North Carolina Woman Says She Has a Winning Powerball Ticket
We know there are three winning tickets for last weeks $564 million Powerball Jakcpot. A lady in North Carolina says she has one of those tickets.
Her name is Marie Holmes and she is only 26 years old. She says she was recently forced to stop working so she could take care of her kids full time. One of them has cerebral palsy. Her share will be roughly $188 million. WECT TV interviewed her.
This lady talked to the media before she took her ticket to Lottery Headquarters. So we don't have that confirmation yet. Her uncle sold her the ticket at the convenience store where he works. Lottery officials confirm a winner was sold at that store.
Here is her ticket. Line D has the winners.
If Marie Holmes is the winner. I hope she is in hiding right now and I hope she signed that ticket and put it someplace safe. She broke all the rules in coming forward without preparation. I hope she gets some sound advice for dealing with all that money.
The other two tickets were sold in Texas and Puerto Rico. The Texas ticket was sold at the Appletree Food Mart in tiny Princeton, Texas, population 7,700,
USA Today reports Chandra Siwakoti owns the Appletree. For selling a winning ticket he will get $1 million. "I want to help my family," he told USA TODAY. "I have half of my family overseas in Nepal. My goal is to help those that are in a remote area of the country."
Chandra learned about the windfall when he got to his store Thursday morning. Camera crews met him outside and followed him into the store.
The last winning ticket was sold at a gas station in Ponce, a municipality in Southern Puerto Rico. Other than "Who is the winner?", another question is, "Will they have to pay federal taxes?"
Residents of the island don't have to pay federal taxes on income earned in Puerto Rico. What does that mean for the Powerball winnings? You can bet your Sweet Bumpkis the IRS is talking about that right now.
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