With a Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night’s drawing at an estimated $1.5 billion, many flocked to pick up a ticket in hopes of…
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Some took selfies with the store clerk on duty, who became an instant celebrity and may well have been the man who sold the ticket after being on duty for much of the run-up to Wednesday night’s drawing.
A Powerball ticket purchased at Chaney’s Service Station in Chester, WV has made one person $1 million richer, according to West Virginia Lottery officials.
A player also won $30,000 in the Multi-State Lottery Hot Lotto game Wednesday.
Office workers dashed out between meetings to buy tickets, fantasizing about what they would do with the winnings, and commuters in NY joked about scooping the jackpot to save them from the deep freeze of winter.
“I’m hearing anecdotally and through news outlets, millions of people who have never played Powerball before are indeed purchasing a ticket”.
Leading into Wednesday, there had been 19 consecutive Powerball drawings with no victor.
After weeks of waiting, the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot has been won by three lucky winners across three USA states. They would still owe federal taxes, topping out at 39.6 percent.
The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were 4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and the Powerball number was 10. That 7-Eleven store has been in the news because of the impromptu celebration that broke out at the store once it was announced they’d sold a winning Powerball ticket. Many chanted, “Chino Hills!” Balbir didn’t know his store had sold the winning ticket until he saw it on TV.
The victor has 180 days to come forward in Tennessee.
Powerball tickets are sold in 44 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
“I’ll be sharing it with my employees and the needy people, but I’m not going to get a million”, Atwal said Thursday. California’s share represents $154 million for its schools, Russ Lopez said – not enough “to get schools out of trouble”.
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Last year, as part of the higher education funding, the University of Florida received over $47 million from lottery funds. Taxin reported from Chino Hills and Schneider from Melbourne Beach.
