LANSING, Mich. - A Marquette woman is looking forward to an earlier retirement after winning $100,000 playing Powerball. 

Gail Zorza, 62, matched four white balls and the Powerball - 10-11-47-55-58 PB: 26 - Saturday to win $50,000. Thanks to the Powerplay, her prize was multiplied by two for a $100,000 prize She bought her winning ticket at Cal's Party Store, located at 123 Genesee Street in Marquette.

ATLANTA – Pablo Martell of Brunswick is in ship-shape after winning an awesome prize. Martell won $50,000 recently in the Nov. 24 Powerball drawing.

Friendly Express, located at 2501 Perry Lane Road, sold the ticket.

According to the lucky winner, he was coming down with a cold and on his way home from the clinic when he stopped to buy the ticket.

Lincoln, NE – A group of five friends from Lincoln won $1 million playing Powerball from the Nebraska Lottery.

RALEIGH – James Bombard of Fayetteville said he had an extra reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving after he won a $100,000 Powerball prize.

“It feels like I’m in a dream,” Bombard said. “I couldn’t be more thankful.”

MISSOURI - Judging by the look on his wife’s face when Raymond Gawedzinski woke up on Nov. 8, he thought somebody had passed away.

“She called for me to come to the living room,” recalled Raymond. “When I walked out of our bedroom, she was holding the Post-Dispatch and had this look on her face. I thought she was looking at the obituaries and someone had passed away.”

With a huge smile and excited laughter, Nicole Argent claimed a $1 million Powerball prize from the drawing on Oct. 20. She purchased the winning ticket at U-Gas, 10743 Watson Road, in St. Louis.

It was just a normal day for Ruth Christiansen-Jones when she and her husband decided to check the winning Powerball numbers on the Virginia Lottery’s mobile app. That’s when their day became anything but normal.

“Baby, I think we just won a large amount of money!” her husband said.

RALEIGH – Benjamin Sinclair of Winston-Salem said a set of lucky numbers helped him win a $1 million Powerball prize.

“I’ve been playing the same numbers for five years,” Sinclair said. “They’re very special to me.”

RALEIGH – For Francisco Nunez of North Wilkesboro, a Powerball ticket bought online became an unexpected birthday surprise when he won $150,000 in Saturday’s drawing.

Nunez, who works at Tyson Foods, realized he was a big winner while playing video games early Sunday morning.

KENTUCKY - A mother and daughter have come forward with the $1 million Powerball ticket from the Wednesday, October 24, 2018 drawing.

Robyn Zapp, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, has been staying with her daughter, Nikki Wolf, while having renovations done on her house. 

Over the past several days, Robyn had given Nikki $20 to buy Powerball and Mega Millions tickets.  “I would go to the same store to buy the tickets,” Nikki said.  “I thought it might be lucky,” she said.