New York lottery player won a $256 million Powerball jackpot.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Meanwhile, the Mega Millions jackpot is at $20 million after a lottery player in California won the $1.

After three months without anyone winning the top prize in the lottery, a ticket worth an estimated $1.22 billion was sold in California for the drawing Friday night. The winning ticket matched the white balls 3,

A Powerball ticket sold in New Jersey won $2 million, but just missed the $124 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers and the Power Play, but not the Powerball, in the drawing Wednesday, Dec. 25, the national Powerball site said.