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Saturday's Powerball Jackpot is Up To $600,000,000

Greg Michaels — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:17:59 +0000

So, what goes into choosing your numbers for Powerball? Do you use birthdays and special dates? Do you use a pattern on the card when you fill it out? Do you use the same numbers week after week? Do you just let the machine pick your numbers? I just bought two, and I used sports [...]

What Would You Do with $2 Million Dollars? Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Canaan

Mac Dickson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:10:48 +0000

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.The lucky numbers were 2,5,31,39,41 with a Powerball of 29. The Maine State Lottery talked with store owner Tom Ward. We don’t know [...]

Photo of Winning Lotto Ticket That Went Viral Is A Fake

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:55:16 +0000

Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week’s record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had. On Thursday, Daniels posted a photo of himself holding a ticket with what looked to be the winning numbers on his Facebook page. [...]

The Other Winner of That Big Powerball Prize? The I.R.S. — Dollars and Sense

Chris Chaberski — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:27:52 +0000

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

You Didn't Win Powerball, but You Did Help Maine's Bank Account

Renee Nelson — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:24:42 +0000

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.

What Would You Do With A Half Billion Dollars?

Greg Michaels — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:32:52 +0000

What would you do with $500 million dollars? I just went to fill up the Moose Caboose at the Irving on Western Avenue in Augusta. The sign reads "Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot is $500,000,000" (annuitized). As a game show host would say, “a half billion dollars.”

What Would You Do With 143 Million Dollars?

Greg Michaels — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:15:12 +0000

It’s the day after the election, now what? I wanted to write on something else, so here we go. Wednesday and Saturday is when they have the ‘Megabucks’ and ‘Powerball’ drawings. The other big two lotteries here in Maine are ‘Hot Lotto’ and ‘Mega Millions.’ Tonight’s ‘Powerball’ jackpot is at an estimated 143 Million dollars. [...]