Powerball: $1B jackpot winning ticket sold in LA

Three tickets worth $1 million each were purchased in Santa Clara, Hayward and San Francisco.

SANTA CLARA – No one in the Bay Area won Wednesday night’s $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot, but three tickets worth a cool $1 million each were sold in the region.

A single ticket that matched white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24 was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market at 1205 Wall Street in Los Angeles, lottery officials said.

In the Bay Area, three tickets matched all five white balls to win $1 million each. They were purchased at the 7-Eleven at 1590 Franklin St. in Santa Clara, Steve’s Liquors at 583 West Tennyson Road in Hayward and the Safeway at 4950 Mission Street in San Francisco.

Lottery officials said final ticket sales pushed the jackpot past its earlier estimate of $1 billion to $1.08 billion. That made it the third largest Powerball jackpot and the sixth largest U.S. jackpot ever won.

Other jackpots won this year include $754.6 million in Washington on Jan. 5 and $252.6 million in Ohio.

The jackpot winner will have the choice of receiving a lump sum payment of $558.1 million or an annuitized prize of $1.08 billion. Under the latter option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5 percent each year.

The next Powerball drawing, with an estimated jackpot of $20 million, will take place Saturday.