Friday, May 17, 2013
Winning numbers in Saturday's drawing could net a $600 million prize.
The jackpot in Saturday's Powerball drawing has been raised to a game-record $600 million, Maryland Lottery officials announced Friday. The increase, fueled by ticket sales, is the second in as many days. The cash option for the new prize is $376.9 million. The prize, if awarded Saturday, would be the second largest jackpot prize in history, behind a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot awarded last year. One of the winning tickets nationwide was sold at a 7-Eleven in Milford Mill. The drawing will be aired live locally on WBAL-TV at 11:22 p.m. Saturday. The jackpot has "rolled" (that is, no ticket has had the full winning numbers) 13 times since April, according to lottery officials. Powerball's previous record jackpot was $587 million, won…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The prize is the third largest in American history, according to lottery officials.
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday's drawing has been raised to become what would be the third-largest jackpot prize in American history. Due to strong sales, the jackpot for Saturday was raised from $475 million to $550 million, with a $350.1 million cash option. It is the second largest prize in Powerball's history. No ticket has had the winning numbers for the past 13 drawings—since early April, according to a Maryland Lottery press release. Maryland has had two winning Powerball tickets since the Maryland Lottery joined the game in 2010. One was a Pennsylvania couple who purchased a ticket in Elkton on Christmas Eve in 2011 that won them $128.8 million. That September, an Abingdon couple won $108.8 million, according to the release. …
Monday, September 24, 2012
The 19-year-old man plans to donate some of his winnings to cancer organizations.
A 19-year-old Towson cancer survivor can thank a feeling for becoming $250,000 richer. Nick Ruth, a graduate of Archbishop Curley High School, has been playing the lottery for about a year—and sticks to a ritual of buying his Mega Millions tickets at a 7-11 near his job at 8507 Loch Raven Boulevard, according to a news release from the Maryland Lottery. Though he wasn't scheduled to work on Friday, he still visited the convenience store because it "just felt right." He is now $250,000 richer. According to the release, Ruth had purchased three tickets but didn't check them until late Saturday evening and discovered that five of his six numbers matched the winning ones. "I couldn’t believe it, so I asked my mom to look at the ticket," Ruth …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
It's last call for the lucky holder of a Mega Millions second tier winner who purchased the ticket in Timonium.
The owners of the 7-Eleven franchise on Beaver Dam Road in Timonium have all but given up hope on meeting the winner of a $250,000 Mega Millions ticket that was sold at their store. The ticket was one of five winners sold on March 30—the same day the three Marylanders won a record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions grand prize. Now the deadline to claim the second-tier prize is quickly approaching. The ticket must be claimed by Friday, Sept. 28 at 4:30 p.m. Three of the four second-tier winners in Maryland were claimed in Baltimore, Boonsboro and Bel Air, although the ticket purchased in Timonium remains at large. "It's very uncommon," Erica Palmisano, a Maryland Lottery spokeswoman said. Only three big money tickets since 1986 have gone…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
One of three $250,000 winning tickets was sold at a 7 Eleven in Timonium, off of Beaver Dam Road.
It is possible that someone in the Lutherville-Timonium or Cockeysville area is $250,00 richer. He or she might just not know it yet. Three $250,000 winning Mega Millions lottery tickets were sold in Maryland about three weeks ago. One of those tickets was sold at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Beaver Dam Road. The $250,000 prize is awarded to players who match five numbers, but not the Mega Ball. The question remains is when will he or she will cash in the winning ticket? It's "pretty rare" that someone will mistakenly not turn in the winning ticket in the allotted timeframe, according to Maryland Lottery spokeswoman Erica Palmisano. Winners have 182 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize. It took two weeks after the…
Runymede
7:56 am on Sunday, May 19, 2013
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