Mega Millions jackpot tops $1 billion after no one won $830 million top prize
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The Mega Millions jackpot has crossed the $1 billion threshold. The grand prize in Friday night's drawing will be an estimated $1.02 billion, lottery officials said, though that's certain to grow as more and more tickets are bought as that drawing approaches.
The cash option for that pot of gold would be $602.5 million.
No winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's drawing, which had a jackpot of $830 million. It would have been the nation's fourth-largest lottery prize of all time and third-largest Mega Millions prize.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.