No one won this weekend’s Powerball lottery drawing, pushing the new drawing into the triple digits. Check the report below to see just how big they reached.
The current Powerball lottery website info crawl reads:
“There were no jackpot winners for Saturday's drawing... The next drawing will be Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014,”
That means that the new totals have risen to $100 million.
The Powerball lottery is now reporting on the winner of a recent drawing, writing:
“What do popsicles and Powerball have in common? Not much, besides the same number of letters. But for John
"Jack" Long, the two will forever be intertwined. You see, Long was picking up his favorite sweet treat in Fontana, when he decided to test his luck and won $60 million.
"’I hadn't bought (lottery tickets) in a while, and I was at the store buying my popsicles and I go, 'Oh hell, let me get some of these before I get out of here,' Long explained. ‘I didn't ask or care how much it (the jackpot) was, just bought them on a whim.’
The retiree ended up buying three Quick Pick® tickets – one Powerball, one Mega Millions® and one SuperLotto Plus®. Long went home and didn't think much more of it until the night of the draw. That's when a neighbor stopped by and told Long the winning ticket was sold at Cardenas Market – the store with Long's favorite popsicles. The neighbor also said workers told him the winner was ‘a regular customer with a power wheelchair’. Long was a regular at the store and he did use a power wheelchair.
"’I didn't think anything about it because you never think 'it's me,' Long said. So he went about his business and figured he'd check his ticket the next time he was at the store. ‘I got to go sooner or later, that's where I get my sugar-free popsicles.’"
