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Check your Powerball tickets. Someone is holding a winning ticket worth $1,000,000 bought at the Casey's Store at 6515 County Road 136 in St. Cloud. The ticket was for last Saturday's (May 14th) drawing.

A group of 16 lunch ladies from Buffalo just missed winning Saturday's Powerball jackpot by one number. They matched four numbers, plus the Powerball, missing just one number.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) night's Powerball drawing will be the largest lottery jackpot ever in the world. Over $1.5 billion is on the line. About $870 million if you take the cash option. Minnesota State Lottery spokeswoman Debbie Hoffman says they're busy keeping up with demand.

Lottery officials say no jackpot winner was selected in the latest $380 million Powerball drawing. The next drawing will be Wednesday after no one matched Saturday's winning numbers.

A project engineer from a northwest Minneapolis suburb has come forward to claim one-third of a $448 million Powerball jackpot. Paul White, of Ham Lake, was introduced Thursday afternoon at a news conference at the Minnesota State Lottery's headquarters.

Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $550 million, a major climb less than a day after the latest drawing produced no winning ticket. The announcement Thursday by the Multi-State Lottery Association means ticket sales have soared as the frenzy grows for a chance to win the big prize.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $475 million after no tickets matched the winning numbers in the latest drawing. A message early Thursday on Powerball's website says there were no jackpot winners for Wednesday night's drawing.

The two grand-prize-winning Powerball tickets were sold in Arizona and Missouri, but seven tickets sold in Minnesota qualified as nice consolation prizes State lottery officials say one ticket sold in Minnesota matched all five numbers but not the Powerball. That ticket is worth $1 million.

The richest Powerball jackpot ever - and the second-largest top prize in U.S. lottery history - has been won. The question now becomes: Who are the lucky winners waking up to new lives as multimillionaires?