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A customer fills out a lottery ticket in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday before the winning numbers for the $640 million jackpot were drawn in the Mega Millions lottery.
By James Eng, msnbc.com
The wait is finally over ? for real this time. One of the three winners of the record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot has claimed?a $218.6 million share of the prize in Kansas.
Kansas Lottery officials scheduled a press conference for 3:30 p.m. local time Friday (4:30 p.m.ET) at state lottery headquarters in Topeka.
No further details about the winner will be released before the press conference, officials said. They?ve previously said the winning ticket was bought at a store in northeast Kansas.
Lottery officials have said the other two winning tickets were sold in Maryland and Illinois. But so far no one has stepped up to claim his or her share of the prize in those states ? at least no?one who has produced a valid ticket.
One Maryland woman, Mirlande Wilson, a McDonald?s employee and mother of seven, had claimed to media outlets earlier in the week that she purchased the winning ticket to last Friday night's drawing. But doubts quickly surfaced, and on Thursday Wilson told NBCWashington.com she seems to have misplaced the ticket.
Maryland lottery officials said no one has stepped up in that state?to claim a share of the prize, the largest in lottery history. Likewise, the Illinois winner has yet to come public.
The winning numbers were: 2-4-23-38-46 and the Mega Ball 23.
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