Reader plans for Powerball lottery win

David Kaplan, a math professor at York College, said people would have to shell out quite a bit to guarantee success and claim the big prize.

The Powerball lottery drawing happens at 10:59pm EST on January 9, shown via live stream; you could be the lucky person taking home $900 million! The $1.4 billion drawing is the biggest prize pool in US lottery history. While the Megamillions and Powerball lotteries only redistribute about half of the money spent on tickets.

“They not only come in to buy lottery tickets, but our food business has grown, coffee sales have grown and it is all good for this store as far as business growth”, Greene said.

As local attorney Benjamin Garcia says, with the huge amount of money on the line, the fun can sometimes turn to greed and that can lead to legal problems.

“To do that, to guarantee it, you’d have to buy every ticket”, he said.

That ticket and two others in Texas, sold in Cove and Austin, also had all five of the winning white ball numbers over the weekend but not the Powerball number.

Powerball fever was in full pitch over the past week in the New Milford area as the jackpot grew to a record $1.5 billion before Wednesday’s drawing.

If you know absolutely nothing about how to play Powerball, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Organizations like Great Outdoors Colorado receives half its funding from the lottery.

“Ten percent of it would go to Roscoe United Methodist Church, and I’d help all of my family, and I’d buy a vacation house in Nags Head (North Carolina) and one in Maine”, said Cindy Fry, of Coshocton.

As for himself, Kaplan hasn’t gotten a ticket for his one in 292.2 million chance at winning.

A second place prize of $1 million is given to anyone who matches the first five white ball numbers in any order. A brand new jet can be purchased for $3 million bucks. You’ll have enough money after taxes to buy 210 jets.