The jackpot will be shared by winning ticket holders in California, Tennessee and Florida.
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“We were up all night”, she told the broadcast network.
“She said check these numbers, and I said ‘okay.’ I looked at them I said yeah, they look like they’re the numbers”.
Robinson did say that he had signed the back of the ticket, showing his ownership of it.
The Robinsons, from the small town of Munford, say the first thing they will do is pay off their daughter’s student loans.
Those who unexpectedly come into such a massive sum of money are often at the mercy of conmen and cheats. Smith said. “The thought is not reporters, but everybody you knew in high school and elementary… You know what happens”. “She said, ‘no.’ She didn’t believe me at first”.
Two Powerball tickets sold in North Carolina are worth $2 million, three are worth $100,000 and 14 are worth $50,000, lottery officials say. Local lottery authorities have confirmed their win.
Lisa works in a Memphis dermatologist’s office. The couple is in their middle 50s, neighbors said.
Drivers pass a billboard where the word “billion” has replaced “million” to show the correct amount of the jackpot for Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
John & Lisa Robinson won the Powerball in Tennessee. And a Tennessee couple claims they have one of them.
According to John Robinson, he called his wife while driving home and he was reminded by her to stop and buy some tickets at Naifeh’s Food Market, one of three lottery retailers in their hometown of 6,000 residents about 30 miles northeast of Memphis.
At home, he laid out the four tickets, one representing each family member, and took a nap. When he got home, he gave the tickets to his wife and went to lie down. The numbers were computer-generated, he said. “I went running down the hall, yelling, ‘John, John, you gotta check these numbers'”. “They want to let the public know they’re the winners”.
He said they have no plans to move from their small, one-story house, or splurge on big purchases.
There were also winners in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Chino Hills and at a supermarket in affluent Melbourne Beach, on Florida’s Space Coast.
The jackpot winners overcame odds of one in 292 million.
The prize is roughly $533 million if they choose the lump-sum payment, which is $327.8 million after taxes.
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