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The winning ticket for the annual Montana Millionaire contest was sold right here in Missoula.

How much longer though?

The prize for Friday's Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $900 million after no one won it Tuesday.

The Mega Millions lottery drawing being held Tuesday night is now for a pot of an estimated $636 million, not far off from the record $656 million Mega Millions prize awarded in March 2012. If there's no winning ticket, then Friday's drawing could top $1 billion.

The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

There are about a million reasons why Jennifer Maldonado has the best coworkers in the world.

Everyone who plays the lottery has their own fantasy of what they'd do first if they won. Two brothers from Wichita, Kan. celebrated their big lottery win by buying meth and weed, which resulted in them accidentally blowing-up their house and getting arrested...

The odds of striking it rich in the lottery are remarkably small, but apparently it really helps if you’re a math genius. Several years ago, a group of students from the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology cracked the lottery code that enabled them to win millions of dollars — and state officials did nothing to stop it.

Having a sorted, organized bag post-cleaning is a major bonus in itself, but a woman in Georgia has given incentive to cluttered bag owners everywhere after she found a lottery ticket worth $190k stashed at the bottom of hers. Rhonda Williams, a 55-year-old Fairburn resident, told reporters last week that she found the Fantasy 5 ticket at the very bottom of her purse after she decided to clean it