A customer picks up her California Powerball lottery tickets at the famous Bluebird Liquor store which is considered to be a lucky retailer of tickets, in Hawthorne, California on Jan. 13, 2016.(Photo: Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)
A ticket winning the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in Chino Hill, Calif., the California Lottery said on Twitter Wednesday night.
The Associated Press reported that winning Powerball tickets were also sold in Tennesee and Florida, according to a California lottery official.
The combination to win the historic<span style="color: Red;">*</span>jackpot was<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>4, 8, 19, 27, 34 and Powerball 10.
We have a winner in California! A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Chino Hills. We’re still awaiting results from other states.
— California Lottery (@calottery)
January 14, 2016
The identities of the winners are not yet known.
The winning ticket in California was sold at a 7-Eleven <span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Chino Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles, according to media reports.
The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Los Angeles Times<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said people cheered and took photos in the store's parking lot Wednesday night. A store employee said the 7-Eleven had sold about $12,000 worth of tickets on Wednesday.
"I'm really happy," a store employee told the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Times. "It's very good news."
In addition to the winning ticket, the California Lottery said that 12 tickets matching five of the six Powerball numbers were sold for Wednesday's drawing.
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