Powerball Jackpot reaches $1 Billion ahead of Wednesday night drawing
The Powerball craze across the country continues in the hours leading up to tonight’s drawing.
The jackpot is now worth one billion dollars after no one brought a grand prize-winning ticket for Monday’s drawing.
Wednesday’s drawing stands as the eighth biggest jackpot in Powerball history.
The one-billion-dollar grand prize cashes out to a value of $433 million. The jackpot is also the largest offered by any U.S. lottery game so far this year.
You can catch the drawing tonight before out 10 p.m. newscast on WXXV NBC, South Mississippi’s official lottery station.