2nd Mega Millions winner comes forward

A California truck driver has come forward to claim half of the $648 million prize in last month's Mega Millions jackpot, California Lottery officials said. 

Steve Tran bought the winning ticket for the Dec. 17 drawing at Jennifer's Gift Shop in San Jose, and left it with other tickets he picked up on his route as a delivery driver, officials said Friday. He came forward Thursday to claim the prize -- half of the second-richest lottery jackpot in U.S. history -- but did not speak with reporters, CNN said. Officials said Trans has 60 days to decide whether to get the money in annuities over 30 years or take a lump-sum -- $173.8 million before taxes -- CNN reported. Ira Curry, 56, of Georgia, held the other winning ticket in the Dec. jackpot, and took the lump-sum option, worth about $120 million after federal and state taxes. 

Lottery officials said Tran told them he didn't check the numbers on his winning ticket until he returned with his family from a vacation. "I woke up in the middle of the night. I remembered, 'I think I went to San Jose,'" he said. 

The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20 and 39, with a Mega ball of 7. Mega Millions is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.