TENNESSEE
One Mid-South Tennessee man hit it big-$2 million big.
Donald Coffman, from Millington, matched 5 out of the 6 numbers for the lottery and then doubled the prize because of the Powerball Power Play.
He only purchased a ticket because his father told him to play.
"He told me to play and dream big," said Donald Coffman, who claimed the mega-prize on
Monday at the Tennessee Lottery's Nashville headquarters with his wife, Joanna. "So I did!"
Coffman said he plans on building a house.
NEW YORK
A supermarket on Staten Island says it's donating its lottery earnings to a local soup kitchen.
The Stop & Shop on Hylan Boulevard sold the winning ticket for the Saturday, August 11th's $245 million Powerball jackpot.
The store received a $10,000 commission which they say they'll give to Project Hospitality, the largest food pantry and soup kitchen on Staten Island.
So far, the winner of the big jackpot has not come forward.
NORTH CAROLINA
Richard Silverthorne woke up one Thursday morning, turned on the local television news, and as he watched a report on the winning Powerball numbers discovered he was a $100,000 winner.
"It was sort of hard to believe at first," said Silverthorne, who works in facility maintenance for a local food processing company. "I re-checked it. Several times."
Silverthorne said he almost missed the drawing. When he stopped at the Country Mart in Stokes, he bought his regular Pick 3 ticket and started to leave. Then, realizing it was a Wednesday, he turned around and asked for a $3 Power Play ticket.
The Quick Pick ticket matched four of the white balls and the red Powerball for that Wednesday's drawing for a $50,000 win. When the 2X multiplier was picked, his Power Play ticket doubled the win.
Silverthorne got a co-worker to confirm the win at work and then asked for the rest of the day off. A single father since the death of his wife, he picked up his daughter and headed to Raleigh to claim his prize.
He said he planned to pay some bills, buy his daughter a better car  perhaps a Dodge Dart  and take the vacation they didn't get to take this year. The prize money might also help cover the cost of his daughter's senior trip.
