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Weekly News Briefing — Lottery Headlines for September 16, 2026

Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · 4 stories · Powerball & Take 5 Evening

Time for the weekly clippings. We pulled 4 lottery stories from the wires, trimmed each one to a single sentence, and lined them up below.

This week's stories

One sentence per story, in our own words, with a link to the original reporting if you want the whole picture.

• A Powerball ticket with matching numbers sold at a Wegmans supermarket in Upstate New York.

  via NewYorkUpstate.com → · Powerball · September 15, 2026

• A lottery ticket worth over $18,000 sold at a gas station in Yonkers.

  via DailyVoice.com → · Take 5 Evening · September 11, 2026

• A Green Bay Powerball player matched enough numbers to claim a $100,000 prize.

  via Green Bay Press-Gazette → · Powerball · September 15, 2026

• Powerball's lower-tier prize payouts are calculated using a pari-mutuel system.

  via Powerball → · Powerball · September 14, 2026

Summaries above are written by The Number Current in our own words; each link opens the source's original reporting in a new tab. For entertainment only.

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