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A Powerball ticket sold in California won $28,258, but just missed the $48 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched four of five winning numbers and the Powerball in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 25, the California Lottery said.

Four Powerball tickets sold in California won $22,700 each, but just missed the $329 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched four of five winning numbers and the Powerball in ...

The lottery jackpot was an estimated $56 million with a cash option of $24.9 million for Monday night's drawing, according to the Powerball website. The jackpot was last won on Jan. 18 when a Oregon lottery player won $329 million Powerball jackpot.

A pair of lottery Scratchers players in the Bay Area recently came away with $1 million jackpot-winning tickets, according to the California Lottery.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the "Powerball" game were: (two, forty, forty-seven, fifty-three, fifty-five, Powerball: twenty, Power Play: two)

The Mega Millions jackpot has been won in Arizona. One ticket matched all six balls on Jan. 17's drawing to win the $112 million ($49.95 million cash option), according to the Mega Millions website. The winning ticket was sold at the Winners Corner on West Broadway Road in Tempe, Ariz., according to the Arizona Lottery.

Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man made a stop to put gas in his car and ended up winning a $200,000 lottery prize. Demarte Harris of Salisbury told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he stopped at Kangaroo Express on Statesville Road in Salisbury and bought a $200,000 Money Rush scratch-off ticket while filling up his tank.

A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine

Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general that is attempting to exclude people in the U.S.