Photos: Nebraska Powerball winners
Gallery of Nebraska Powerball winners.
In this 2006 photo, employees enter and leave the Conagra Foods ham-processing plant in Lincoln, where eight co-workers were the holders of the winning $365 million Powerball ticket.
In 2006, the winners of the then-record $365 million Powerball lottery jackpot were announced at a press conference at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. The press conference was carried on live television and featured a throng of reporters and photographers worthy of a presidential visit.
Top row, from left: attorney James Hoppe, Robert Stewart, Alain Maboussou, Dung Tran, Eric Zornes and David Gehle. Bottom row, from left, Chasity Rutjens, Quang Dao and Michael Terpstra. The winners of what was then the nation's largest lottery prize were revealed at a press conference in the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in February 2006.
Siena Francis house residents receive gift cards to buy Christmas presents, courtesy of Alain Maboussou, the former meatpacking plant mechanic who shared a Powerball winning ticket with seven other co-workers in 2006. Maboussou made yearly donations of $20,000 for Christmas shopping trips for Siena Francis guests.
Bob Pagani, a man claiming to be an out-of-work truck driver who had won the $365 million Powerball jackpot, turned out to be a hoaxer. His hoax started falling apart as reporters questioned discrepancies in Pagani's story, including how the ticket was purchased.
Powerball lottery winners, Erica, right, and David Harrig, of Gretna, who won $34.1 million in December 2013.
Theresa Gulizia, co-owner of the Speedee Mart, gets another phone call about the winning Powerball ticket sold at her store in December 2013.
This winning Powerball ticket netted $50,000 for 37 employees of Baxter Auto in La Vista in January 2016. One more correct number would have netted them part of the $1.5 billion jackpot.
Eric Brewer, a service technician at Baxter Auto, proudly displays the $50,000 check he and 36 other employees at Baxter won in a Powerball drawing in January 2016.
Check out this history of Nebraska Powerball jackpot winners.
Fifteen years ago today, the eight winners of what was then the nation's largest lottery jackpot stepped forward to raucous applause at a press conference in Lincoln.