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Powerball jackpot flashback: Three record-breaking drawings worth remembering in 2025
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Since no one claimed a Powerball win on Saturday, Oct. 11, the next Powerball drawing rolled over to Monday evening.
The estimated jackpot for the Monday night drawing was $258 million — with a cash value (lump sum) of $120.8 million.
And now, with no winners of that, per the Powerball website, the next drawing will be held on Wednesday, with an estimated jackpot of $273 million (cash value $127.8 million).
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This year has seen record-breaking wins across the country — with some standout stories as well. Here are three remarkable Powerball wins from 2025 so far.
$1.787 billion September jackpot
A massive $1.787 billion jackpot was claimed and split between two ticket-holders in September.
One of two unnamed lottery winners purchased the winning ticket, valued at $893.5 million, from a QuikTrip gas station in St. Louis, Missouri, as The Associated Press and lottery officials reported.
A giant lottery advertising sign is seen along Highway 101 when the U.S. Powerball jackpot climbed to $1.70 billion in Belmont, San Mateo County, California, on Sept. 4, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62, with a Powerball number of 17.
The Missouri ticket-holder split the earnings with another winner who bought a ticket from a Fredericksburg, Texas, convenience store and gas station.
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This prize was reportedly the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history, as it carried on for 41 consecutive drawings without any matches.
$526.5 million jackpot in California
In March, Powerball announced a jackpot winner in California.
The ticket was worth $526.5 million, with a cash value of $243.8 million.
Powerball said that final ticket sales raised the jackpot from its earlier estimate of $515 million.
A customer is shown holding a number slip for Powerball lottery tickets for a $750 million grand prize jackpot inside the Bluebird Liquor Store, which has sold winning tickets in past large lottery jackpots, in Hawthorne, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
The California Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was purchased at an Orange County 7-Eleven in Anaheim.
The winning numbers for the Saturday, March 29, drawing were white balls 7, 11, 21, 53, 61 and red Powerball 2. The Power Play multiplier was 3X.
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This same drawing also included five winning tickets valued at $1 million each.
The winning million-dollar tickets were sold in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and two in Georgia.
$328.5 million jackpot to start off the year
A Powerball player in Oregon claimed the first jackpot of 2025 on Jan. 18.
The winner claimed $328.5 million after matching all six numbers in the Saturday-night drawing. The jackpot’s cash value was $146.4 million.
The winning numbers were white balls 14, 31, 35, 64 and 69, plus red Powerball 23. The Power Play multiplier was 2X.
A newsstand in Manhattan is shown advertising the latest Powerball jackpot on Sept. 5, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The same drawing also matched a ticket in Michigan valued at $2 million.
The jackpot winner, identified as Abbas Shafi, was a 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, according to a report from The Guardian.
He purchased the ticket from a local Fred Meyer convenience store.
The winner of the third-largest prize in Oregon’s history said he plans to spend his winnings traveling, making investments and donating to nonprofit organizations that are “close to [his] heart.”
Bonus tale: ‘Needed to give it all away’
Donation was also close to another winner’s heart, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
A Virginia grandmother who used ChatGPT to help pick her Powerball numbers struck it big and donated it all to charity. Carrie Edwards of Midlothian matched four of the first five numbers, plus the Powerball, in the Sept. 8 drawing, winning $50,000. But because she purchased the Power Play option, her prize tripled to $150,000, according to the Virginia Lottery.
Edwards said she knew instantly what she wanted to do with the unexpected windfall.
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“I knew I needed to give it all away because I’ve been so blessed, and I want this to be an example of how other people, when they’re blessed, can bless other people,” she said at a press conference.
Deirdre Bardolf of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.
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Don Lemon defiant after pleading not guilty in Minnesota church case, vows he will ‘not be intimidated’
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Former CNN host Don Lemon remains defiant after he pleaded not guilty to charges related to the viral protest takeover of a Minnesota church last month.
“This isn’t just about me. This is about all journalists, especially here in the United States,” Lemon said outside the courthouse Friday.
“For more than 30 years I’ve been a journalist, and the power and protection of the First Amendment has been the underpinning of my work,” Lemon told reporters. “The events before my arrest and what’s happened since show that people are finally realizing what this administration is all about. The process is the punishment with them.”
“And like all of you here in Minnesota, the great people of Minnesota, I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will fight these baseless charges and I will not be silenced,” he added.
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Journalist Don Lemon (C) leaves with his legal team after an arraignment hearing at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Feb.13, 2026, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lemon has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to violate someone’s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Lemon, who last month livestreamed anti-ICE agitators storming St. Paul’s Cities Church under the suspicion that its pastor had collaborated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was charged with conspiracy to deprive religious freedom rights and a violation of the FACE Act. Prosecutors did not seek to detain Lemon.
Lemon was arraigned alongside far-left agitators including William Kelly and Nekima Levy Armstrong, who have been accused of helping organize the church takeover. All five people arraigned on Friday pleaded not guilty.
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Don Lemon has seen a spike in social media subscribers, appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and been feted at the Grammy Awards since his arrest. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Lemon has insisted he was working as a journalist and was not part of the group that harassed churchgoers. He is represented by Abbe Lowell, who previously represented Hunter Biden, and Joe Thompson, who was the lead prosecutor who helped uncover the massive $250 million Feeding Our Future food fraud case tied to the state’s Somali community. Thompson resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in January.
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While documenting the hostile invasion of the church, Lemon called it a “clandestine mission.”
“You have to be willing to go into places and disrupt and make people uncomfortable. That’s what this country is about,” Lemon said.
Don Lemon went viral for livestreaming the anti-ICE protest at St. Paul’s Cities Church last month. (Don Lemon/YouTube)
Agitators disrupted the religious service and “intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including young children, and caused the service to be cut short,” according to a federal affidavit.
Churchgoers told law enforcement that members of their parish attempted to retrieve their children from a childcare area located downstairs, but the agitators were blocking the stairs, and the parents were unable to get to their children. One churchgoer later expressed fear that the agitators may have guns underneath their jackets and noted that aisles were blocked, making it difficult to leave.
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime, with potentially steep fines and jail time, to use or threaten to use force to “injure, intimidate, or interfere” with a person seeking reproductive health services, or with a person lawfully trying to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. It also prohibits intentional property damage to a facility providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship.
Lemon, who was fired by CNN in 2023 and then went the independent route, has seen his profile grow since the arrest, including an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and a surge in his subscribers.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
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Call it a Fruit of the Loom footchase, a jog in Jockeys, a lope in lululemon, or a sprint in skivvies.
But its organizers call it Cupid’s Undie Run, and the annual race that has runners strip down to their unmentionables is set for Saturday, Valentine’s Day.
In Detroit, the race is scheduled to be held from noon to 4 p.m. and starts at Tin Roof Detroit, 47 E. Adams Avenue near Comerica Park downtown.
Cupid’s Undie Run Detroit
More than 225 people attend Cupid’s Undie Run Detroit at Tin Roof, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 12, 2022, to raise money to fight NF.
Todd McInturf, The Detroit News
Saturday’s forecast for the race calls for partly sunny skies and a high of 38 degrees in Detroit, according to the National Weather Service.
Thousands of undie runners in cities across the U.S. come together every February for the event, now in its 16th year. In the inaugural run in 2013, Detroit had 500 participants.
The race raises money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. The charity uses it for research aimed at ending neurofibromatosis, a group of genetic conditions that cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body.
BATON ROUGE — LSU baseball’s path to a repeat College World Series championship officially begins Friday, Feb. 13.
Opening Day for the 2026 season has arrived and coach Jay Johnson and his preseason No. 1-ranked Tigers will kick things off against Milwaukee at Alex Bos Stadium. First pitch is schedule for 2 p.m.
LSU opens up the season with a barrage of games, playing nine over the first 12 days of the campaign.
The Daily Advertiser is providing live updates during LSU baseball’s season opener against Milwaukee. Follow along.
LSU baseball vs Milwaukee probable pitchers
- LSU – RHP Casan Evans (5-1, 2.05 ERA)
- Milwaukee – LHP Matthew Mueller (1-2, 5.23 ERA)
Evans will start Opening Day for LSU. The righthanded sophomore has just three starts under his belt coming into 2026 but is expected to be among the top pitchers on the Tigers’ staff. For Milwaukee, Mueller will get the ball. He is one of the most experienced starters on the Panthers’ club with six starts a season ago.
What time does LSU baseball vs Milwaukee start?
- Date: Friday, Feb. 13
- Time: 2 p.m. CT
- Where: Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge
What TV channel is LSU baseball vs Milwaukee on today?
- TV: N/A
- Streaming: SEC Network+
- How to watch online: ESPN app
LSU baseball 2026 schedule
| Date | Opponent |
| Feb. 13 | Milwaukee |
| Feb. 14 | Milwaukee |
| Feb. 15 | Milwaukee |
| Feb. 16 | Kent State |
| Feb. 18 | Nicholls State |
| Feb. 20 | Indiana (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| Feb. 21 | Notre Dame (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| Feb. 22 | UCF (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| Feb. 24 | McNeese State |
| Feb. 27 | Dartmouth |
| Feb. 28 | Northeastern |
| March 1 | Dartmouth |
| March 2 | Northeastern |
| March 4 | at Louisiana |
| March 6 | Sacramento State |
| March 7 | Sacramento State |
| March 8 | Sacramento State |
| March 10 | Creighton |
| March 13 | Vanderbilt* |
| March 14 | at Vanderbilt* |
| March 15 | at Vanderbilt* |
| March 17 | at Grambling State |
| March 19 | Oklahoma* |
| March 20 | Oklahoma* |
| March 21 | Oklahoma* |
| March 24 | Louisiana Tech |
| March 27 | Kentucky* |
| March 28 | Kentucky* |
| March 29 | Kentucky* |
| March 31 | Southern |
| April 3 | at Tennessee* |
| April 4 | at Tennessee* |
| April 5 | at Tennessee* |
| April 7 | Bethune-Cookman |
| April 10 | at Ole Miss* |
| April 11 | at Ole Miss* |
| April 12 | at Ole Miss* |
| April 14 | Northwestern State |
| April 17 | Texas A&M* |
| April 18 | Texas A&M* |
| April 19 | Texas A&M* |
| April 21 | New Orleans |
| April 24 | at Mississippi State* |
| April 25 | at Mississippi State* |
| April 26 | at Mississippi State* |
| April 28 | Southeastern Louisiana |
| May 1 | South Carolina* |
| May 2 | South Carolina* |
| May 3 | South Carolina* |
| May 5 | Tulane |
| May 8 | at Georgia* |
| May 9 | at Georgia* |
| May 10 | at Georgia* |
| May 14 | Florida* |
| May 15 | Florida* |
| May 16 | Florida* |
Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com.
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