2 Winners Come Forward to Claim $1.3 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Nearly 8 Weeks After Drawing
Photo: Getty ImagesThe$1.3 billion Mega Millions jackpothas finally been claimed.Nearly two months after the numbers were drawn, the winner of the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history has stepped forward, according to theIllinois Lottery.The sum will be split between two people who had agreed to do so and have “stayed true to that word,” Illinois Lottery said.The ticket was purchased at a Speedway gas station in Illinois earlier this summer.“They stopped into the Speedway in Des Plaines and grabbed a Mega Millions ticket while they were there,” Illinois Lottery Director Harold Mays said, according to a press release....