MADISON, Wis. (April 23, 2019) – The winner of the largest jackpot in Wisconsin Lottery history came forward to claim the prize today at Wisconsin Lottery Headquarters in Madison. Manuel Franco, who won the Powerball jackpot on March 27, claimed the cash option of approximately $477 million and will receive just over $326 million after state and federal taxes.

BATON ROUGE – Castulo Gonzalez of Sinton, Texas, will be returning home from Louisiana $250,000 wealthier. The winner, who is staying in the area for a short period of time while working at a Baton Rouge plant, purchased three Powerball tickets at Port Allen retailer 415 South Truck Stop for the Feb. 27 drawing. Nearly two weeks later, he learned one of those tickets was worth a quarter of a million dollars!

DOVER, Del. - A 79-year-old Selbyville man matched five white balls for the March 2nd POWERBALL® drawing, winning $1,000,000 before taxes. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, purchased two Quick Pick POWERBALL® tickets for the drawing from the Fenwick Island Goose Creek.

"I won $500 before, but obviously nothing this big," the man said. "I checked my numbers on the website (delottery.com) the morning after the drawing. I couldn't believe it."

After taxes, the man took home $760,000.

While visiting southeast Missouri, a man from the Memphis, Tennessee area happened to purchase one of two $50,000 winning tickets sold in the Show Me State for the March 9 Powerball drawing.

Michael Watson of Cuba, Tennessee said he generally plays the Powerball when the jackpots start to get higher than usual. With the March 9 jackpot at $414 million, Watson said he picked up some tickets from Huck’s Food Store, 823 E. Malone Ave., in Sikeston.

Lori Butterworth of Harrisonville is one of two Missouri players who matched four of five white-ball numbers plus the Powerball in the March 6 Powerball drawing to win $50,000.

Butterworth, who described her win as “shocking,” purchased her winning ticket from QuikTrip, 11101 E. 40 Highway, in Independence.

Lincoln, NE – Zach Norenberg of Fremont won $1 million playing Powerball from the Nebraska Lottery.

Norenberg purchased his winning ticket at Hy-Vee Gas at 828 East 23rd Street in Fremont. The ticket contained three plays, one of which matched five out of five winning numbers (06, 10, 21, 35, 68) but not the winning Powerball number (23) from the March 6 drawing.

Baltimore – After joking with his wife of 40-plus years that he and his son were going to start doing some traveling, the Columbia, Md. woman countered, “With what?” Her husband replied, “I won a few dollars.”

That’s when he showed her the $50,000-winning ticket from the Feb. 20 Powerball drawing.

Baltimore – A self-proclaimed lucky Marylander from Ellicott City has played the same set of Powerball numbers for years and won small prizes with the combination. For the Feb. 9 drawing, however, he hit for a much larger sum: $50,004.

LANSING, Mich. - A Clare County woman is looking forward to financial relief after winning a $200,000 prize playing the Michigan Lottery's Powerball game.

CLIVE, Iowa – An Illinois woman has plans to buy a house and a new car and get a big jump start on her retirement planning now that she has won a $2 million Powerball® prize.

"If I do it right, this should set me up for the rest of my life," Lisa Hays said as she claimed her prize Monday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.