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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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The number of yearly opioid overdose deaths in Milwaukee County continues to decline. Compared to 2022, there’s been a 54% decrease in fatal opioid overdoses, according to the county’s latest update to its Overdose Dashboard.
At a press conference April 21, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said that sharing this progress comes with mixed feelings.
“That data also tells us that 387 Milwaukee County residents lost their lives to drug overdoses last year,” said Crowley. “These are our neighbors. These are our loved ones, family members.”
In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared deaths from prescription painkillers an epidemic. That’s when local governments nationwide filed lawsuits against the parties involved in manufacturing, distributing and promoting opioids.
Dr. Ben Weston is the county’s chief health policy advisor. Weston explained the severity of how the nationwide opioid crisis was felt in Milwaukee County.
“We had one person dying every 16 hours from overdose,” said Weston. “Since then, there’s been a lot of work.”
Weston added that 17 people died from an overdose in a single weekend in 2023, which he described as “unimaginable levels of opioid use in our community.”
But 2023 was also the year that Milwaukee County learned it would receive $111 million over the next 18 years through opioid settlements. Weston said much of the county’s work has been preventative, like creating affordable housing, effective transportation and accessible mental health services.
Other efforts have addressed the crisis head-on, like installing free, no-questions-asked harm reduction vending machines, adding naloxone to emergency response vehicles and creating programs to prevent drug use among people who are incarcerated.
Weston said people exiting incarceration are susceptible to the highest risk period for overdose. As for the communities that face the highest risk of fatal overdoses, American Indian and Alaska Native residents are impacted the most.
Jeremy Triblett is the prevention integration manager at the Milwaukee Department of Health and Human Services. Triblett said the county’s FOCUS initiative, which stands for Featuring Our Community’s Untold Stories, is directly addressing Milwaukee’s Black, brown and Indigenous communities “to assess how they’re accessing their substances, and culturally, how does that intersect with their cultural norms.”
A community advisory board, comprised of people of color, is helping county officials facilitate discussions on harm reduction outreach.
EDINA, Minn. (FOX 9) – A deadly shooting in Edina sparked a massive police response and forced a lockdown at nearby businesses at Southdale Mall on Wednesday as police are searching for the suspects.
Deadly Edina shooting
What we know:
Edina police responded around 12:30 p.m. to the report of a shooting along West 66th Street near Southdale Mall.
At the scene, officers found one victim with a gunshot wound. Officers tried to revive the victim but say they ultimately died from their wounds.
Local perspective:
Police say the suspects ran from the scene. As a precaution, they advised nearby businesses to go into lockdown. FOX 9 learned that MHealth Fairview also went into lockdown procedures as a precaution.
Aerial video from the scene showed the investigation appeared to be focused around an apartment building across from the mall. Police say the apartment building is described as a transitional housing.
Avoid the area
Big picture view:
Police are asking the public to avoid the area as the investigation is underway. Officers have blocked off West 66th for the time being.
Police say they are looking for more than one suspect involved in the shooting.
What we don’t know:
Police say some people were taken into custody at the scene but it’s unclear what their role was in relation to the shooting.
Law enforcement near the 3300 block of W. 66th Street in Edina. (FOX 9)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WSBT) — We are just over a month away from one of the biggest events in racing.
Preparations are underway for the Indianapolis 500.
Street signs are being unveiled in Indianapolis, one for each of the IndyCar drivers.
Those drivers were on hand to help hang their own sign.
“It’s like the first tradition that kind of kicks off the month of May for us internally. So yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to hit the track soon and see how the cars feel this year,” said Alex Palou, four-time IndyCar Series champion
All signs will be up by the end of the week.
The big race is Sunday, May 24th.
You can watch the 110th running over on FOX Michiana.
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