Lottery tickets

• March 30, 2012 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- With a record $540 million Mega Millions jackpot in play, Illinois picked the right week to become the first state in the nation to sell lottery tickets online.
(Abc Local Web)
• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A world-record $540 million Mega Millions jackpot has lottery players lining up for tickets early Friday and many wondering if theres any way to guarantee becoming an overnight multimillionaire.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• A record estimated $640 million lottery jackpot has led to long lines in Arizona to purchase a ticket. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was increased by $100 million Friday.
(AZCentral.com)
• But at-home family members, too, are excluded. I also know that many employees say that the day they retire they will be buying their lottery tickets, Drucker said. State-sponsored lotteries go back to 16th-century England.
(NorthJersey.com)
• He knows his chance of winning is a long shot, and that the money the country is spending on tickets could go elsewhere. He still couldnt help himself, and laughed as the apparent contradiction of his opinion and his actions.
(Miami Herald)
• PHOENIX -- Two lottery tickets bought in the Valley are raising eyebrows. They were purchased by employees at Hughes Performance, a Phoenix company that specializes in rebuilding transmissions.
(AZFamily)
• HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- Fridays Mega Millions jackpot drew throngs to a Southern California liquor store considered lucky by lottery players hoping to cash in on the record-breaking $640 million prize.
(Fresno Bee)
• March 30, 2012 (INDIANAPOLIS) -- Hundreds of Indiana residents dreaming of lottery riches lined up across the state to get free tickets from the Hoosier Lottery for the $540 million Mega Millions jackpot.
(Abc Local Web)
• A slew of studies in the past two decades has found that low-income people spend a greater portion of their income on lottery tickets than do high-income individuals, meaning lotteries are a regressive way to collect tax revenue.
(CNN)
• If you are buying tickets for the Mega Millions lottery, how much are you spending on lottery tickets? E-mail us at money@huffingtonpost.com.
(Huffington Post)