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Second-Chance Queen Strikes Again: Maryland Woman’s $100K Payday Stuns Courthouse Coworkers Second-Chance Queen Strikes Again: Maryland Woman’s $100K Payday Stuns Courthouse Coworkers
Second-Chance Queen Strikes Again: Maryland Woman’s $100K Payday Stuns Courthouse Coworkers A Glen Burnie courthouse employee had her co-workers doing a double take when her screams of excitement rang through the office, courtesy of a $100,000 Maryland Lottery win. Shari Hunt-Caldwell is no stranger to second-chance Lottery drawings, but this holiday season brought a surprise too big to keep quiet after entering her non-winning tickets into the My Lottery Rewards program hoping or a festive payoff.  Her shock came last month, when a Lottery representative called with the big news of her six-figure jackpot.  "I started screaming at work," Hunt-Caldwell recalled. "It was …

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Maryland Woman Wins $100K Lottery Prize—Her Second Big Win In Two Months Maryland Woman Wins $100K Lottery Prize—Her Second Big Win In Two Months
Maryland Woman Wins $100K Lottery Prize—Her Second Big Win In Two Months Lightning has struck twice for a Baltimore City woman who just scored her second big Maryland Lottery scratch-off win in as many months, officials announced. The lucky player claimed a $100,000 top prize on the $100,000 Crossword scratch-off after purchasing five $10 tickets at Harford Citgo on Harford Road.  This win comes hot on the heels of a $50,000 prize she won last month on a Ca$h Plu$ scratch-off, bringing her total to an incredible $150,000 in just two months. Her secret to success? Strategy.  She uses the Maryland Lottery app to identify games with top prizes still ava…

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Winning $1M Lottery Ticket Sold To Maryland Man Who 'Just Had A Hunch' Winning $1M Lottery Ticket Sold To Maryland Man Who 'Just Had A Hunch'
Winning $1M Lottery Ticket Sold To Maryland Man Who 'Just Had A Hunch' An otherwise mundane day turned into a memorable one for a Maryland man who had a hunch, made a pit stop at an area liquor store, and picked up a winning $1 million scratcher. The man told Lottery officials in Baltimore that he was driving past Severn Liquors in the 8200 block of WB&A Road in Severn when he had a hankering to try his luck on a scratch-off ticket. "I just had a hunch," he mused. That urge turned out to be fortuitous for the Anne Arundel County man, who purchased a $20 Millionaire's Club ticket, because he "liked the look of the game" and because it was relatively n…

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Virginia Man Tests Luck, Wins $50K 'Pick 5' Prize On Ticket Sold In Maryland Virginia Man Tests Luck, Wins $50K 'Pick 5' Prize On Ticket Sold In Maryland
Virginia Man Tests Luck, Wins $50K 'Pick 5' Prize On Ticket Sold In Maryland A last-minute stop on a trip home from Maryland landed a Virginia man a five-figure Lottery prize. "I almost didn't buy it," the Accomack County resident mused to Lottery officials while claiming a $50,000 Pick 5 ticket in Baltimore in his return back across state lanes to celebrate his biggest win to date. According to the winner, the "mistake ticket" ended a streak of bad luck. The lucky Lottery player says he was returning to his Eastern Shore home from a Labor Day Weekend visit to Washington, DC, when he decided to stop at River Market in Pocomoke City, one of the last locations b…

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Real Estate
40-Foot Pool Among Selling Points For Potomac Home That Sold Over Asking Price For $1.86M 40-Foot Pool Among Selling Points For Potomac Home That Sold Over Asking Price For $1.86M
40-Foot Pool Among Selling Points For Potomac Home That Sold Over Asking Price For $1.86M Hard work paid off for a team of realtors who overhauled a Maryland home, selling for more than $60,000 over the asking price.  A buyer just had to have a Potomac home at along 9117 Potomac Station Lane, sitting on an unusually large parcel of land for the neighborhood that sold for $1.86 million, above the $1.799 million listing price,  The five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom custom-built 6,350-square-foot home had been listed with Robert Hryniewicki, Adam Rackliffe, Christopher Leary, and Micah Smith of HRL Partners of Washington Fine Properties. According to the realtors, the…

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