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The winner chose to remain anonymous, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery said, and sought legal and financial advice before coming forward.
One person is a whole lot richer after finally claiming the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot.
The Powerball jackpot will grow again after no one claimed the Monday, Dec. 29, jackpot. The winning numbers on Monday were 11, 19, 34, 48, 53. The Power Ball was 21 and the Power Play was 2x. The jackpot was $34 million with a cash payout of $15.8 million.
Video above: $1.817 billion winning Powerball ticket still unclaimed (Dec. 26) The winning Powerball ticket worth $1.817 billion has been claimed. The ticket was sold at a Murphy USA gas station in Cabot on Christmas Eve.
The headline number on the latest Powerball jackpot is designed to dazzle, but the tax code quietly slices that figure into something far more ordinary. An advertised $875 million prize can shrink by hundreds of millions of dollars once federal rules ...