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LOS ANGELES - Two Southern California residents are bound to be feeling very lucky today. According to the California lottery, two Mega Millions jackpot tickets were sold at the same Encino gas station on Friday night. The Chevron gas station is located on Ventura Blvd near Lindley Ave. The two tickets held the winning numbers of 21-26-53-66-70 with a jackpot number of lucky 13. The unique win earned the ticket holders a grand prize of $395 million to share.

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) - Officials say the winner of the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from October has claimed their prize. The South Carolina Education Lottery Commission says the winner chose to remain anonymous and chose a one-time cash payout of $877,784,124. This is the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in the history of the United States, according to the SC Education Lottery. The winning ticket for the October 23, 2018 drawing was sold at the KC Mart in Simpsonville. “We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable...

Former adviser goes from Mega Millions to overseeing job training and gets a raise SACRAMENTO — A second controversial figure in the Schwarzenegger administration's battle against a lawsuit that seeks to shut down Mega Millions lotto as illegal quietly shifted jobs Wednesday to a tiny, obscure job-training panel. Schwarzenegger's former acting lottery director, Chon Gutierrez, quit in August while under political and legal fire for engineering California's entrance into the multi-state lotto game earlier this year. On Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's aides confirmed his special adviser to the $3 billion-a-year lottery, Kim Smith, who misrepresented herself as a reporter to...