The lucky ticket was sold at a Publix grocery store on Curry Ford Road in Orlando. The player opted for Quick Pick, meaning a lottery machine randomly chose at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.

Coincidence? Of the 12 times a lottery jackpot hit $1 billion, 2 winning tickets were sold from a beachtown Publix in Florida, for $1.58 billion prize

A ticket sold at the Publix on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami Shores, Florida matched all six balls in Monday's Powerball drawing to win the $214.9 million jackpot, according to the lottery website.

The player hit the jackpot at a Publix grocery store in New Smyrna Beach, a roughly 55-mile drive northeast from Orlando. The person chose the Quick Pick option, meaning a lottery machine randomly selected at least some of their ticket numbers, the Florida Lottery wrote on its website and in a news release.

Body cam shows the moment a Powerball jackpot winner is tackled and tased by a Florida officer following a dispute. Just days after winning the Powerball with his mother in Kentucky, James Farthing was arrested on April 29 for allegedly assaulting an officer in Florida.

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One lucky ticket, which won a $36 million jackpot in August of 2023, expired before it was claimed. Two of the lottery jackpots won in Florida were Mega Millions and one was a Powerball jackpot.

But odds aside — and the odds against winning are indeed astronomical, but we're good at space stuff, too — several Florida residents have won big in the Florida Lotto, Powerball and the Mega ...

A lucky Florida lottery player netted a jackpot win on a free ticket. The winner hit the Fantasy 5 jackpot, winning $126,849.83 in the evening drawing, Saturday, Aug. 2, according to the Florida Lottery’s website.

From millions of dollars to one spectacular downfall, the winner of the largest KY Powerball jackpot in history was arrested just days later. Newly-released body camera footage shows the incident.