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Monday, March 18, 2013

Soda King Sells $1M Lotto Ticket, Are You the Winner?

A Manalapan Township convenience store has reportedly sold a winning $1,000,000 ticket from Saturday's Powerball drawing; the winner has not yet come forward.

If you purchased a New Jersey lottery ticket at Soda King in Manalapan, you may just be $1 million dollars richer. A winning NJ lottery ticket from Saturday’s Powerball was sold at the Gordons Corner Road convenience store and the winner has not yet come forward to claim the prize, New Jersey State Lottery Public Relations Manager Judy Drucker said. The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing on Saturday, March 16 were: The winning ticket purchased in Manalapan matched all of the five white ball numbers, but did not have the Powerball number of 16. The winning ticket also did not add on a Powerplay, an added bonus for $1 more. If the ticket added on a Powerplay it would have been worth $2 million. “You know people don’t want to spend the…

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Powerball Drawing Is Wednesday Night; Prize Reaches $500 Million

New Jersey is one of 42 states that offer the lottery game; find Monmouth County retailers and tips on how to play here.

Who wants to be a $500 millionaire? The jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing is estimated at $500 million, a record-breaking figure for the multi-state lottery game. Last year, Joseph and Celeste Tamburello of Tinton Falls won Powerball with a winning ticket from the Little Silver Family Pharmacy worth $70 million. While there is no question $500 million is a pile of money, it isn’t a record for U.S. lottery games. That title goes to the Mega Millions jackpot of $656 million that was split among three players in March, says CNN.  Wednesday’s jackpot has grown to a record pot because no one has matched the winning numbers in 15 straight drawings. The numbers for Saturday’s $325 million drawing were 22, 32, 37, 44, 50 and Powerball 34. …

Monday, March 26, 2012

UPDATED: Tinton Falls Couple Wins $70 Million Powerball [VIDEO]

Cha-ching! The couple took a lump sum pay-out of $41.5 million.

Joseph and Celeste Tamburello of Tinton Falls are the holders of the March 21 NJ Powerball winning ticket purchased at the Little Silver Family Pharmacy. "Unbelieveable," Celeste said of the $70 million jackpot she and her husband of 13 years claimed on Monday. "I just never in a million years thought that a $2 lottery ticket could turn into a $70 million Powerball ticket. That's for sure." Celeste, 41, said that she could still picture herself getting out of the car at the Little Silver Family Pharmacy where she said she just happened to stop to get a prescription filled on Sunday, March 18. "I just figured I was there, I should do my regular weekly thing," she said of the couple's habit of buying a few lottery tickets each week for the …

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