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$1M Mega Millions ticket purchased in Dumfries area
A Mega Millions lottery ticket purchased off Dumfries Road in Prince William County, Virginia, is worth $1 million, according to Virginia Lottery officials.
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Growing number of states move to shield lottery winners
A growing number of states are moving to allow the winners of big lottery jackpots to stay anonymous as privacy concerns are increasingly trumping lottery groups’ wishes to publicize winners to boost sales and show that the games are fair.
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March was the Virginia Lottery’s third-best month for sales
The Daily Progress in Charlottesville reported Thursday that lottery sales totaled more than $221 million for the month. That total includes more than $117 million in sales of scratch-off tickets.
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Winning $768M Powerball ticket sold in Wisconsin
A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in the Wednesday night Powerball drawing to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. Due to strong ticket sales, the jackpot climbed to an estimated $768.4 million at the time of the drawing with a cash option of $477 million.
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Unclaimed $1.5B jackpot mystery: Winner died? Ticket lost?
Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city’s billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October? Whoever won the second largest lottery in U.S. history has until 5 p.m. on April 19 to claim the jackpot.
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My Take: Jamaican lotto winners really know how to dress things up
On My Take, Clinton Yates comments on the lengths Jamaican lottery winners will go to to conceal their identities.
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Man arrested for allegedly stealing roommate’s $10 million lottery ticket: Police
A California man who tried to scam his way into hitting the jackpot has been arrested instead.
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New Year’s Day jackpot is 8th largest in Mega Millions history
This will be the fifth time the jackpot has been drawn on the first day of a new year and has so far only been won once on that day, in 2008.
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Mega Millions jackpot grows to $415 million; next drawing set for New Year’s Day
As 2018 comes to a close, there have been five Mega Millions jackpots won this year. In October, a ticket was sold in South Carolina, worth a record prize of $1.537 billion, the biggest in Mega Millions history. That ticket holder, however, has not come forward to claim the celebrated prize.
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NICU nurses donate $10K Mega Millions winnings to colleagues in need
The nurses, who all work in the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Children’s Hospital St. Louis in Missouri, split their $7,200 post-taxes earnings between a nurse who recently lost her teenage son to suicide and a neonatologist whose husband is battling cancer.
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Iowa, New York home to winning $688M Powerball tickets
Powerball officials say tickets purchased in Iowa and New York match all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing. The jackpot is the fourth-largest in U.S. history.
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No big Powerball winner; jackpot now up to $750 million
No one has won the Powerball jackpot since Aug. 11, when a man from Staten Island, New York, won $245.6 million.
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My Take: You didn’t get rich for free. Get over it
On My Take, Clinton Yates says, you have a better chance being president than winning the Mega Million’s jackpot. Here are other things that have a better chance of happening.
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Not mega-millionaires but DC, Va. still see $1M winners
They may not have won the record-breaking $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot, but some people in the D.C. area can dry their tears with a much bigger bank account.
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Powerball and Mega Millions combined jackpot hits $2 billion after there were no winners Saturday
After nobody won Saturday’s Powerball top prize, the potential jackpot has swelled to an even more monstrous amount.
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