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Uber Eats driver wins $250,000 between food deliveriesNews Story
I don't want to do Uber Eats right now! By Kate Northrop A food delivery driver was sitting in her car between orders when she found out she hit the $250,000 top prize on a scratch-off lottery ticket from the Maryland Lottery. An Uber Eats driver, who opted to be identified only as Grateful Mom, regularly plays instant games when waiting between food orders. On one night just like any other, she finally took home a $250,000 top prize. Man, I was sitting in my car going crazy! t
Jul 18, 2021, 1:46 pm - Lottery News

Lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania wins $516 million Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Updated annuity and cash jackpot final tallies, and location winning ticket was sold By Todd Northrop After a run of 26 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 27th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $516 million winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. The winner will now have to choose between being paid $516 million in 30 annually-increasing payments over 29 years or the lump-sum cash value
May 22, 2021, 9:16 am - Lottery News

North Carolina Lottery adds Cash 5 Double Play featureNews Story
Players try out new feature for a second chance to win By Kate Northrop Sunday marked the release of the North Carolina Lottery's Cash 5 Double Play add-on feature, which gives players the chance to win a prize twice in one night for an extra $1 per play. Opting in for the Double Play feature will have the player's numbers for the original Cash 5 drawing entered for a second drawing that takes place immediately after. The prizes for the original Cash 5 drawing and the Double Play dra
Apr 26, 2021, 4:08 pm - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery ticket sales temporarily unavailableNews Story
Lottery is halting ticket purchases during morning hours tomorrow By Kate Northrop The New Jersey Lottery today announced that ticket sales for all draw games will be temporarily suspended Friday, Feb. 26. The Lottery will be applying an upgrade to its wagering system used for purchasing draw-based Lottery games. Players will not be able to buy tickets for those games between 12:01 am and approximately 10:00 am Friday. However, midday drawings for Pick 3 and Pick 4 will not be interr
Feb 25, 2021, 11:57 am - Lottery News

One Michigan lottery ticket wins $1 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Updated annuity and cash jackpot final tallies By Todd Northrop After a record run of 36 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 37th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.05 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Michigan matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the third time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the second time a single ticket won $1 billion or more. The public has been electrified the co
Jan 23, 2021, 8:04 am - Lottery News

MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT $1 BILLION FOR TONIGHT'S DRAWINGNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery officials have just announced that the jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions drawing has been raised to $1 billion, marking just the third time in history that a lottery jackpot has reached that monumental level. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown since Sep. 18 and has rolled a record 36 times, starting at $20 million. The lump-sum cash option now stands at $739.6 million ranking as the third-largest cash option of all time. Mega Millions offers two jackpot pa
Jan 22, 2021, 12:09 pm - Lottery News

$731.1 million Powerball lottery jackpot won by single ticket sold in MarylandNews Story
Updated with retailer that sold winning ticket By Todd Northrop One Powerball lottery ticket sold in Maryland won the sixth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history on Wednesday night. The lucky numbers for the $731.1 million jackpot were 40, 53, 60, 68, and 69, with Powerball number 22. The Power Play multiplier was 3. The top prize was adjusted upwards from the initial estimate of $730 million after all proceeds were counted Wednesday night. The lump sum payout for the single winning
Jan 21, 2021, 8:09 am - Lottery News

$970 MILLION: Mega lottery jackpot set for FridayNews Story
3rd largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen Cash value is three-quarters of a billion dollars By Todd Northrop The most commonly-heard phrase this week just might be, Did you get Mega Millions tickets? That's because nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing Tuesday night, sending the Friday jackpot to heights only seen once before in the game's history. By Friday, the game is likely to sport a jackpot of greater than $1 billion. Friday's Mega Millions j
Jan 20, 2021, 7:53 am - Lottery News

$730 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot skyrocketsNews Story
6th-largest US jackpot ever; 4th-largest cash value ever By Todd Northrop There are going to be a lot of lottery tickets sold this week. For the first time ever, both the Powerball and Mega Millions multi-state lottery jackpots are simultaneously above $700 million, creating a total of $1.58 billion in jackpot prize money combined. It's also the first time both games concurrently offered a cash option of more then $500 million. This unique record comes after nobody won the top pri
Jan 17, 2021, 8:28 am - Lottery News

$850 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot to spark ticket-buying frenzyNews Story
3rd-largest lottery jackpot of all time By Todd Northrop Lottery players across the United States will be lining up at lottery retailers for their chance to win Tuesday's massive $850 million Mega Millions jackpot, after nobody won Friday's $750 million grand prize. The cash value stands at a staggering $628.2 million. You read that correctly: nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in cash! Mega Millions has now gone an unprecedented 35 drawings without a jackpot winner the most
Jan 16, 2021, 9:22 am - Lottery News