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The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

A homeless man in Bloomington, Illinois is ready to spread the wealth.

Everyone (well almost everyone) wishes they were holding one of the winning $500-million Powerball tickets from Wednesday night's drawing. A guy named Nolan Daniels supposedly does, and if you believe everything you read on the Internet, he might give you a million dollars just for sharing his photo. Sound too good to be true? It is. It's just another hoax some troll posted to Facebook, so stop sharing his photoshopped photo!

If you haven't already heard, (or seen lines of foolishly hopefully thinkers buying lottery tickets) Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot is estimated to be half-a-BILLION dollars. That's a lot of scratch.But before you cash in your kid's college savings to go buy Powerball tickets, do you know what your odds of winning are?

Everyone knows that old statistic that you are more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery.  Bill Isles of Kansas certainly does, since it happened to him!

The Mega Millions Lottery drawing is today. The estimated jackpot is $540 million which puts the cash payout to $389 million. After tax? $293 million dollars. Do you know where the proceeds from much of the lottery goes? In our colorful state, portions of the proceeds go to making a more beautiful Colorado...

If you tried to go anywhere near a convenience store yesterday, you probably saw lines of people waiting to get lottery tickets. Why? Because the 4th largest lottery jackpot in history was up for grabs and two people, one from Idaho and one from Washington, purchased tickets with the correct winning numbers.