Powerball Jackpot

A professional skateboarder showed his “winning” ticket for the $1.5-billion Powerball jackpot on Instagram.

When the owners of three winning tickets lay claim to their share of a $1.5-billion Powerball jackpot, a fourth party will also get a slice — the federal government.

The search was on Thursday for the winner of the record Powerball jackpot, which was purchased in Chino Hills.

The chances of winning the record-setting $1.5-billion Powerball jackpot were a ridiculous 1 in 292 million.

The Chino Hills 7-Eleven buzzed with the excitement of a party Thursday morning.

Now that Chino Hills has claimed a Powerball winner everyone can expect free plastic surgery.

What we know is this: The nation’s largest lottery jackpot was won in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, and one of three winners purchased a lucky ticket in Chino Hills.

“Expect more than 500 additional guests on Wednesday = Huge sales potential,” advised a printout from corporate headquarters that’s hanging near the register at a 7-Eleven in Glendale.

Year after year, the voters in political consultant Gale Kaufman’s focus groups have gathered to talk about education funding in California.

Have you come down with Powerball fever yet?

Barry Epstein pulled his Mercedes-Benz sedan into the parking lot of a 76 gas station in Century City.

The chances of winning the record-setting $1.5-billion jackpot were a ridiculous 1 in 292 million.

Imagine a stack of one dollar bills reaching from Los Angeles to Tijuana with exactly one $1,000 bill in the stack.

Powerball had a problem last year: People were bored by the idea of winning hundreds of millions of dollars.

A national fever over the Powerball lottery rose higher Tuesday as officials confirmed that the historic jackpot had reached a staggering $1.5 billion.

Isaiah Gonzalez has played the lottery for more than two decades.

At Valley Foods Liquor in El Sereno, manager Bryan Guillermo rang up customers Sunday from behind a counter strewn with shredded lottery tickets.

The frenzy over the Powerball lottery has continued to build after Saturday’s drawing failed to produce a winner, leading officials to increase the jackpot Monday to a jaw-dropping $1.4 billion.

With no winners from Saturday’s record Powerball drawing, the jackpot is hitting billion-dollar territory.

At the end of a nearly 30-person line at the Bluebird liquor store in Hawthorne, Mark Willis clutched his blue lottery ticket holder.

With a record-breaking $900-million jackpot at stake, lottery players continued to line up Saturday to buy Powerball tickets.

At the end of a nearly 30-person line at the historically lucky Bluebird liquor store in Hawthorne, Mark Willis clutched his blue lottery ticket holder.

Describing the odds of winning Saturday’s Powerball drawing as “slim” would be an understatement — but it would also be an understatement to call the jackpot “big.”