$61M Lottery Ticket Sold In Laguna Hills
The winner will have the choice of taking annual payments over 30 years or taking a lump sum of $37.3 million.
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The winner will have the choice of taking annual payments over 30 years or taking a lump sum of $37.3 million.
The weather has gotten cooler, but Southern California is heating up with lottery fever as the jackpot for Tuesday night's drawing of the Mega Millions grows to $449 million.
This holiday weekend could bring true independence to a lucky Mega Millions or Powerball player – especially for someone who plays both!
It would do lottery players a disservice to leave out that Saturday's SuperLotto Plus jackpot is up to $13 million.
The Mega Millions lottery game has reached it fourth highest amount all time and is tied for the 12th-largest jackpot in U.S. history, being estimated at around $390M.
The ticket was purchased at the Food 4 Less located at 18318 Vanowen Street.
No tickets sold with the winning Mega number, so the Friday jackpot rolls to at least $87 million.
KCAL9's Peter Daut outlines some facts new millionaires wish they knew before the big check showed up.
Mega Millions is at $165 million for Thursday,
California Lottery officials say a winning Mega Millions ticket worth more than $3.15 million was sold at an Orange gas station and remains unclaimed.
While most people dream of winning the Mega Millions lottery, for some people targeted by scammers, the dream is too good to be true.
The winning ticket matched the numbers 2, 11, 22, 9, 23, missing only the Mega Number 12.
The drawing was the 17th since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
There's still time to make it a Mega May, with the estimated jackpot for Friday's Mega Millions drawing expected to grow to $194 million.
The record jackpot reached $590 million in May 2013.
Since no ticket matched all six numbers, Tuesday's jackpot soars to an estimated $321 million.
A lottery ticket that was recently sold at a Inglewood convenience store is now worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Lottery officials said a Mega Millions ticket sold in Long Beach is worth $1.2 million.
The record jackpot reached $590 million in May 2013.
A father of five was introduced Wednesday as the $180 million Mega Millions Jackpot winner.
Lottery officials said a Mega Millions jackpot ticket sold in Riverside County is worth $180 million.
The record SuperLotto Plus jackpot was $193 million in February 2002.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 24, 34, 36, 57, 58 and the Powerball number was 11.
A very lucky Southland resident is waking up $30 million richer after being the only person to pick all six numbers in Friday's Mega Millions drawing.
A Mega Millions ticket worth more than $344,000 was sold in Burbank, California lottery officials said Saturday.
