586 megamillions jackpot

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Mega Millions $586M record jackpot after no winners in Friday drawing

Next drawing is Tuesday at 11pm
Current prize is $586million, but experts say it could surpass $650million
Players must buy a ticket by 10.45pm EST on Tuesday to be eligible



good luck

[SandiF]

wow 586 million dollars. best wishes to the winner(s).

[kia027]

ohh mek mi go spend mi $1 even getting 5 numbers should be decent $$

[Blackstar*]

Where can we play?

[Wahalla]

Dis marwning mi check mi investment and i noted a 1031 % increase in one.... I quickly did a calcualtion and it was valued at 5.6 million pounds... then i checked nothing on the news on it... then i went to the roumour board.... it was a 15 to 1 consolidation....

But for a brief moment i was retired....

[Peasie]

Don't count your nest eggs before they're laid?

[My Looh]

In a related news story.... there's this....

Calgary lotto winner says he'll donate $40 million jackpot to charity


A Calgary man who won $40 million says he will donate it all to charity.
Tom Crist was the winner of the Lotto Max jackpot on May 3.
“Cancer is a big one because my wife passed away from cancer, two years ago in February,” Crist said Monday.
“I just retired at the end of September so I was fortunate enough in my career to set myself up and my kids anyway, and there was no doubt in my mind where that money was going to go, it was going to go to charity."
Crist plays both Lotto Max and Lotto 6-49 by subscription, meaning players can pay for their selections for up to a year at a time.
Subscribers’ numbers are checked for them by the Western Canada Lottery Corp. after each draw and they are automatically paid any prizes won.
In the case of any prize over $10,000, subscribers receive a telephone call first.
Crist says he never expected a call telling him he'd won the largest lotto prize ever in Calgary.
“I wasn’t even sure which game I’d won on, or what the numbers were,” he said after his prize was announced Monday. “I’ve paid for the subscription when I get the renewal notice every year, and then I just file it.
"Sometimes I’d get a cheque for $10 or $20, but I never expected this.”
Crist's prize is also the largest won on a lottery subscription within the Prairie-North lotteries region.

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Where can we play?

43 states, D.C., ann even da virgin island

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good luck

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Don't count your nest eggs before they're laid?

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natt widd 1 in 259 million odds

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[seemiyah]

It gone up to $636 million now.

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EXCLUSIVE: Bronx native Ira Curry announced as one of two Mega Millions winners
The Georgia resident, who grew up on 179 St., will rake in $120 million after taxes. Her sisters still live in the Bronx and are planning to move as quickly as possible.


A Bronx native will take the money after she won half of the $648 million Mega Millions jackpot — and her sisters back home say they’re going to run.

Georgia resident Ira Curry, 56, has come forward as one of the two winners who will take home a massive chunk of the lottery windfall.

Curry will take the cash option and, after taxes, will rake in about $120 million, Georgia Lottery Corporation president and CEO Debbie Alford said at a press conference from Atlanta on Wednesday.

“They were very, very excited about the win,” she said. “They’re still in a state of shock.”

Curry did not know of her win until this morning. She heard on the radio that the Mega Ball number was 7, the one she had picked, Alford said. Curry called her daughter, who read off the rest of the winning numbers through “joyful tears and laughter,” Alford said.

“I asked her how she kept from veering off the road and she said she was just in a state of disbelief,” Alford said.

But the payday, while spectacularly exciting, is sending her sisters scurrying from the spotlight — and the Boogie Down borough.

“I’m stunned,” Curry’s sister, Jalunda Baker Price, told the Daily News inside her first-floor apartment in Lambert Houses on E. 179th St. “It’s just really hitting me, like it’s really true.”

Curry, an insurance company underwriter, now lives in Stone Mountain, Ga. But her Bronx brethren — Price and another sister, Brenda Baker, who still live in the apartment they all moved into 40 years ago — played a part in her unexpected bonanza. The married mom bought one ticket, using a combination of Baker family birthdays and the family’s lucky number, seven.

Curry came forward with her golden ticket around 11 a.m. Wednesday, 12 hours after the drawing. The shocking win unsettled her sisters.

They told The News they’re thrilled for Curry, but worried about the sudden attention. By Wednesday afternoon, the frantic sisters were making rushed plans to move, possibly even out of state.

“We’re happy, but look at where we live,” said Brenda Baker, motioning to the public housing building. “Our lives could be in jeopardy. It’s happy, it’s joyous, but we have to protect ourselves.”

Though Curry now lives like “a Southern belle” in her Atlanta suburb, her sisters said, they were all raised by a single mother in West Farms.

“My mother raised us by herself,” said Price, 48. “We’re very close. (Curry) is a Southern belle. She looks just like Halle Berry. She shares, she’s really nice. She’s such a sweet lady, she deserves the money.”

After Curry heard on the radio that the Mega ball number was 7, she immediately called her daughter, Georgia Lottery Corp. president Debbie Alford said.

Curry’s excited daughter read off the rest of the winning numbers through “joyful tears and laughter,” Alford said.

The new multimillionaire’s sisters are still awaiting details.

“She only had time to call us this morning to let us know,” said Price. “We really haven’t talked about it.”

Curry, who couldn’t be reached for comment, will split the jackpot with a California winner who has yet to come forward.

Records show the lucky player and her husband, Talmer Curry, 74, filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 1994. That type of bankruptcy filing allows the debtor to repay creditors in installments over three to five years. The case was discharged in 1999.

Curry bought her ticket at Gateway News, in Atlanta, but the owners won’t receive any bonus for selling the winning ticket because of Georgia state lottery rules.

The winning numbers were: 8, 14, 17, 20, 39; Mega Ball: 7.

The jackpot was the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ira-curry-stone-mountain-ga-announced-mega-millions-winners-article-1.1552036