Missouri announces location of winning Powerball ticket

The record $580 million Powerball jackpot will be split by the owners of tickets sold in Missouri and Arizona, according to lottery officials. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports. By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News A Powerball ticket worth $293.7 million was sold at a Trex Mart in Dearborn, Mo., lottery officials announced Thursday, revealing one of the two locations where winning tickets in the largest prize in Powerball history were sold. The other winning ticket in the $587.5 million jackpot was sold in Arizona, lottery officials said. Arizona officials said they would announce where that ticket was purchased during a news conference at 12 p.m. ET, adding no one had come forward to claim the prize in their state yet. Lottery officials have not yet said whether the winning numbers of Wednesday night's record drawing -- 05 - 16 - 22 - 23 - 29 and Powerball 06 -- were picked by individuals or groups. The jackpot had rolled over 16 consecutive times without a winner, prompting Americans to go on a ticket-buying spree in the run-up to the drawing. At one point, tickets were selling at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide — about six times the volume from a week ago. In addition, Powerball officials said that eight people won $2 million prizes and 58 other ticketholders won $1 million. "It is so exciting to sell one of these Powerball tickets," Missouri Lottery executive director May Scheve Reardon said in a press release Thursday.  "In addition, we sold two tickets that matched all five white balls, which means they each win $1 million. Three millionaires in one night is a wonderful night!" As lottery official Sue Dooley notes, tickets matching all five of the white balls in the record $580 million Powerball drawing, can be cashed in for $1 million in prize money. Those $1 million winning tickets were sold at Casey's General Store in Joplin and Sunfresh in Kansas City. Reardon advised all winners to be sure to sign the back of their tickets and seek legal and financial advice. Missouri winners have 180 days to claim their prize. Although this Powerball jackpot is a big one, it's not the largest lottery prize ever. That mark is held by the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot that was split by three ticket buyers earlier this year. The previous biggest Powerball prize was $365 million in 2006, shared by several ConAgra Foods workers in Lincoln, Neb.  Advice for the lucky people who won the huge Powerball jackpot 11 things more likely to happen than winning the Powerball jackpot Powerball is played across 42 states, plus Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands. On Wednesday afternoon, the Arizona Republic reported long lines at stores across Arizona that sold Powerball tickets -- particularly at the Arizona Last Stop in White Hills, the store to sell the most tickets in the state since the jackpot started rolling on Oct. 6, according to Arizona lottery officials.  Located about 35 miles from the border of Nevada, a state where Powerball isn't available, Arizona Last Stop store manager Lynda Yovanno Ducas said she had had lines stretching down the road since last week. "My Black Friday isn't over yet," she told The Arizona Republic. As for the winner or winners: All but five states -- Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota and Ohio -- require the lottery to release the winning names to anyone who asks, according to the Powerball site.  The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.