2 weeks ago The Powerball jackpot is on a growing spurt again. Usually 3 or 4 times a year Powerball gets crazy! Where can you watch the Powerball Drawing on T.V. in Billings?
Finally out the door from work and now off to find the winning Powerball tickets for this Saturday night’s drawing.
November 26, 2012 Let the Powerball frenzy begin! Nobody won the $325 million jackpot over the holiday weekend bringing Wednesday's jackpot to a new record high of $425 million! It's sure to go higher as lottery players snatch up their tickets and I would bet it will be closer to $500 million by the time the numbers are drawn Wednesday night! That's a lot of cash! So, it begs the question....What would you do if you won?
Getting to take home a giant check worth millions in lottery winnings might sound like a dream come true, but it can also be a nightmare. Now someone out there has won at least a share of $656 million and we don’t know who will get the dough. Perhaps there’s a good reason for that.
March 30, 2012 Even though the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot today (March 30) is 1 in 176 million, I'm still playing. I stopped by J&J's Petro Mart after lunch today and purchased the winning ticket! On the K-Bear Morning Show, Jon and I were dreaming big! As of noon today the jackpot was at $640 million!
March 29, 2012 Get your Mega Millions lottery ticket before Friday! The jackpot is up to a new record high!
Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets.
Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was nearly $85,000 richer.
We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.
Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.
January 3, 2012
On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.
But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.
Tyrone Curry doesn't have to wake up at 4 a.m. and mop the floors at Evergreen High School in Seattle.
Not after the custodian won the Washington State lottery to the tune of $3.41 million five years ago.
