Arkansas’ lottery plunged into selling tickets to the Powerball multimillion-dollar jackpot Saturday night, joining 30 other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing in Orlando, Fla., will be about $66 million if no one won Saturday night’s jackpot, said Ernie Passailaigue, executive director of the Arkansas Lottery Commission,
Drawings are held at 9:59 p.m. on Wednesday and Saturday nights.
With Arkansas’ lottery selling Powerball tickets,there’s no reason why Arkansans should cross the border to play somebody else’s lottery, Passailaigue told a few hundred people attending the lottery’s Powerball party in the River Market Pavilion.
The start of Powerball ticket sales at 10:15 ...
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