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Powerball Drawing Creates Two Newly Minted Maryland Millionaires Powerball Drawing Creates Two Newly Minted Maryland Millionaires
Powerball Drawing Creates Two Newly Minted Maryland Millionaires Winner, winners.  Powerball tickets worth $1 million were sold to a pair of fortuitous Maryland Lottery players the day after two others cashed in on a seven-figure "Mega Millions" prize. While the $1.08 billion jackpot was won across the country in California, the Wednesday, July 19 drawing did produce two Maryland tickets worth $1 million and delivered several other big winners. Winning numbers for the July 19 drawing were: 07-10-11-13-24 with a Powerball of 24. The five Maryland Powerball winners worth at least $50,000 were sold at:  $1 million - River Hill Sunoco on S…

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Winning $500K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store Winning $500K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store
Winning $500K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store One lucky Maryland Lottery player is hanging on to a Powerball ticket worth $500,000 and may not even know it. There was a winning "Double Play" ticket sold for Monday's drawing at Westway Liquors on Edmondson Avenue in Catonsville, Lottery officials announced. For the drawing on Monday, July 17, the winning numbers were: 09-37-38-62-62 with a Powerball of 23. "Double Play" is a second drawing that takes place about 30 minutes after the Powerball drawing, according to Maryland Lottery. Players can add "Double Play" to their tickets for an additional $1.  Adding the Double Play option…

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Check Your Tickets: $50K Powerball Winner Sold At Maryland Sheetz Check Your Tickets: $50K Powerball Winner Sold At Maryland Sheetz
Check Your Tickets: $50K Powerball Winner Sold At Maryland Sheetz One lucky Maryland Lottery player may have $50,000 burning a hole in their pocket and might have no idea about it. A winning $50,000 “Powerball” ticket was sold for the drawing on Monday, July 3 at an area Sheetz gas station, though it remains unclaimed days later, according to Lottery officials. The winning numbers were: 15-37-50-55-69 with a Powerball of 09. Officials said the winning third-tier “Double Play” ticket was sold at Sheets on Eastern Boulevard North in Hagerstown. “Double Play” is a second drawing that takes place about 30 minutes after the initial Powerball drawi…

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Miscalculating Accountant From DC Shocked By $50K Maryland Lottery Windfall Miscalculating Accountant From DC Shocked By $50K Maryland Lottery Windfall
Miscalculating Accountant From DC Shocked By $50K Maryland Lottery Windfall And they say accountants are supposed to be good with numbers. A Washington, DC man is jumping for joy after celebrating a third-tier “Powerball” prize after playing on a whim while visiting Maryland earlier this month, though it took him a minute to realize he won five figures, not $100. Maryland Lottery officials say that the accountant enjoys playing “Mega Millions” and “Powerball” but this time, he was unaware that he had won such a momentous prize until a week later. Last week, the accountant - who is no stranger to dealing with money - stopped of at Giant on East West Highway in Sil…

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Maryland Lottery Player Wins $50K On Eve Of 63rd Birthday Maryland Lottery Player Wins $50K On Eve Of 63rd Birthday
Maryland Lottery Player Wins $50K On Eve Of 63rd Birthday The Maryland Lottery gave one lucky player an impressive 63rd birthday present this week. There have been some sleepless nights for Baltimore native Constance Benny, who still can’t believe her luck after cashing in on a $50,000 top prize on a “Big Money” scratch-off ticket. The winning ticket was sold at Giant on York Road in Timonium, where the Lottery winner went to pick up dinner and cat food earlier this week.  After shopping, she said she had an extra $5 burning a whole in her pocket, and she instead turned that into $50,000. Initially, she even forgot about the ticket until s…

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by Zak Failla
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Check Your Tickets: Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Grocery Store Check Your Tickets: Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Grocery Store
Check Your Tickets: Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Grocery Store A Maryland Lottery player woke up with a little extra pep in their step on Thursday and may not know why. A winning third-tier prize winning $50,000 Powerball ticket was sold at Giant on East West Highway in Silver Spring for the drawing on Wednesday, May 3. The winning numbers were 21-26-30-45-47 with a Powerball of 23 and the "Power Play multiplier" was 3.  So far in 2023, there has been a single one million dollar winning "Powerball" tickets sold, as well as 33 other tickets worth between $50,000 and $150,000. Powerball drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur…

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Check Your Tickets: Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold At MD Convenience Store Check Your Tickets: Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold At MD Convenience Store
Check Your Tickets: Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold At MD Convenience Store One lucky lotto player in Maryland could be in a new tax bracket and doesn’t even know it. A $1 million Powerball ticket was sold at a Frederick County gas station over the weekend and is burning a hole in one player's pocket as the seven-figure prize remains unclaimed days after the drawing on Saturday, April 8. The winning numbers were 11-22-24-51-60 with a Power Ball of 18. Officials say that the winning million dollar ticket was sold on the day of the drawing at Sheetz on Burkittsville Road in Knoxville and remains unclaimed as of Tuesday, April 11.  Powerball drawings are held …

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Fate Leads To 78-Year-Old Germantown Grandmother Winning $50K Playing Powerball Fate Leads To 78-Year-Old Germantown Grandmother Winning $50K Playing Powerball
Fate Leads To 78-Year-Old Germantown Grandmother Winning $50K Playing Powerball A 78-year-old woman finally got her chance in the winner's circle at the Maryland Lottery last week, officials say. The grandmother typically picks her own numbers when she plays the Powerball and Mega Millions games, but was given a winning quick-pick ticket during her Sunday, Feb. 26 Wegmans visit, according to Maryland Lottery officials. The self-serve vending machine would not let the lucky lady pick her own numbers, which ultimately led to the grandmother with a $50,000 third-tier prize in the Monday, Feb. 27 Powerball drawing. However, it wasn't until the day after the drawing that t…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Paramedic 'Literally Froze' After $1M Maryland Lottery 'Powerball' Win Paramedic 'Literally Froze' After $1M Maryland Lottery 'Powerball' Win
Paramedic 'Literally Froze' After $1M Maryland Lottery 'Powerball' Win A paramedic from Washington, DC nearly needed medical assistance of her own when she realized that she became Maryland’s newest millionaire on a winning “Powerball” ticket that was sold during the height of the $2 million jackpot in early November. Family birth dates proved to be fortuitous for the paramedic, who credits her loved ones for helping her hit enough winning numbers to cash in a seven-figure payday from the Wednesday, Nov. 2 drawing. The paramedic - who chose not to disclose a name - said that she hadn't run the winning ticket through a scanner at a Lottery retailer all month -…

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Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold To Lucky Maryland Lottery Player Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold To Lucky Maryland Lottery Player
Winning $1M Powerball Ticket Sold To Lucky Maryland Lottery Player It wasn’t a $2 billion windfall, but some Maryland Lottery players are still feeling lucky after cashing in big in the latest Powerball drawing, including a seven-figure prize on a ticket sold in Catonsville. Powerball players had to wait overnight to get their results, but it was worth it for some in Maryland, where there were nine prizes of at least $50,000 on tickets sold in Maryland, including a $1 million second-tier winner. In California, one person is holding on to a ticket worth the largest single jackpot prize in lottery history after it swelled to $2.04 billion, with a cash valu…

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Numbers For Historic $2 Billion Powerball Drawn: Here's Where People Won Big Numbers For Historic $2 Billion Powerball Drawn: Here's Where People Won Big
Numbers For Historic $2 Billion Powerball Drawn: Here's Where People Won Big The winning numbers for a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball Jackpot have been drawn, lottery officials report. The winning numbers were white balls 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and red Powerball 10. The Power Play multiplier was 2X. The #Powerball numbers for Monday's drawing were 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56 with Powerball 10Check your tickets now at 👉 https://t.co/v9q3NiyjFE pic.twitter.com/raNqEugqQD — Powerball USA (@PowerballUSA) November 8, 2022 The drawing was held just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8 after a delay from one participating lottery needing more time to process its sales and …

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Three $1M Powerball Tickets In DMV Area; New Jackpot Swells Up To $1.5B Three $1M Powerball Tickets In DMV Area; New Jackpot Swells Up To $1.5B
Three $1M Powerball Tickets In DMV Area; New Jackpot Swells Up To $1.5B Nobody claimed the top $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot, but three from the DMV area are feeling lucky after winning seven-figure prizes in Wednesday’s drawing. In Maryland, lottery officials say that two $1 million winning tickets were sold, one at the Cross Keys Exxon on Falls Road in Baltimore City and in Calvert County at Giant on Solomons Island Road in Frederick. A Fairfax County lottery player in Virginia also is in possession of a winning $1 million Powerball ticket that was purchased at 7-Eleven on Soapstone Drive in Reston. The winning numbers on Wednesday, Nov. 2 were: 02-11-22-35…

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