July 25, 2013 Remember Gloria MacKenzie? The former Maine resident who won the BIGGEST Powerball jackpot in history (so far) is helping out her home state in a big way!
And it's something we should learn from.
June 5, 2013 It’s been 12 days since the $590 million dollar Powerball jackpot was hit by a single person in Zephyrhills, Florida, but no one has come forward to claim the prize money. The small town of 13,000 is wondering who the winner is. Speculation in the town is a female supermarket employee who didn’t show up for work the day after the drawing, but no one knows for sure.
May 21, 2013 The $590 million Powerball jackpot was hit by only one person that lives in Zephyrhills, Florida. Zephyrhills has a big ties to Maine as it is the community in Florida that has the most people from Maine. In fact, this past
May 17, 2013 The Powerball jackpot is estimated to be $550 million dollars for this Saturday's drawing, with the cash option at an estimated $350 million dollars. This would be the second largest jackpot in Powerball history, the largest was last November, when a $587.5 million jackpot was won.
Over the weekend a $2 million Powerball ticket was sold at the Canaan Superette. The winner matched five numbers and turned the $1 million prize into $2 by playing the Power Play option.
On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Serv
November 29, 2012 America had Powerball fever! A record jackpot of almost 580 million dollars was drawn last night. I awoke this morning to hear that two winning tickets were bought, one in Arizona and the other in Missouri.
I have a big fat loosing Powerball ticket sitting on my desk. Heck, it was fun to dream for a little while about the 'what ifs' of winning $579 million and what great things I could do! I would have been VERY generous with the money if I had won. But every Maine lottery ticket, winner or loser helps Maine’s General Fund. Winning tickets were bought in Arizona and Missouri.