A Powerball ticket purchased in Leander won the estimated $20 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Another winning ticket was purchased in Florida.<\/p>\n
The prize money was comparatively small for a\u00a0Powerball jackpot because it came directly after another jackpot win. Last Wednesday’s winner took home $143 million.<\/p>\n
The Texas ticket purchaser chose the cash value option when buying the ticket, state lottery officials said, which is projected to be about $4.5 million before taxes.<\/p>\n
The last Texas ticket to win the\u00a0Powerball in September won a lottery that featured a $1.8 billion jackpot.<\/p>\n
“Saturday delivered a major win for a Texas Lottery player and an exciting moment for our state,” Courtney\u00a0Arbour, executive director of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It was only the fourth Powerball jackpot win claimed in Texas. There have been 15 Mega Millions jackpot-winning tickets purchased in the state, according to Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s winning numbers were 25-37-42-52-65 with a Powerball of 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Powerball ticket purchased in Leander won the estimated $20 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night. Another winning ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-278238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}