Mega millions

• California lottery offices opened for business Monday at 8 a.m., but by midday only two of the 29 people who hit five of six Mega Millions numbers had come forward to collect their $227,955 prize.
(Los Angeles Times)
• (CBS/AP) - After all the rush to buy tickets, none of the three ticket holders who matched all six numbers in the record-breaking Mega Millions $656 million jackpot have come forward. The tickets were purchased in Red Bud, Ill., Milford Mill, Md.
(CBS News)
• BALTIMORE (AP) - The record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot climbed to $656 million on Monday, though no one holding one of the three winning tickets has come forward yet to claim a share of the prize, officials said.
(msnbc.com)
• MIDDLETOWN, Pa., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Lottery sold a record five tickets worth $250,000 each for the March 30 Mega Millions drawing.
(YAHOO!)
• In 2008 I wrote a book called Son of a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers and What to Do When You Win the Lottery. Whenever a jackpot hits record highs, like the Mega Millions lottery did last week, the book climbs to the top of the Amazon charts.
(Huffington Post)
• The record-breaking Mega Millions lottery jackpot was even larger than first believed. Lottery officials on Monday said the total jackpot was $656 million, more than the $640-million estimate they gave before the drawing Friday.
(Los Angeles Times)
• A Baltimore woman is claiming one-third of the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot, but colleagues at the McDonald's restaurant where she works say Mirlande Wilson bought the tickets for a workplace pool — and that they're winners too.
(The Vancouver Sun)
• ST. LOUIS -- Congratulations, Mega Millions winners! Youve just won the biggest lottery in history. Move over, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Not so fast, Richie Rich.
(Detroit Free Press)
• The final tallies, released Sunday, saw the jackpots raised to $656 million for the annuity, and about $473.6 million for the cash. Those new marks shattered the old ones and could last for years. But the individual windfalls wont be historic.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• Jefferson, Mo (KSDK) -- The record Mega Millions jackpot means $7.1 million for Missouri education. The real winner is Missouris public education, said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery.
(KSDK)