LOTTERY LINEUP: Here Are The 5 Top USA Powerball Jackpots And Their Winners

Powerball lottery officials say there were three winning tickets for Wednesday night's $564 million drawing - making the February 2015 draw the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever.

The winners - who have not yet come forward - will join a long list of people that Powerball has made very wealthy over the years, say CNN Money.

Here are the top jackpots in Powerball history and who won them:

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A Moving Rags To Riches Story: 84 Year-Old Powerball Winner Goes From Trailer To Lavish Mansion

$590.5M Powerball winner Gloria MacKenzie leaves the Crazy Egg restaurant in Florida alongside her son Scott and his partner Jerry Cruz.

I've just updated the Powerball jackpot figure in the sidebar (see 'Playing This Week'), and I noticed a worrying trend.

The jackpot figure has risen to a whopping $317 million without being won.
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$590 Million Powerball Winner Did Something Quite Despicable To This Innocent Family

In a story just come to hand, we discovered that the sweet old woman who won the $590 million Powerball last year was not who she seemed. And it took a 10-year-old to uncover her act.

Mindy Crandell and 10-year-old daughter Mallory.

It seems that before her win, 84-year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie was at the same lottery store as mother-of-two Mindy Crandell and her daughter. Then suddenly...

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The Offbeat Ways 4 Lottery Winners Spent Their Cash

Green Island’s new $250,000 spray park at the Paine Street Park, New York was built with a donation from State Lottery winners John and Linda Kutey in honor of their parents. The Kuteys donated $200,000 to construct the spray park. John Kutey was one of seven employees who cashed in a $319 million winning Mega Millions ticket in 2011. His share was $28.7 million.
Photo: Will Waldron/Times Union
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