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Powerball Hits $400M: Buy Tickets in Palmer and Forks
Grab a Powerball ticket while you're out running errands today and get in on a chance to win $400 million.
After two lottery drawings with no winner, Wednesday's Powerball has climbed to $400 million.
The odds of winning are 1 in 175 million, meaning you're more likely to have identical quadruplets or die from a bee, wasp or hornet sting.
Four-hundred million is a pretty staggering figure, but it's not the largest Powerball on record.
That honor goes to the $600 million drawing in May, won by Florida resident Gloria Mackenize. After taking a lump sum payout and paying taxes, she took home roughly $270 million.
No one close to home has been that lucky (yet), although a Wilson gas station did sell a $1 million lottery ticket earlier this year.
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To find Powerball vendors in the area, plug an address or ZIP code into the Pennsylvania Lottery website's retailer-locator application.
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