Tag: Mega Millions lottery

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 08:06 UTC

  Three players (and the tax man) share largest lottery jackpot in US history

  

  The largest lottery jackpot in US history, 656 million dollars, will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 00:43 UTC

  Jackpot with 319 million US dollars benefited seven New York state employees

  

  Despite reports that seven New York state government workers held the winning 319 million US dollars ticket in the Mega Millions lottery, as of Sunday, no one had come forward to claim the prize, a New York Lottery spokeswoman said Monday.