Poll: Will you buy $2 Powerball tickets?
A Powerball ticket Credit: Albany Times Union
Get ready to pay more for Powerball: Ticket prices are going up to $2.
The move is a strategy to differentiate the game from Mega Millions, another big-money, multistate lottery game that sells for $1 a ticket. Both games are sold in 42 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C. Both have drawings twice a week, but are played on different nights.
A group of 20 Melville Costco employees won a $201.9 million Powerball jackpot last June, and it was announced last week that a winning $208 million Mega Millions ticket was purchased at King Kullen in Middle Island.
'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.
'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.
