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Lucky 7: Last big jackpot winners
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Show Caption ( + )The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was claimed by three winning tickets in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland. The winners included three Maryland public school employees - a woman in her 20s, another in her 50s, and a man in his 40s - who claimed $34.99 million each. A retired couple from Red Bud, Ill., Merle and Patricia Butler, claimed $111 million after taxes. The Kansas winner remains unknown as the state allows lottery winners to remain anonymous. - Show Caption ( + )
Two tickets from Idaho and Washington state split the $380 million jackpot. Jim and Carolyn McCullar from Ephrata, Wash., were the first to claim their $190 million share for matching all six numbers (4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and Mega Ball 42). The second winner was a single mother of two daughters, Holly Lahti of Idaho Falls, Idaho. - Show Caption ( + )
A giant check is displayed announcing a winner in the Powerball outside Murphy Express store on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 in Lexington, S.C. A $399.4 million winning Powerball ticket was sold at the service station just off I-20 west of Columbia. The single-ticket winner has remained anonymous as winners in South Carolina do not have to come forward publicly. - Show Caption ( + )
Two tickets from Arizona and Missouri claimed a nearly $600 million Powerball prize. The milestone win was claimed by Matthew Good of Phoenix and a pair of high school sweethearts from Dearborn, Mo., Mark and Cindy Hill. - Show Caption ( + )
Two tickets from Georgia and New Jersey shared what was then the largest jackpot in U.S. history. The winners were a Cape May County, New Jersey couple, Elaine and Harold “Barry” Messner, and a truck driver from northwest Georgia, Eddie Nabors of Rocky Face, about 90 miles north of Atlanta. Nabors took the lump sum payout of $116.4 million for his share of the $390 million Mega Millions prize. - Show Caption ( + )
Less than three months after the record Powerball in May 2013, three tickets split a record $448 million Powerball jackpot. Among the winners were 16 Ocean County, N.J., public employees, who work in the Vehicle Services department. - Show Caption ( + )
Powerball winner Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84 (left), leaves the lottery office escorted by her son, Scott Mackenzie, after claiming a single lump-sum payment of about $370.9 million before taxes in June, in Tallahassee, Fla. She is the largest sole lottery winner in U.S. history.