The new guidelines worked, causing jackpots to repeatedly climb to record levels.
A different positive headline came in 2001, when the town finally got a library soon after a nearby fundraising drive.
Though it was a big prize, it nonetheless wasn't the Powerball's largest — that came in 2016, when a $1.586 billion jackpot was won by 3 tickets in California, Florida and Tennessee.
It is located involving Durham, Cary, and Raleigh in North Carolina, across five,579 acres of land.