Maryland Mega Millions winner already in pool dispute
Says $105M is all hers; McDonald's workers say it's theirs
Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald's into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.
Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing.
We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The 'winning' ticket] wasn't on the group plan, McDonald's winner ...
Apr 2, 2012, 9:59 am - Lottery News forum
World's biggest lottery jackpot won by three tickets
Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas, Maryland
Final jackpot total of $656 million will be split three ways
How would you react if you won?
By Todd Northrop
The largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Friday night by three tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland.
Since early Wednesday morning, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot was raised three times in as many days, and by the time all the sales were totalled at draw time, the ...
Mar 31, 2012, 8:56 am - Lottery News forum
$640 MILLION: MEGA MANIA!
Mega Millions buying frenzy sends jackpot beyond highest imagined amount
By Todd Northrop
Even the state lotteries offering Mega Millions did not imagine a jackpot this large.
When Mega Millions last changed its number matrix in June, 2005, the lotteries said that it created the possiblility that could swell the game's jackpots as high as half a billion dollars. (See Odds longer, prizes bigger as California joins Mega Millions, Lottery Post, June 22, 2005.)
Could they have imagined t ...
Mar 30, 2012, 12:21 pm - Lottery News forum
Mega Millions fever sweeps nation as jackpot hits $540 million
Includes video report
Waiting with anticipation for that big drawing tonight? Here's a news story and some videos to help pass the time and keep those dreams alive.
Lines have been snaking around stores from coast to coast all week with customers looking to cash in on what has now become the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, tonight's $540 million Mega Millions drawing.
A now eye-popping 400 million tickets have been sold in just the last 48 hours for the drawing set to take plac ...
Mar 30, 2012, 8:53 am - Lottery News forum
$540 MILLION: Mega Millions buying frenzy sparks another jackpot increase
By Todd Northrop
The United States perhaps the world has never witnessed a lottery-buying frenzy like we are seeing this week.
Mega Millions tickets are being bought at such a rapid pace that the state lotteries in the Mega Millions consortium have raised the jackpot estimate for the second time in as many days.
Early Wednesday morning, just after 1:00 am Eastern Time, USA Mega announced the new record Mega Millions jackpot of $476 million after nobody won in the Tuesday evening drawing ...
Mar 29, 2012, 1:26 pm - Lottery News forum
$500 MILLION: Mega Millions sets all-time lottery jackpot record
Friday Mega Millions jackpot rewrites the record books as the largest lottery prize the world has ever seen
UPDATED 11:50 am: Jackpot revised to $500 million ($359.4 million cash)
By Todd Northrop
There will be a lot of daydreaming going on this week around America.
Dreaming about what it would be like to win a half-billion dollars.
That's because Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing did not produce a winner, sending the game into uncharted territory. The new jackpot for Friday, March ...
Mar 28, 2012, 1:12 am - Lottery News forum
Generous former lottery winner says she accidentally gave away second winning ticket
Says lottery ticket was mixed in with money she gave away
When Emily Leach stopped by Liquor Tobacco, a convenience store in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Mountain View, before Friday's drawing for the California state lottery's Mega Millions Jackpot then worth $290 million she was already a kind of celebrated figure at the store after winning $1 million on a lottery ticket she bought there in January.
Her recent good fortune allowed her to perform random acts of generosity for s ...
Mar 27, 2012, 3:34 pm - Lottery News forum
$363 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised due to heavy sales
By Todd Northrop
Mega Millions lottery players across the United States are pulling out the stops for the Tuesday evening drawing, which now stands as the largest Mega Millions grand prize in more than a year.
The estimated jackpot of the March 27, 2012, Mega Millions drawing was raised Monday from $356 million to $363 million because of heavier than expected sales in all Mega Millions states.
Likewise, the lump-sum cash value of the massive grand prize was raised to $259.8 million, an ...
Mar 26, 2012, 12:56 pm - Lottery News forum
$356 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot nears record
Biggest cash value jackpot in history
By Todd Northrop
After rolling over for the 17th consecutive time last night, the Mega Millions jackpot has been raised to a jaw-dropping $356 million for the Tuesday, March 27, drawing.
Tuesday's Grand Prize is the 5th-largest lottery jackpot of all time, but the drawing's most impressive distinction is it's cash value of $255.1 million. That's the lump-sum cash amount the winning ticket will payout if the winner chooses to receive the prize all at ...
Mar 24, 2012, 8:34 am - Lottery News forum
$290 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rolls again
Biggest Mega Millions jackpot in a year
68 tickets just missed winning the jackpot
By Todd Northrop
This is the time when both lottery regulars and casual players jump in with both feet.
The Mega Millions lottery jackpot has entered into the top 25 jackpots of all time, now sitting at number 17. It is the kind of top prize that makes people do a double-take at the cash register and throw down some extra bucks for a shot at glory.
And not only is the annuity jackpot nearing the to ...
Mar 21, 2012, 6:07 am - Lottery News forum
