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Virginia Fike only meant to buy one Powerball and one Mega Millions lottery ticket from the clerk at her local OldeStone Truck Stop & Restaurant in the town of Clear Brook, Virginia.

As news continues to trickle out about the lucky winners of the record-breaking 656 Million dollar Mega Millions jackpot, some of it is undeniably positive. There were three winning tickets sold: one from Kansas, one from Illinois and one from Maryland. Today news broke about the Maryland winning lottery ticket.

If you bought your Mega Millions lottery ticket for the record-breaking 640 Million dollar drawing from the lottery of Illinois, Kansas or Maryland you should check your numbers very carefully because you may have won more than 213 Million dollars in prize money!

Nobody matched all six numbers in last Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing and that's great news for everyone playing the lottery this week! Now the jackpot rises to a record level of $476 million dollars which is enough to change the life of any winner, and even enough to be a life-changing amount for everyone involved in a syndicate or multi-winner scenario.

The Georgia Lottery games used to fund the HOPE scholarship and Pre-K programs may soon be getting a big boost thanks to a new resolution offered by lawmaker Ron Stephens from Savannah. His resolution in the Georgia State House would permit lottery officials to provide new 'video lottery machines' in any area where local officials request them.

Councilor Doug Ford is looking for new ways to push the lottery in Toronto to avoid resurrecting failed tax programs while continuing to fund important civic expenses. Recently he explained that the Toronto lottery or a new casino complex could be used to help fund transit projects instead of bringing back a car tax that had slowed the local economy.

Lucky For Life is a brand new multi-state lottery game being presented in New Hampshire with a grand prize that pays out $1,000 per day for life! Instead of a lump sum payout or a 30 year staged jackpot, winners can keep collecting their fortune for many decades a day at a time as long as they live!

Keno is one of the oldest lottery games and fans love it because of the fast paced action. Unlike other lottery ticket games, Keno drawings happen every few minutes, allowing players to enjoy multiple plays each day and watch the results in real-time from anywhere they happen to be. It's a centuries old lottery game and so far it is already available in 13 different states and Washington D.C.

Avid lottery players who keep their finger on the pulse of all lottery news by reading Lotto 365 regularly, may remember our recent story from 26/01/2012 titled Iowa Lottery Puts A Deadline On Jackpot Mystery. As we previously reported, a 2 Million Dollar Lottery jackpot was won but a New York lawyer attempted to claim the prize and wouldn't explain how he became the lottery ticket holder. Now his time has run out and Iowa is enforcing their deadline.

The State of Illinois is about to begin selling lottery tickets online and now the convenience store owners who have had a monopoly on lottery ticket sales for years are getting very nervous about the impact it will have on their own revenue.