1Essex County ticket hits $1 million as Powerball jackpot surges to $1 billion

TRENTON, NJ — A Bloomfield lottery player came painfully close to becoming a billionaire, matching all five white balls in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing to secure a $1 million prize — just one number shy of the record-approaching jackpot now swelling to $1 billion.

The winning ticket, purchased at Krauser’s Food & Liquor on Broad Street in Bloomfield, matched numbers 10, 16, 29, 33, and 69. Only the red Power Ball, which was 22, kept the lucky player from claiming the entire jackpot, which carries a cash value of $461.3 million heading into Saturday’s drawing.

Another Garden State player in Somerset also scored big — though not as dramatically — nabbing a $50,000 prize with a ticket sold at Main Street

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