EVER GIVEN AWAY IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND. >> TONIGHT WE HAVE ANOTHER LIFE-CHANGING JACKPOT. REPORTER: AS THE NUMBERS WERE DRAWN WEDNESDAY NIGHT, THE CONEY MARKET IN THE TINY WESTERN MARYLAND TOWN OF LONACONING WAS ABOUT TO BE PUT ON THE NATIONAL STAGE. THE STORE’S MANAGER GOT THE CALL AROUND 7:00 THURSDAY MORNING AND IMMEDIATELY TOLD THE OWNER. >> WHEN I WAS GOING BACK I SAID IT TO THEM. THE LOTTERY WANTS TO TALK TO YOU AND I THINK WE SOLD THE BIG WINNER. REPORTER: OWNER RICHARD RAVENSCROFT COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. >> I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR SOMEBODY. WE DO NOT KNOW WHO YET. REPORTER: RAVENSCROFT HAS OWNED THE STORE FOR ABOUT SIX YEARS AND THE BIGGEST LOTTERY PRIZE THEY EVER HAD WAS A SCRATCH-OFF FOR $150,000. AS THE WINNING MERCHANT, HE GETS $100,000, WHICH HE PLANS ON SHARING. >> WE ARE GOING TO FIGURE THE TAXES AND THEN THE EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO GET SOME OF IT. REPORTER: AS CUSTOMERS WALKED IN THROUGHOUT THE MORNING, EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO WON, INCLUDING JAQUELINE GATES WHO THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE HER. >> DID YOU THINK IT WAS YOU? >> I SAID IT COULD HAVE BEEN. I AM GOING TO GO FIND THAT STORY. REPORTER: WE WERE ABLE TO REACH LONACONING MAYOR JOHN COBURN OVER THE PHONE, WHO TOLD US THE WINNERS ARE A LOCAL COUPLE WHO’VE LIVED IN THE TOWN OF 1200 FOR A LONG TIME BUT WISH TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS STILL QUITE AN EVENT FOR A TOWN ONLY KNOWN AS THE HOME OF HALL OF FAME PITCHER LEFTY GROVE, NOW HOME TO THE LARGEST MARYLA LOTTERY WINNER IN HISTORY. >> AND THIS WEEK I HUNG UP TWO BIG OLD SIGNS AT THE MONEY AND TOLD HIM WE ARE GOING TO GET MONEY CURED THIS WEEK BECAUSE THE LOTTERY IT WAS SO HIGH AND WE DID. REPORTER: MARYLAND KEEPS ITS WINNING WAYS JUST ON THE ROAD FROM HERE IN HAGERSTOWN. THEY SOLD A SECOND TIER TICKET WORTH $2 MILLION. THE POWERBALL JACKPOT OF $731.1 MILLION IS THE FOURTH-LARGEST IN POWERBALL HISTOR
2 Mega Millions tickets win $2 million prizes, several others win $1 million each
Updated: 9:02 PM EST Jan 23, 2021
Above video: $731.1 million Powerball jackpot-winning ticket sold in Western MarylandA $2 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at a North Carolina convenience store.NC Education Lottery says the winning ticket was sold in Brunswick County at the Minuteman Food Mart on Mercantile Drive in Leland, WLOS-TV reported."The $3 Megaplier ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, 4-26-42-50-60, to beat odds of 1 in 12.6 million and won a $1,000,000 prize," NC Education Lottery said in a statement. "The prize was doubled to $2,000,000 when the 2X Megaplier was drawn."Friday's $1 billion drawing was the second-largest jackpot in the history of Mega Millions. Someone in Michigan bought the winning ticket for the jackpot.A person in Virginia matched all five numbers along with the Megaplier for another $2 million win, and eight other people won $1 million, playing in Florida (two), Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York (two) and Pennsylvania, according to Mega Millions.NC Education Lottery says the odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million. Hearst TV contributed.
Above video: $731.1 million Powerball jackpot-winning ticket sold in Western Maryland
A $2 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at a North Carolina convenience store.
NC Education Lottery says the winning ticket was sold in Brunswick County at the Minuteman Food Mart on Mercantile Drive in Leland, WLOS-TV reported.
"The $3 Megaplier ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, 4-26-42-50-60, to beat odds of 1 in 12.6 million and won a $1,000,000 prize," NC Education Lottery said in a statement. "The prize was doubled to $2,000,000 when the 2X Megaplier was drawn."
Friday's $1 billion drawing was the second-largest jackpot in the history of Mega Millions. Someone in Michigan bought the winning ticket for the jackpot.
A person in Virginia matched all five numbers along with the Megaplier for another $2 million win, and eight other people won $1 million, playing in Florida (two), Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York (two) and Pennsylvania, according to Mega Millions.
NC Education Lottery says the odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.
Hearst TV contributed.
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