No one won the jackpot, but there were three lucky million-dollar-winning tickets, one each from Illinois, Colorado and California. The Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, July 8: 7-23-24-32-43 and Powerball was 18. The cash option for Saturday's Powerball jackpot was $310.6 million. The Saturday, July 8 drawing, a $615 million jackpot, rocketed into the 10 spot in all-time Powerball jackpots with a late surge in the estimated grand prize.
And it will continue to climb the charts. The Powerball jackpot is now a Top 10 all-time grand prize. Reporter Aldo Toledo and the Southern California News Group contributed to this report.Watch Video: Odds of winning the Powerball and Mega Millions are NOT in your favor The other two were sold in Beaumont and Gardena, both in Southern California. The 5-number tickets missed only the Powerball number. Three additional tickets each worth $1,149,661 were sold in California, including one in San Francisco, according to the lottery. “This is a very poor neighborhood,” he said. “No one else deserves this more than this man who’s worked hard all his life,” said one of the station’s workers who was on hand with Chahayed for the impromptu celebration.Īsked if they knew who had the ticket, the workers would only say it was a regular and someone from the neighborhood.Ĭhahayed, in an interview with the Southern California News Group, said he hoped the winner was a local. A handmade letter “B” for Billionaire, is glued on top of the original “M” on a signed reading: “Millionaire Made Here,” posted outside Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles Tuesday, Nov. Station owner Joe Chahayed told a crowd of reporters and well-wishers clustered in front of his service station that state lottery officials called him the night before but only said some news would be coming in the morning.Īsked what he’d do with the $1 million, he said he’d share it with family, including his 11 grandchildren. The California Lottery in a tweet said “it is not due to any delays at the California Lottery.” The association refused to identify the state whose problems were holding up the drawing, saying “it’s against our policy to name the lottery that is experiencing the delay,” according to the Associated Press.
Once Powerball receives the outstanding submission, the drawing can proceed.” The Multi-State Lottery Association said in a statement that the long delay occurred because “Powerball requires all 48 participating (state) lotteries to submit their sales and play data prior to the winning numbers being selected. The news came as a turbulent finale to a Powerball saga that began the night before Monday night’s drawing was postponed to Tuesday morning after technical difficulties. Business owner Joe Chahayed is congratulated by regular customer, Yolanda Chavez, as he holds a check outside Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles Tuesday, Nov. The winning numbers, according to the lottery, were 10-33-41-47-56, with a Power number of 10. The holder of the winning ticket will be the first lottery-made billionaire in California’s history. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Mobil station in Altadena, an unincorporated area about 14 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, the lottery said Tuesday morning. A record-smashing $2.04 billion Powerball-winning ticket was sold in California, lottery officials said Tuesday, bringing to an end a brief and befuddling odyssey that “began” when the winning numbers weren’t announced on their normal schedule Monday night.
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