She’ll use some of her winnings toward college tuition

An 18-year-old woman has won $1 million from Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing. Tanya Herrera, 18, of Campbellsville, Kentucky, won by matching the five white-ball winning numbers on her ticket but not the Powerball. The computer-generated quick pick ticket chose 22 as her Powerball number, but 10 is what was drawn for the $206 million jackpot. Herrera, who was in Somerset visiting her father, says she doesn’t have much experience playing the lottery. After checking the winning numbers on the internet, her dad suggested she go to the store to check it. “I really didn’t know what to do,” Herrera said. “I scanned it myself and when I saw $1 million pop up on the machine, I thought it was broken.” Herrera says she’ll use some of her winnings toward college tuition and is considering attending Western Kentucky University.

An 18-year-old woman has won $1 million from Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing.

Tanya Herrera, 18, of Campbellsville, Kentucky, won by matching the five white-ball winning numbers on her ticket but not the Powerball.


The computer-generated quick pick ticket chose 22 as her Powerball number, but 10 is what was drawn for the $206 million jackpot.

Herrera, who was in Somerset visiting her father, says she doesn’t have much experience playing the lottery.

After checking the winning numbers on the internet, her dad suggested she go to the store to check it.

“I really didn’t know what to do,” Herrera said. “I scanned it myself and when I saw $1 million pop up on the machine, I thought it was broken.”

Herrera says she’ll use some of her winnings toward college tuition and is considering attending Western Kentucky University.