$320 million Powerball: Here are the winning numbers
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11 p.m. update: The winning Powerball numbers drawn Wednesday night are: 6, 27, 46, 51, 56; and the Powerball is: 21.
2:45 p.m. update: Georgia Lottery President Margaret DeFrancisco has announced she plans to retire. See latest story.
Previous story: With $320 million you could buy your closest friends a $2.6 million Bugatti Veyron Supersport car, one of the most expensive cars in world, or one of Germany’s $1.4 million Maybach Landaulet sedans, something a little roomier.
Or maybe you’re looking for a bigger place to live. The 35,000-square-foot Fleur de Lys mansion in Beverly Hills is still on the market for $125 million. It’s the most expensive home for sale in the U.S., according to Forbes. Or if you’re looking for something a little smaller and closer to home, former Hawks coach Joe Johnson’s 13,822-square-foot Old Londberry community home in northwest Atlanta is for sale for a mere $4.7 million.
Maybe you’re the Warren Buffett type, whose main goal is not conspicuous consumption, but rather to let your money work for you by investing in stocks and bonds. By the way, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway stock was selling for around $127,198 a share on Wednesday.
Whatever your plans, you’ll have plenty to work with if you hit Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot. It will be the fourth-largest in Powerball history.
Powerball is played in 42 states, including the District of Columbia. Tickets cost $2 for a single play for one drawing. The drawing is held at 10:59 p.m.
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Mary
August 15th, 2012
3:17 pm
1) Call the boss and tell him to KISS MY A$$……See Ya sucka…..
2) Pay off mine and my brother’s houses, set up college funds for all the kids.
3) Buy a jet, hire a pilot to be on stand by 24/7.
4) Scoup up TONS of foreclosed properties, and give them back to the owner/resident, and allow them to live in their homes and not worry about mortgages. These would only be the ones who have truly suffered, ie job loss, death of a spouse/child, etc. Not the moochers who think they are entitled…..
5) Wipe out the debt all my friends have…..
Buy the car of my dreams, and a small island……
Stash the rest with a trusted financial advisor.
ajc is boring
August 15th, 2012
3:31 pm
i would buy ajc just so i can fire the vent guy…..
nuclearjim
August 15th, 2012
3:32 pm
I’d spend it with reckless abandon at first buying toys, taking trips and helping family and friends with economic issues. And a series of private concerts with the Stone’s, The Who and Allman Bro’s. Then I’d set up my own charity – the familes of military members who lost their lives while serving their country. Basically with income issues, college funds, etc. And then fund political candidates who put freedom first and are against the Nanny State.
freeaswilleverbe
August 15th, 2012
3:32 pm
10% to Covenant Church in LaGrange GA…… 10% to campsouthernground.org …..10% to Nanfeng Orphanage, Nanfeng China (where my daughter is from) ….and move to an Island somewhere and live the good live off the proceeds from investing the other 70% in several Hedge funds and start living letting the rich get richer….Nice… What a dream!
Chuck
August 15th, 2012
3:33 pm
Susan C you are an idiot,stop blaming Mr Bush for Dumbo the President Obama’s terrible term as president.I would pay Obama to not be president anymore and try and make weed legal
De'Andre
August 15th, 2012
3:35 pm
I would by cigarrettes and fried chicken
CynthiaG
August 15th, 2012
3:40 pm
I would immediately quit my teaching job to create any opening for another teacher. I would be the wealthy benefactor that donates money to the school system to buy things that are truly needed, like new text books. I would also support the Boggs Mountain No -Kill Animal Shelter that maybe forced to close thanks to the poor management of their director. Since I have no children of my home, my nieces and nephews would be able to go the best schools. All my family members would be benefit as well. As for me, I’d build a beautiful home on a lake and buy another vacation home on the beach in Florida. I’d help Christian charities as well as support all Republican candidates in the upcoming election.
kns
August 15th, 2012
3:51 pm
Pay off my student loan debt!!!!
Tom Shoupe
August 15th, 2012
3:56 pm
My list is complete. Pay all bills off, 10k each to 5 relatives, a scholarship fund for my childhood church in the name of a Youth Activities Director, No charitable organization gets any money except for the Salvation Army. Their CEO makes less than 50k a year compared to the high rollers in charge of most others. 500l trust fund for my son. The rest will be parked in a safe place until I can decide who else is in need. The stock market will get 0 dollars. It is the evil empire manipulated on a daily basis. Enough said.
I'd Buy...
August 15th, 2012
3:57 pm
I’d buy Joe Johnson’s house!
HarveyD.Pooka
August 15th, 2012
3:59 pm
Oh, it’all cost $20 an hour if you want to follow me around and find out; $40 if you want to document it; $100 if you document it and share it.
Seriously (oh, I thought I was being serious!): (1) my best friend gets a new, reliable, safe automobile of her choice, up to $25,000. (2) 20% goes to trust fund for VJGC, to be dispensed at rate of 5% per year for their general account fund; (3) 20% goes into trust funds in names of my immediate relatives, to be dispensed to them at 3% per year; (4) 20% spread amoung favorite charities {1 Veterans group, 3 health reserch groups, 1 world hungar group, 1 animal rights group}; (5) 35% in trust fund investments for myself; (6) 5% kept handy for immediate needs, investments, and the ocassional frivalous expenditure.
I'd Bribe...
August 15th, 2012
4:01 pm
I’d bribe all the politicians and judges into giving my shell company huge government contracts and upholding them in court – thereby doubling my money. Then I would run for Governor.
Abdullah
August 15th, 2012
4:03 pm
These comments are funny. There is a reason why so many people will never earn that kind of money and those that do fall into it won’t be able to keep it. Most lottery winners go broke within 5 years.
Rusty
August 15th, 2012
4:08 pm
I would pay my bills as far as it would go.
Carlos
August 15th, 2012
4:17 pm
Goto mars.
Grits N Gravy
August 15th, 2012
4:33 pm
I would by my momma a car and spend the rest on PCP.
Rodedog
August 15th, 2012
4:39 pm
I am not giving anybody anything!! I am going to become a complete jerk and act arrogant with MY money. Why? Because it’s MY money. I will hire someone to FEED me. I will hire someone to drive me from my front door to my mailbox at the end of my driveway. I will hire someone to ALWAYS have an umbrella above me to keep the sun out of my eyes. And so on and so on. You get the picutre. If you win, you can do what YOU want!!!
Kathy
August 15th, 2012
4:39 pm
I would remain anonymous if at all possible, share it with family and friends anonymously and when they called to say they received some money, I would tell them ” I did too”. Establish a scholarship in my Father’s name, he was a teacher for 26 years and that would have made him smile and finally, I would do what ever I “want” to do, not what I “have” to do.
Ernie "Big Ern" McCracken
August 15th, 2012
4:40 pm
After all these years.., Finally, I am above the law.
Fred ™
August 15th, 2012
4:45 pm
gsueagle
August 15th, 2012
1:05 pm
pay all 100 senators to leave washington now
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Geez Louise, are you serious? The Koch brothers are spending almost a billion to keep them there, well at least the Republicans. You think you can spend a 10th of that (you’ll get what, 120 million after taxes? YOU don’t have the right offs the super rich do), and make a change lol. That’s chump change to the bought off Republican politicians. Hell Rush Limbaugh’s signing bonus on his last contract was over 100 million PLUS his salary.
Fred ™
August 15th, 2012
4:46 pm
Abdullah
August 15th, 2012
4:03 pm
These comments are funny. There is a reason why so many people will never earn that kind of money and those that do fall into it won’t be able to keep it. Most lottery winners go broke within 5 years.
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Who wants to bet that this poser makes less than 40 grand a year yet worships at the Neal Boortz/Rush Limbaugh alter? He totes their piss pots for them and hope they don’t miss and whiz on his head instead……… oh wait, they do and he LOVES it……
George T.
August 15th, 2012
4:51 pm
Pay it toward my debt as far as it would go.
sliderule
August 15th, 2012
4:53 pm
Barry from DC 2:27 pm
Anybody know what comes after a trillion???
A trillion and 1.
BabyGirl
August 15th, 2012
5:18 pm
I would build my mother, who is currently homeless, the home of her dreams.
Tuskegee One
August 15th, 2012
5:27 pm
I would put Romney where he needs to be alone!
molly
August 15th, 2012
5:32 pm
I would pay off all my debts, set up trust funds or college funds for my parents, daughter and a few other close relatives, send my brother far, far, away to rehab for as long as they will keep him…buy myself a new car, something sensible but nice, and let my daughter drive my old one (children shouldn’t have new cars). I’d buy myself and my daughter a house and pay off my parents’ mortgage. I’d go to the doctor since I haven’t had so much as a check-up in about 6 years. I’d travel with my family and a few friends, give lots of money to charities and political causes. Once I made sure I’d done as much as I reasonably could for my loved ones, I’d go to graduate school and pursue my dream of becoming a Shakespearean scholar, or perhaps, because I wouldn’t have to worry about making a living, become a teacher at my daughter’s wonderful high school, DeKalb School of the Arts, and I’d take the lowest salary offered, or no salary at all.
I’d also make very careful investments, buy lots of real estate (the market has to recover someday).
I’d happily pay my taxes, because taxes are the price of civilization.
ABBYSENIA
August 15th, 2012
5:34 pm
1. Contact my best friend and get in contact with a good financial planner.
2. Contact my mother and tell her not to tell anyone else.
3. Collect the money and pay off my friends and relatives..(pay off a house for this aunt or uncle) They all get a 100k or something like that. Cousins get it form your mother or father.
4. Give a million to my best friend, we have an arrangement to do that for each other if either of win
5. Buy a new kidney for my other best friend.
6. Donate money to another best friend that wants to open up a coffee shop.
7. Set up the rest in a trust to live off the interest so that it would lead to generational wealth for the family.
8. Donate some to the churches I’ve attended.
9. Get up a college trust fund for my relatives.
10. Live a comfortable life happily ever after.
Not buying expensive car or house…that’s how people go broke. Decent house in a safe neighborhood. Quality car… Maybe a Ford(buy american) if I get a benz etc.. it will be standard edition. LOL
PoudOFun
August 15th, 2012
6:08 pm
I would pay off all my bills, quit my job and lavish my family and friends with their grandest wishes and desires. I would then settle into obscurity.
Brittany H
August 15th, 2012
6:31 pm
Give my parents a third then move out so me and my daughter could have a good life. And not be stuck living with my parents. Go to school to become an ultrasound technician. Get a car and a house so that I can be on my own and live my life how I want
Narnie26
August 15th, 2012
6:37 pm
10% to God, then split three ways with my two sons and their families. With the stipulation that their childrens’ education will be paid for before any frivilous money is spent!
Fred ™
August 15th, 2012
7:03 pm
Narnie: God has a checking account? Would that be 10% gross or net? And what does God need money in Heaven for anyway? He owns everything up there and is in charge. I doubt he has to pay for sodas or anything…….
rykyboy
August 15th, 2012
7:37 pm
I would be a 1 % er with an attitude of the 99%-er. Buy my wife two (2) Cadillacs, an Arabian stallion, and a house with a four (4) level underground car elevator. Uh, uh, oh yeah, give myself a hundred million $$ IRA. Yup, that ’s what I’d do!
Edward
August 15th, 2012
7:38 pm
I would pay for my funeral
DJ
August 15th, 2012
7:51 pm
That would be just enough for me to have one child and put him/her through college by end of high school.
Miss Bee
August 15th, 2012
7:56 pm
I would donate to my church and to the handful of charitable organizations that my family and I have benefitted from over the years as well as some that do great things for at risk youth. I would renovate and pay off the home I live in as well as the rental property that I have. I would pay off my Mom and Sister’s homes set up trust funds for my children and my sister’s children. Take my family on exotic vacations. With the advice of my attorneys and financial advisors I would embark on several business ventures and investment opportunities. Then sporadically commit Random acts of kindness such as paying rent for families who are about to be evicted from their apartment
grad ATL
August 15th, 2012
8:03 pm
I’d set up a financial system so that I could live off the interest, Then I’d buy a nice used car (nothing fancy enough for someone to want to steal), pay off all my student loans, pay for a laundry service, pay for a personal trainer for everyone in the family, buy only organic groceries, pay for someone to clean the house all the time, move into a little nicer house (nothing too big or fancy), invest in enough bookcases to have a library of over 20,000 books and then buy said 20,000 books, go to school and collect degrees like they’re baseball cards (part-time only of course), buy the best homeschool curriculum out there for my kids and homeschool them.
Everyday Liberal
August 15th, 2012
8:37 pm
I would give all of it to Barack Obama because he knows what’s best for me.
Rhonda
August 15th, 2012
8:37 pm
Hmmm—That’s a lot of dough! To save the economy and this country I’d put a good portion of it into making sure Obama doesn’t get another term! He definitely enjoys spending our tax dollars on all kinds of “failed” and corrupt ventures! Oh yes, I forgot! He inherited his bad money management from Bush! Isn’t it great to always have someone else to blame? Why on earth anyone would vote for another four years of this is insane! If this loser gets re-elected, we all better start putting “A LOT” of $$ aside for our kids and grandkids! They will never have anything but government debt to look forward to!
Calvin G. Sims, Sr.
August 15th, 2012
8:46 pm
Surround myself with the two things I love most; horses and children. Never miss a Falcons game, ever!
Go Falcons!
marc fish
August 15th, 2012
9:09 pm
seriously, i would spend it all on questionable women
JB
August 15th, 2012
9:16 pm
Offer to buy Obama some Economic and American History lessons.
fer
August 15th, 2012
9:16 pm
Pay off the school loans of many family members, set up a foundation to send REALLY deserving students to college and even graduate school, invest the rest. Oh, and probably get a new car to replace the 11-year-old compact that I’m driving.
Ron Shupp
August 15th, 2012
9:34 pm
Upgrade Douglas County High School
Purchase a state of the art Score Board
Give Back to the school system for doing a great job for my children.
Sarah
August 15th, 2012
9:39 pm
Church, family, needy, homeless children shelters. I would give the rental homes to the renters for 100.00 and move to the mountains with my family.
But I won’t win either so there you go.
dawg51
August 15th, 2012
9:44 pm
First…I’d have to hire someone to give a sh@t……second…..refer everything and everyone else to First……baahaa!!!!! cya
DeDe
August 15th, 2012
9:50 pm
I would pay off my 2 best friends houses. Buy a new car. Nothing flashy. I would build a house for myself with a large studio. Then I would build and open a Kennel to take in pets of any kind. The pets men and women are afraid to leave behind in an abusive situation/relationship, therefor they don’t leave. It is a horrible situation to be in, to love your pet so much and know if you leave it behind it will probably be tortured and/or killed. So you don’t leave to protect your (dog) that has loved you and helped you stay sane. We would take care of your pet until you can get it or find it a good home.
American
August 15th, 2012
9:55 pm
Pay someone to shut Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.
SmokinFletch
August 15th, 2012
10:11 pm
I am allergic to cash money. I get rid of it as fast as possible. It would be gone fast,
Buy a golf course and let worthy fund raisers use it for no charge. Land in the mountains for a deer camp. Fish camp on Ga. coast. I’d be broke in no time.
mrlucky7
August 15th, 2012
11:24 pm
Move to Costa Rica…
manni
August 15th, 2012
11:43 pm
If I win, I wanna try two hot babes…for a night or two.