Amanda Houston, 24, native of Johnson City wins big powerball.

Saturday, June 24th 2017, Amanda Houston’s found her life would never be the same when she hit the 3.4 billion dollar powerball. Down to her last dollar, Amanda put her last hope into the ticket that would forever change her life. Amanda says the first thing she’s going to do is take her husband and daughter, on a big vacation. After returning from vacation she plans to adopt all the dogs from the animal shelter, eat steak dinners every night and put away money for her daughter’s education. When asked if she plans to spread the wealth with her family and friends she replied that she was in foster care growing up and never had family and she doesn’t have any friends or in laws, so she’s keeping all of her money to herself.