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$1.5 billion Mega Millions winner explains how "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland stole $83 millionReply
I always thought anonymity meant the lottery wouldn't publish the name and location of winners. Doubt any state lottery can prevent a store clerk or even a neighbor that noticed a huge change in lifestyle from knowing their identity and revealing it. The day after it was known the MM jackpot was won, the store were the ticket was sold became national news. The winning $1.337 billion ticket was purchased at the Speedy Caf Speedway gas station in Des Plaines, Ill., a suburb northwest of C
Aug 17, 2022, 7:26 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

$1.28 BILLION: Lottery officials raise tonight's Mega Millions jackpot estimate againNews Story
Lottery ticket-buying frenzy throughout the USA By Todd Northrop Across the United States, lottery tickets are being sold at a frantic pace that the state lotteries are struggling to keep up. Most of those sales are for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, which features a jackpot reaching into stratospheric heights only seen twice before in world history and a lump-sum cash value worth three quarters of a billion dollars. Just a day after the jackpot was raised to $1.1 bi
Jul 29, 2022, 12:56 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$1.1 BILLION: Rush of Mega Millions lottery sales prompts officials to raise jackpot estimateNews Story
Now the 3rd-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop A rush of lottery ticket sales for the $1.025 billion Mega Millions jackpot has prompted lottery officials to revise their estimate for the Friday night drawing just one day after it was announced to $1.1 billion an increase of $75 million. The increased jackpot now ranks as the 3rd-largest lottery jackpot in history, and the 2nd-largest in Mega Millions game history. The all-important lump-sum cash value is now esti
Jul 28, 2022, 12:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot highest in 18 monthsNews Story
$530 million jackpot features cash option of more than $300 million By Todd Northrop After 26 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of $530 million that could instantly put the winner among the wealthiest people on the planet. When nobody won Friday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to its biggest amount since a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot from the Jan. 22, 2021 drawing was won by a sing
Jul 16, 2022, 7:23 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$790 MILLION: Fourth-largest lottery jackpot in history to be drawn TuesdayNews Story
Cash value worth nearly a half-billion dollars By Todd Northrop After 28 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of $790 million that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. When nobody won Friday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $790 million the largest since a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot from a Jan. 2021 drawing was claimed anonymously by a 4
Jul 23, 2022, 8:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

$630 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot soars after no winner TuesdayNews Story
12th-largest US lottery jackpot in history; 15th-largest cash value By Todd Northrop There are going to be a lot of lottery tickets sold this week. For only the 12th time in the history of United States lotteries, a lottery jackpot has exceeded $600 million. The new high-water mark of $630 million for the current Mega Millions jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's $555 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Friday's Mega
Jul 20, 2022, 8:14 am - Todd - Lottery News

One ticket sold in Maine wins $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpotReply
The whopping jackpot is the fourth-largest the world has ever seen, and the second-largest in Mega Millions game history Well hmmm.... Looks like the sixth largest and fourth largest to me Powerball: $997.6 million cash, Nov. 7, 2022 ($2.0401 billion annuity) - California Powerball: $983.5 million cash, Jan. 13, 2016 ($1.5864 billion annuity) - California, Florida, Tennessee Mega Millions: $877.8 million cash, Oct. 23, 2018 ($1.537 billion annuity) - South Carolina Mega Mi
Jan 14, 2023, 11:06 am - Think - Lottery News

Major claim deadline approaching for Illinois lottery winner of $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpotReply
I dont want someone else to control my allowance for 29 years,getting 5% increase each year ..... Just curious if anyone knows what are the federal and state income taxes going to be in 4 years from now ? How about 12 yrs, 17 yrs, 22 yrs, 26 yrs ?? I know that I will never reside in another state that has a state income tax. Can you imagine giving the state of Illinois the 4.95% income every single year for the next 29 years ? Does anyone truly and realistically believe as greedy and STUPID as o
Sep 14, 2022, 10:49 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

$1.55 BILLION: Powerball continues historic jackpot climbReply
Something to ponder: G Washington was our 1st president A Lincoln was from Illinois Ronald Reagan was married twice Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer What I'm trying to convey is ...... I think I'm gonna win the powerball jackpot Monday night! And if I don't win it .... let it be me or myself PU! Who ordered the liver and onions?
Oct 8, 2023, 12:17 pm - ShagE3 - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery starts its own Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawingsReply
I'm from Illinois and I would be very happy to share Indiana's Lottery machine results. It's not right having computerized drawings where you can't even see the numbers drawn. You get what ever number they choose to give you. Sometimes the numbers are posted to soon and it takes the excitement away. A lot of people are going to Indiana to play.
Oct 4, 2022, 5:42 pm - lottery lady - Lottery News