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    Winning ticket sold in California for record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot

    by Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times Nov 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Joe Jr, left, in blue shirt and his father Joe Chahayed, center, holding the retailer selling bonus check for $1,000,000 at Joe's Service Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Altadena, Calif. Years ago Joe immigrated here from Syria he said.

    LOS ANGELES — One lucky winner bought the nation’s only matching Powerball ticket worth more than $2 billion at an Altadena gas station, becoming California’s first billionaire-by-lottery, state lottery officials said Tuesday.

    The winner hasn’t yet come forward, but Joseph Chahayed, the owner of the service station on West Woodbury Road, said he was hopeful the new billionaire would come from the neighborhood.

    In the meantime, Chahayed is celebrating a windfall of his own. Lottery officials surprised him

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