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The Powerball jackpot swelled to an estimated $1.55 billion for Monday night’s drawing after weeks with no grand prize winner. The new mammoth prize up for grabs Monday ranks as the third largest Powerball jackpot and fourth largest among US lottery jackpots, according to Powerball’s website. If a lucky player matches all six numbers to win the jackpot, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $1.55 billion or a lump sum payment estimated at $679.8 million – both before taxes, Powerball said. The grand prize grew Saturday after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn,...

A Powerball player in California won the massive $1.08 billion jackpot, the lottery game’s third-largest prize Wednesday night. The winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24, and the red Powerball 24. The winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market convenience store in downtown Los Angeles, according to the California lottery. The Post has reached out to the store for comment. The newest billionaire will be able to choose from the $1.08 billion payday or a lump sum payment estimated at $558.1 million.

A couple in England had the surprise of a lifetime when they discovered a stash of rare coins underneath the kitchen floorboards during a renovation project. The haul of rare coins were recently sold at auction for $852,380 against a provisional sale estimate of $231,390. According to The Yorkshire Post, the coins have been linked to a Hull merchant family, the Maisters. The coins date from 1610 until 1727, from the reigns of King James I to King George I. The period covers the time of the marriage of Sarah Maister to Joseph Fernley. According to The Sun, Fernley died...

Powerball has yet to find its first jackpot winner of 2022, making the next drawing worth $522 million. Jackpot hopefuls fell short of the $500 million prize for the 37th consecutive drawing on Saturday.

A single ticket sold in California won a massive Powerball prize of nearly $700 million — the seventh-largest in US lottery history. “California, we have a winner!” the California Lottery tweeted early Tuesday. “Congratulations to our lucky player from Morro Bay who matched 6/6 numbers and won the $699.8 Million #Powerball jackpot,” the message continued of Monday night’s draw. The winning numbers were white balls 12, 22, 54, 66, and 69. The Powerball number was 15.

Roundup does cause cancer, a jury has declared in an unprecedented trial into the health dangers of Monsanto's weedkiller. After three days of deliberations, jurors on Friday sided with terminally-ill groundsman Dewayne Johnson, 46, who has just weeks to live, awarding him $250 million in punitive damages, plus nearly $40m in compensatory damages, bringing the total to $289m.

The $451 million mystery is over. A 20-year-old Florida man claimed the fourth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions lottery history, lotto officials confirmed. Shane Missler, of Port Richey, was the lone winner of the Jan. 5 jackpot. He elected to take a lump sum payout of $281.2 million, officials said. Missler plans on pursuing a "variety of passions," according to the Florida lottery, as well as helping others. “I’m only 20, but I hope to use it to pursue a variety of passions, help my family and do some good for humanity,” he said, according to lottery officials. The win didn't...

According to Anderson police, the homeowner returned home from work and found a package on his porch had been opened. After walking in, the man saw a sandwich with a bite taken out of it on the kitchen counter. He later noticed women’s clothing scattered on the floor of the bathroom and signs that someone had taken a shower. The man then made his way to his bedroom and found Watkins in his bed, police said. He woke her up and called the police.

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The estimated jackpot for the next draw of the US Powerball Lottery has reached $500m (£342m). No one has won the lottery's top prize since 4 November, meaning someone could lay claim to the sixth largest jackpot in North America on Wednesday night. Soaring ticket sales have boosted the jackpot, which could climb even higher if the winning numbers remain elusive.

Veronica Castillo is still pretty upset. She hit the jackpot at a Lucky Eagle Casino slot machine and won $8 million. Except the casino said it was a machine malfunction and gave her $80. The mortgage loan officer took her mother to the casino in Rochester, Washington last weekend. She put $100 in a machine and hit the jackpot — she thought. "I was very excited, happy," she told KOIN 6 News. "Then I couldn't believe it." The casino staff came over and told her the machine malfunctioned. "They shut off the machine, took it away, printed out a ticket...

George Soros, the 83-year-old billionaire investor, philanthropist and active supporter of liberal political causes, is set to marry health care and education consultant Tamiko Bolton (42) on Saturday at his estate near New York City.

(Reuters) - An internal NBC News probe has determined a "seasoned" producer was to blame for a misleading clip of a 911 call that the network broadcast during its coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to two sources at the network. NBC News brass interviewed more than half a dozen staffers during its investigation of the misleadingly edited 911 call placed by George Zimmerman just before he shot the unarmed Florida teenager, said the sources, one of whom is an executive at the network. The clip aired on the network's flagship "Today" morning show last week. The edit made...

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — The family of an illegal immigrant fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in 2007 has reached an $850,000 settlement in a civil case against the federal government and the agent.

A Swiss dad celebrating the birth of his son with a trip to an Austrian casino won 43 million Euros - but then was told the cash would not be paid because it had been a "software error". Behar Merlaku, 38, won the jackpot in the Bregenz Casino operated by Casinos Austria in March but after he was told there had been a mistake he kept trying to get the prize money for four months and is now going to take the case to court. He told Austrian newspaper Heute: "When I won I was ecstatic and of course I...

It’s no wonder that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has recently been the focus of speculation about whether he might run for president in 2012. Texas has been on an economic roll since 2001, creating far more new jobs than any other state in the nation even as its population increased to 25 million. Love him or hate him, Perry is in his fourth term in Austin and thus deserves a big chunk of the credit for many of the good things happening in the Lone Star State. Texas also has implemented some of the nation’s most significant state-level reforms aimed...

Would you care for some whipped cream and sprinkles on your sundae? The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”The special operations forces grabbed personal computers, thumb drives and electronic equipment during the lightning raid that killed bin Laden, officials told POLITICO…“Hundreds of people are going through it now,” an official said, adding that intelligence operatives back in Washington are very excited to find out what they have.“It’s going to be great even if...

<p>A Gainesville woman had a profitable trip to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino -- although she missed her ride home.</p>

MARSHALL, Mo.,- A Missouri convenience store cashier is the United States' newest mega-millionaire, claiming a $258.5 million lottery jackpot Thursday. Christopher Shaw, 29, of Marshall said he rarely buys lottery tickets and wasn't feeling particularly lucky when he plunked down a few bucks after finishing his shift Wednesday night. "I thought somebody is going to win; there are too many people buying tickets," Shaw said. It turned out "somebody" was him. His numbers -- 11, 34, 41, 49, 55 and a Powerball of 20 -- made him the winner. The Powerball jackpot is the biggest in the 24-year history of...

ROME/VIENNA: When Pat Bond told her lover Henry Willenborg, a Franciscan priest, she was pregnant, he urged her to have an abortion. Bond, who was 28, had a miscarriage, then became pregnant again. This time Willenborg's superiors urged her to give up the child for adoption. Bond kept the child but agreed to a vow of silence. In a signed contract with the Catholic Church, she undertook to keep the priest's identity secret in exchange for financial support for her son, Nathan. In America, Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy and Austria, women made pregnant by priests have signed such pledges...