The 84-year-old woman who is now the biggest single lottery winner in U.S. history says she bought her ticket after another customer let her move ahead in the line at a supermarket in her home town of Zephyrhills.Full story
You now have more chances to win big with a new game launched by the state lottery. Full story
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the state can move ahead with its plan to turn over sales and marketing of the New Jersey Lottery to a private vendor, but the panel still plans more hearings on the matter. Full story
Philip Galanes, the Social Qs advice columnist for the New York Times talks about whether Mindy Crandell’s coworkers should be upset about letting the woman who won the powerball cut in front of her.
Mindy Crandell, the Florida woman who says she let the $590 million Powerball winner cut in front of her is taking the incident in stride, even as many say she deserves a piece of the jackpot. And one of Crandell’s coworkers says she was buying tickets for an office pool.
Seema Mody discusses who the real winner is in the $600 million Powerball lottery.
When the Cerezo family cleaned the kitchen earlier this month, they never imagined that one of the lottery tickets they had tossed into the cookie jar bought by their daughter, who recently passed away at 14, would make them several million dollars richer. NBC’s John Yang reports.
With no Powerball winner drawn last night, the jackpot is now the third largest in history. The next drawing will be held on Saturday. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reports.
Powerball winner Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, left, leaves the lottery office escorted by her son, Scott Mackenzie, after claiming a single lump-sum payment of about $370.9 million before taxes on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in Tallahassee, Fla. Officials say she is the largest sole lottery winner in U.S.
REFILE - ADDING POWERBALL REFERENCE Gloria C. Mackenzie, an 84-year-old woman from Zephyrhills, Florida
Gloria C. Mackenzie, an 84-year-old woman from Zephyrhills, Florida
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