3 Winning Tickets Sold in $564 Million Powerball Jackpot
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) -- Tickets in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas have matched all six numbers to split the $564 million Powerball jackpot.
The winning numbers were: 11, 13, 25, 39, 54 and the Powerball is 19.
It's the third largest prize in the history of the game and the fifth largest lottery jackpot in the United States.
Here in Pennsylvania, one $2 million winning ticket was sold.
Sales of tickets soared in advance of the drawing.
Pennsylvania Lottery officials said "tickets were selling at 5,000 per minute statewide."
But it wasn't just in Pennsylvania, people lined up for tickets around the country in hopes they could beat the odds and win the giant prize.
In Lincoln, Nebraska, hundreds of people crowded a grocery store that gave out free tickets during a promotion organized by the Nebraska Lottery.
Truck driver Ron Schuster, of Martell, Nebraska, knows what he'd do with the money.
"Pay off all the bills, naturally, buy my wife a new car, put the rest in the bank, and sit around and play video games," he said.
Tawsha Anderson, a nurse in Lincoln, also had some plans mapped out.
"First thing I'd have to do is tithe to church, then I think we'd probably move. Buy some land. Pay off our parents' homes. Put some money away for the kids, their college education," Anderson said.
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