Nobody matched all six numbers Monday, raising the Wednesday drawing to $1.73 billion for the annuity payout, $756.6 million for all cash.
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The purse will be the fourth-biggest jackpot in U.S. history — if there is a winner.
The numbers drawn Monday were 12-26-27-43-47 with a Powerball (red) of 5.
“It’s apocalyptic,” Frank Taylor said Thursday evening, the end of the seventh day of searching for the 50-person Nevada Task Force-1 he leads.
Park rangers are endangered by heat as well as visitors, say park officials. And heat sometimes prevents helicopters from getting enough lift.
Lottery drawings Friday and Saturday will be worth more than $1.4 billion total. The odds of winning are pretty much next to nothing.
About 1,000 people stranded in the park Friday were able to follow police escorts out. Damage to the park is being evaluated, but appears to have been extensive.
COVID-19 is affecting nearly all aspects of life and the customary white lily blooms will be a bit hard to find Easter Sunday.
“If you are coming here with an anything-goes party attitude, change your flight reservation now and go to Vegas,” City Manager Raul Aguila said at a recent City Council meeting.
Nevada Task Force 1, a team of urban search and rescue experts, which had been placed on alert for a possible response to Hurricane Laura, has been informed it will not be activated for storm relief.
Nevada has been added to the list of 16 states whose residents will have to enter a voluntary quarantine for 14 days if they travel to the Northeast.
The nuclear reactor vessel from the San Onofre nuclear plant, which will be the largest and heaviest object ever moved on a Nevada road, is heading for Las Vegas by rail.