The first-known winning ticket was sold in Chino Hills, outside of Los Angeles.
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Last night’s winning numbers were 04, 08, 19, 27, 34, and the Powerball was 10.
John and Lisa Robinson will have to split the jackpot three ways with other winners from Florida and California.
The Powerball jackpot has now reset to $40 million.
“I came home, and I wasn’t feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, ‘I’m going to go lay down,”‘ he said. But what about the people who sold the winning tickets?
The store’s owner says he feels blessed and happy for the victor.
Any doubts were erased Friday afternoon when the Tennessee lottery tweeted out confirmation that the Robinsons had come to their headquarters to claim the prize. 7-Eleven did not respond to requests for comment.
Atwal has owned his franchise for 24 years.
But they shouldn’t wait too long: California gives its top winners up to a year to contact lottery officials before the money automatically goes to schools.
– A winning ticket was sold at the Tedeschi Food Shops store at 52 Bedford St.in East Bridgewater. The store will receive a $1,000,000 bonus, lottery officials said. “I really didn’t feel like stopping that night, but I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll stop and get them'”. According to the director, they are unsure if the winning ticket was one of the tickets purchased by Rechnitz or if she bought it herself.
“I’ve never won anything in my life”, she said. In addition to three jackpot winners, more than 26 million other winning tickets will pay out total cash prizes of $273,869,373, Lunsford said.
Lottery officials said on Facebook that more than $20 million has been returned to the state from tickets sales over the past few weeks. “Our goal is to have a lot of people play a little bit”.
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Powerball sales were “exponentially higher” than normal, Grief said. California’s share represents $154 million for its schools, Russ Lopez said – not enough “to get schools out of trouble”.
