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Lottery officials say nobody has won the Powerball jackpot and the top prize will now increase to about $425 million for the next drawing, the largest jackpot ever for the game.

The jackpot for Powerball's Saturday drawing has climbed to $325 million, the fourth-largest in the game's history... A single winner's cash payout would be nearly $213 million before taxes.

The Iowa Lottery says a Powerball game ticket sold in Iowa is worth $202.1 million.The ticket matched the six numbers drawn on Wednesday night. ...

A single ticket sold at a gas station in Michigan matched all five numbers and the red Powerball to win the $337 million Powerball lottery jackpot, the 10th largest prize in U.S. history, lottery officials said Thursday.

One person in America could be $320 million richer Wednesday night. That's when the Powerball drawing will be held in 42 states as well as the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, with a jackpot worth an estimated $320 million.

The Powerball jackpot has grown to $305 million for Wednesday's drawing. The prize grew after no one matched all six numbers in the multi-state lottery drawing Saturday night. The winning numbers were: 4, 13, 39, 46 and 51. The Powerball was 1.

Louise White, 81, of Newport, R.I., is winner of the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the game: $336.4 million.

The winner of Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot bought the ticket at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, Rhode Island Lottery officials say. No one has come forward yet to claim the prize, officials said Monday.

Three Connecticut men who work at a startup asset management firm have claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot.

Several hundred thousand Connecticut residents were still without power following last weekend's snow storm, but one of them may be holding a Powerball ticket worth $245 million.