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The Virginia Lottery is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was created in 1987 when Virginians voted in a statewide referendum in favor of a state lottery. The first ticket was sold on September 20, 1988. All profits from Virginia Lottery ticket sales go to K-12 public education, as required by Virginia's constitution.
A person buys a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a store on July 29, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. The jackpot for Friday's Mega Millions is now $1.1 billion, the second-largest jackpot in game history.
August 23, 2024 at 10:16 AM. VIRGINIA - The Mega Millions will have a drawing Friday night and the jackpot has increased to an estimated $535 million. Virginians have been feeling pretty lucky in ...
Five winning tickets worth $1 million were selected in Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, according to a Jan. 1 Virginia Lottery news release. Seven other tickets had $100,000 prizes ...
June 27, 2020. (2020-06-27) (aged 72) Known for. Winning the Powerball in December 2002. Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. (October 9, 1947 – June 27, 2020) [1] was an American businessman in the construction industry. He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was ...
www.megamillions.com. Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game. The first drawing took place on September 6, 1996, with six participating states, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
A sailor wound down with an online lottery game — and nabbed the largest instant win in an online game in U.S. history, according to the Virginia Lottery. “It was surreal!” Byron Bundoc told ...
Odds of winning jackpot. 292,201,338 to 1 [2] Website. www.powerball.com. Powerball is an American lottery game offered by 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and overseen by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which also manages other large jackpot games such as the Mega Millions.