- by cnn
- 15 Aug 2024
The owner or owners of the $1.08 billion winning ticket in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, sold at a convenience store in Los Angeles, have yet to claim the prize, which is among the largest in the game's history.
The winning numbers were 7, 13, 10, 24, 11 and the Powerball was 24.
The lucky ticket holder will have the choice between an annuitized prize paid out in installments over 29 years of $1.08 billion, or a lump-sum payment of $558.1 million, both before taxes, according to Powerball.
Wednesday's prize ranks as the sixth-largest US lottery jackpot and third-largest Powerball jackpot, behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year in California, and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016, according to the lottery.
Wednesday's winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles, according to the California Lottery. The convenience store will receive nearly $1 million for selling the winning ticket - money the store's owner says he plans to use to take his wife and four children on vacation.
Nabor Herrera, who said he's owned the store for about seven years, learned he sold the winning ticket as he arrived to work Thursday morning, his car flanked by reporters.
"I didn't know, I am finding out right now when they have me surrounded," he said. "They didn't want to let me park."
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