Daily Taos News

New Mexico had two winning tickets in the powerball - not the BIG winners - but these were sold for 1-million-dollars, and 2-million-dollars. There were two winners of the big powerball jackpot... those tickets were sold in arizona and missouri. The jackpot topped 580-million-dollars. In case you missed it, the numbers drawn last night were 5, 16, 22, 23, and 29... and the powerball number was 6. 8-point-9-million-players won smaller prizes, including about 60 who each won a million-dollar prize for matching five numbers. At one point, tickets in new mexico were selling at a rate of more than 7-thousand a minute...  New Mexico lottery officials say since last sunday, people in new mexico bought almost 5-million-dollars worth of powerball tickets.