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The Illinois Lottery says the final winner of the record $656 million Mega Million jackpot has come forward. Lottery officials said Monday that the single winner will be revealed Wednesday. The other two winning tickets already have been anonymously claimed in Maryland and Kansas.
The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing has come forward to claim a share, a Kansas Lottery official said Friday.
A mother-of-seven who claimed she was one of the winners of the $656 million Mega Millions lottery told NBC News on Thursday that she has lost the ticket. Mirlande Wilson, 37, claims she bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Baltimore, but so far none of the three winners -- the two others were in Illinois and Kansas -- has actually come forward to claim the money.
The Maryland woman who claims to have one of the winning tickets to the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history called a press conference yesterday, didn’t speak and asked – through her lawyer – for the press to leave her alone.
If you didn’t buy your ticket in Illinois, Kansas or Maryland, you are out of luck. What is $640 million divided by three? More math than jackpot winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland will ever have to do again. Mega Millions announced Saturday that winning tickets for Friday’s record-breaking lottery were bought in those states. Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion on tickets, according to The Associated Press. The numbers drawn were 2, 4, 23, 38 and 46, and the “Mega Ball” was 23.
I don’t know whether I will be among the winners of tonight’s Mega Millions lottery—the chances are extremely low, but I do have a simple investment advise for the winner (s): DON’T PAY SOMEONE TO LOSE YOU MONEY!
Lottery ticket lines swelled Friday as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot cast aside concerns about odds to take a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire....
The country is in the throes of lottery fever, with millions of people in multiple states buying up tickets for a chance at winning the Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, now at $540 million. But are they suckers? Or is the lottery actually a good deal?