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!

RALEIGH – Lloyd Dockery of Lowell said he’s got a million reasons to sing after winning a $1 million Powerball prize.

The Southern gospel singer bought his Quick Pick ticket for Saturday’s drawing when he stopped to get gas at the Lowell Mini Mart on McAdenville Road in Lowell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Baltimore – Robert Stanton, a utility worker in Anne Arundel County, Md., is what Maryland Lottery officials refer to as a “jackpot hunter.” While he may buy a Pick 4 ticket or scratch-off occasionally, this Lottery player is after the bigger money that a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot can deliver.

Although he missed hitting the jackpot, the 46-year-old was more than pleased to claim a $50,000 prize in the Jan. 30 drawing!

RALEIGH – Margo Konopacke of Travelers Rest, S.C., treated herself to a Powerball ticket for her birthday and ended up with a $2 million present.

“It’s an incredible birthday gift,” Konopacke said. “I still can’t believe it. Everything feels surreal.”