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Powerball Pays $86 Million to Extended Pennsylvania Family
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By Baily Coleman
Published on 08/8/2008
 
A family of fourteen will split the Pennsylvania Powerball winnings of $86 million. Two brothers, who always split numbers between them, had agreed if they won they would take care of their nieces and nephews as well as their own families.

A family of fourteen will split the Pennsylvania Powerball winnings of $86 million. Two brothers, who always split numbers between them, had agreed if they won they would take care of their nieces and nephews as well as their own families.

The brothers, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are giving $1.4 million each to the other family members, and splitting the remainder. They plan to use their money initially to pay for vacations to Wyoming and Disneyland.

The ironic part is that Barrie Edwards didn't even mean to buy a Powerball ticket. Instead, he received the ticket as part of a promotion, a free reward for buying two Match 6 tickets.

Edwards realized Saturday night he had the winning numbers, and went to wake his wife to tell her. She said she commented, "Yeah, right!" and rolled over to go back to sleep, sure it was a prank.