Georgia couple say they won $130 million lotto jackpot

<p>Georgia lottery officials said Friday no one has yet claimed the $130 lottery prize, even though a Georgia couple has said they have the winning ticket for the second-largest prize in state history.</p><p>Lottery spokesman J.B. Landroche said they have been unable to make any announcement regarding the winner of Tuesday's Mega Millions lottery. A Georgia lottery winner has 180 days from the drawing to claim the prize and must present the winning ticket to the lottery office in Atlanta.</p><p>The Washington, Ga., couple who claim to have the winning ticket, James and Margaret Jones, told "Good Morning America" on Friday that they planned to take the cash option.</p><p>The couple potentially would gain $53 million after taxes of about 31 percent. The cash option from the $130 million prize is $77 million before taxes, Landroche said.</p><p>The couple said they planned to give some of the money to their children and they would keep working.</p><p>James Jones owns an auto repair shop and his wife has a mail route. Margaret Jones said she bought the winning ticket on Tuesday, the day of the drawing.</p><p>Margaret Jones said she wants to buy a home in Daytona Beach, Fla. and James Jones previously said he wanted to build a place for the local Shriners to meet and raise money for Shriners hospitals.</p><p>"Everybody keeps saying it's going to change us, be we hope it doesn't," James Jones said on "Good Morning America."</p><p>The Mega Millions lottery began in May 2002. States participating in the game are Michigan, Georgia, Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and Washington.</p><p>The richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history was the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day 2002. The previous lottery record in Georgia was $150 million in 2003.</p><p>____</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>HASH(0x28666c4)</p>

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