Patience pays off for $70 million Powerball winners

He said he later returned there to scan the ticket to see if it was a victor and couldn’t believe when it said he’d won.

Powerball winning numbers for July 29, 2015 results tonight are set to be released.

“‘I was very shocked when I checked the Lottery’s website and the numbers on my ticket matched what was on the screen, ‘ said Barzey”. Ruggeri-Rea, 61, has been the city’s courts administrator for almost 10 years.

A Carrollton man has won a million prize in the Mega Millions lottery.

Rea’s win marked the 31st time a Powerball jackpot has been won in Missouri.

Gas Mart store on Hampton Ave. where the winning Powerball ticket was purchased.

There were no jackpot winners in the last drawing on July 25, so the jackpot increased to a whopping $100 million. The drawing was, appropriately enough, on Independence Day.

The Reas took a lump sum payment of $42.7 million before taxes. It said the same thing, so I asked the girl who was working there to check it for me.

Rea, a building maintenance supervisor for the city of St. Louis, said he plans to retire immediately. “The manager came out and hugged me and shook my hand, and the girl was crying because she’d never sold such a big ticket”, Rea said.

Ruggeri-Rea was appointed to the courts administrator position by Mayor Francis Slay in 2006.

The Mega Millions jackpot is slowly climbing, but a much larger jackpot is at stake tonight. She said emergency help was needed to get the court’s financial books in order after staffers left.

The Rolling Cash 5 jackpot for the next drawing is $110,000 for hitting all five numbers and the odds of winning are 1 in 575,757.