wednesday, Nov. 26, took home the top prize. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball in the 11 p.m. ET drawing, the winner can choose a one-time ...

(CBS News) The phrase "Win some, lose some" will be little consolation for the players and fans of whichever team loses in today's Super Bowl. Just ask somebody who's been there. Our Cover Story is reported by Susan Spencer of 48 Hours: In football-crazed ...

The Powerball winning numbers are in for the Monday, Dec. 29 drawing with a jackpot back to $33 million ($15.2 million cash value). The largest winning Powerball jackpot ticket sold in Michigan was worth $842.4 million and sold in January 2024 at Food Castle in Grand Blanc.