From left, Paul White, 45, holds a check for his $149.4 million Powerball jackpot winnings with his partner Kim VanReese, co-worker Nancy Bowen and boss Ron Bowen at a news conference at Minnesota State Lottery headquarters in Roseville, MN. White was one of three winners of the Powerball lottery jackpot totaling $448 million. A Minnesota engineer was introduced on Thursday as one of three winners of a $448 million Powerball lottery, and said he was so excited to discover he had a lucky ticket that he ran around the office at a Minneapolis contracting firm where he works. "It's crazy, I've got to tell you," said Paul White, 45, a divorced father of a 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter. White said he learned on Thursday morning at Elliott Contracting in Minneapolis, where he works as a project engineer, that he had a winning ticket. He jumped up and ran around the office, and asked several people to look at the ticket to verify the Powerball number of 32 and numbers 5-25-30-58-59. He then went to the Minnesota Lottery office where he chose to take a cash payment of $86 million, or $58.3 million after taxes, from his $149 million share of the total jackpot. Read more http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-powerball-jackpot-20130807,0,1692417.story
