Mega Millions jackpot won in Maine; Bay Area ticket worth nearly $1 million
Someone matched all six numbers Friday and won an estimated $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize.
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Someone matched all six numbers Friday and won an estimated $1.35 billion Mega Millions prize.
While there was no winner in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing for the $1.1 billion jackpot, a ticket matching five of six numbers was sold in Los Angeles County.
She took home the biggest prize possible in the game as several others in the state won millions from their own scratch-offs.
The last time a Mega Millions jackpot was won was Oct. 14, when holders of two tickets sold in California and Florida shared a $502 million pot of gold.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
There was one winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought in Illinois, according to megamillions.com.
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The winning numbers for the $830 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot are in. One ticket matching five numbers was sold in Baker, California worth $2.9 million.
Todd Graves promised to split the prize, which as of Monday had risen to $810 million, with all of his employees if any of the tickets win the jackpot.
Friday night's Mega Millions drawing was for a pot of gold of at least $660 million, according to lottery officials.
Lottery retailers in nearly every state are clustered in poor neighborhoods, driving a wealth transfer to multinational corporations.
A trip to buy groceries at a San Francisco Safeway store has become a life altering experience for one local resident, according to state lottery officials.
Hey, somebody's got to win it sometime, right? Well that time came Wednesday as the winning ticket for the $630 million Powerball jackpot was sold in Sacramento.
California Lottery officials in Sacramento confirmed that Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot had risen to an estimated $630 million hours ahead of the drawing.
The winning ticket to Monday's night $699.8 Million Powerball drawing was sold at the Albertsons located at 730 Quintana Rd. in Morro Bay.
San Francisco's school board voted to change the admissions policy at the city's prestigious Lowell High School.
Petaluma police are seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating a man who stole lottery Scratchers tickets from a 7-Eleven store, police said.
One winning ticket has been sold Michigan for the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot.
Bay Area dreams of becoming a multi-millionaire have been dashed for now, at least through a Powerball jackpot, after a single winning ticket was sold in Maryland Wednesday worth an estimated $731.1 million.
With the third largest jackpot in lottery history on the line Tuesday night, Bay Area residents are grabbing Mega Millions tickets in the hopes of hitting it big.
No players got lucky with Saturday night's drawing for a $640 million Powerball prize, according to lottery officials.
There was no winner in Friday night's Mega Millions jackpot drawing, propelling the top prize in Tuesday's drawing to a staggering $850 million. Now, the attention turns to Saturday night's Powerball drawing with an estimated jackpot of $640 million.
