'Erwin, I think we've won Powerball'

Pat and Erwin Wales take home the big bucks.

SACO, Maine (CNN) -- A Maine couple who are sharing in a $295 million Powerball jackpot said Tuesday they have "no immediate plans" for their winnings, although a little travel and a new truck are on the horizon.

"We're going to take our time and get some advice on what we need to do," said Pat Wales at a news conference in Saco. "Erwin wants a new truck which I think will happen fairly soon."

Pat and Erwin Wales joined a Minnesota mother and an unemployed ex-convict from Kentucky in the exclusive club of Powerball winners, each claiming their $41.5 million pre-tax payout from Saturday's $295 million jackpot.

Pat Wales, who works in banking, said she stayed up Saturday night to watch the Powerball drawing while her husband went to bed. After copying down the numbers on a piece of paper, she compared them to the tickets she'd bought.

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"I found one that had 21 on the Powerball," she said. "My heart kind of picked up a little bit. I started looking at the rest of the numbers."

The rest of the numbers matched.

"I was shaking and started crying," she said. "I went up and said, 'Erwin, I think we've won Powerball' and he says, 'Yup' and goes back to sleep."

She was able to rouse her husband on a second try, and he verified the winning.

"I haven't slept yet," Erwin Wales said at the news conference. "I hope tonight I'll get some sleep."

Erwin Wales said he hoped to buy a new pickup truck with his winnings, and travel to some NASCAR races.

Pat Wales bought her winning ticket in New Hampshire, across the border from the couple's home in Buxton, Maine --- where'd she'd also bought some scratch-off tickets that won the couple $25.

'It's a poor man's dream'

The first winner to face the media after Saturday's drawing was an ex-convict who had turned his life around only to lose his job. He now has plans to help his family with part of his winnings.

"It's a poor man's dream," said David Edwards of Ashland, Kentucky, after lottery officials validated his ticket. He chose the lump sum payment of $41.5 million.

Edwards was convicted in 1981 of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to Kentucky corrections officials. In 1991, he was convicted of possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. He spent a total of 11 years in jail, spread out over 16 years. He was released on October 1, 1997.

Edwards says he'll buy a Rolls Royce convertible.

The no-longer poor man said he plans to buy a cream-colored Rolls-Royce Bentley convertible to replace his 1992 Buick Roadmaster that has "130,000 miles on it and a bad radiator."

In Roseville, Minnesota, Sheryel Hanuman, a medical records clerk in her 40s with a husband and three young sons, said she was still "shocked" by winning the drawing.

She bought five $1 tickets at a Cub Foods store Saturday when she stopped to buy a card on her way to a wedding. It was only the fourth time she had ever played Powerball.

"It means at little more freedom. It means I'll have a more secure future," she said at a news conference at Minnesota Lottery headquarters. "It means I'll be able to help my family in ways I never even thought of prior to this."

There were four winning tickets sold for Saturday night's drawing. The outstanding ticket was sold in Delaware, where winners are allowed to remain anonymous. The winning numbers were 8, 17, 22, 42, and 47 and the Powerball number was 21.

If each ticket has one owner, each winner would have the option of taking $2.9 million a year for the next 25 years, or an immediate $41.5 million.

Last weekend's jackpot was just shy of the $295.7 million won by a group of Ohio factory workers in 1998. It ranks as the third largest lottery jackpot ever in the United States, behind the 1998 jackpot and $363 million Big Game prize won by two players in Illinois and Michigan last year.