Powerball

  • LifestyleAOL

    Three alternatives to the Lottery - would you try them?

    The changes to the National Lottery in the UK have put plenty of people off - as the odds of winning have become so remote that you've a better chance of being killed by your trousers than scooping the jackpot. Is has led plenty of people to

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  • NewsAOL

    The Brit who was one number away from winning £1 billion

    Sheffield lottery fan, Gary Fletcher (pictured - centre - with his family), read about the record PowerBall rollover in the US and the jaw-dropping jackpot of $1.6 billion (£1.17 billion), and he decided he fancied a piece of the action. He

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  • NewsAOL

    Man takes vow of poverty then wins $260m - what next?

    Roy Cockrum, a 58-year-old from Nashville in Tennessee, has won an incredible $259.9 million on the Powerball Lottery. This is worth over £151 million, and is a truly staggering sum of cash. But it leaves Cockrum with an interesting dilemma -

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    Florida woman wins $590.5m Powerball jackpot

    Luck was shining on one Florida lady this weekend as she awoke yesterday the winner of the $590.5 million (£389 million) US Powerball jackpot. The massive prize is the highest single Powerball jackpot in history, lottery officials have

  • EntertainmentAOL

    US Bankers win $254m lottery jackpot

    Pat Eaton-Robb/AP/PA If there's one group of people we all agree don't need any extra cash, it has got to be bankers with their big ticket bonuses while the rest of us are trying to make every penny count. So it was with embarrassment