DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It’s all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it became the newest in the nation to join the madness over Powerball, which saw its jackpot soar Thursday to $550 million. California has sold $83 million worth of Powerball tickets since it started selling them in […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot jumped to $550 million on Thursday — the third largest lottery in history — as dreamers in all but the seven states where the game isn’t played snatched up tickets for the minuscule chance at a life on easy street. Thursday’s announcement by the Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery […]
Melvyn Wilson of Virginia might be the luckiest man in the world. Not only has the 72-year-old recently won $500,000 off of a scratch-off game, prior to that in 2005 he won $1 million, in a separate time in 2005 he won another $500,000 and in 2004 he won $25,000! So far, Wilson has won […]
Tom and the crew open today’s show talking about the morning’s most wacky and sick stories including a story about a prostitution ring ran out of a senior citizens home, a sexually assaulted peacock and more on the TJMS.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot is climbing again, and fast. In just a few short weeks, the jackpot has ballooned to an estimated $360 million, making it the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot ever. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says the “cross-selling” of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets, […]
We all run out to get our tickets when the lottery jackpots get high. We figure we’ll take a chance and maybe our couple dollars will turn into something we always dreamed of; even if it’s only the consolation prize of a few thousand or a couple dollars for getting some of the numbers. Well […]
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) – The New Jersey man who won the $338 million Powerball jackpot owes about $29,000 in child support. Forty-4-year-old Pedro Quezada on Tuesday claimed a lump-sum payment worth $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. A spokesman for Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik says the sheriff’s office’s warrant squad is attempting […]
PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Pedro Quezada‘s neighbors see a lot of themselves in the winner of the $338 million Powerball jackpot: hardworking, a family man, an immigrant, and someone who has known hard times. That’s why they’re so thrilled that one of their own has finally struck it rich. Quezada, 44, entered Eagle Liquors store, […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas couple who set out for a day of fishing came home with quite the fish story: Two winning lottery tickets, including a $1 million prize. The Arkansas Lottery Commission says Stephen and Terri Weaver were on a fishing trip when they stopped to buy the first ticket at […]
CHICAGO (AP) — With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes. Nearly six months later, authorities have a mystery on their hands after medical examiners, responding […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa couple who won a $202 million Powerball jackpot in September is donating $3 million to their son’s high school for a new football stadium — but the gift comes with a catch. The stadium visitor’s locker room must be painted pink. The Bondurant-Farrar school district accepted the $3 […]
