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The person bought a lottery ticket at a Giant grocery store in Sterling that matched the first five numbers of Tuesday’s $61 million Mega Millions drawing.

While someone in Massachusetts made history with a $758.7 million Powerball jackpot last night, two people bought $1 million tickets in Maryland and Virginia.

Also, lottery winners should call a financial advisor and make wise investments.

James Brown, a husband and father of three daughters in college, is about to lose a job he’s had for 27 years at Alexandria’s GenOn Power plant on October 12…But here’s a fortuitous twist to this unlucky tale: He won $102,500 in the DC-5 Lottery last week.

Our long regional nightmare about that winning ticket for a share of a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot is finally over. The real winners came forward, and Mirlande Wilson is not one of them.

Mirlande Wilson, the Baltimore woman who claims she purchased one of three winning tickets in last week’s $656 million Mega Millions drawing, now says she can’t even find the lucky slip of paper.

Mirlande Wilson, the Baltimore woman who claims she is one of three winners in last week’s $656 million Mega Millions drawing, won’t show anyone the winning ticket, nor has anyone claimed the prize yet.

A Baltimore-area woman who purchased one of the winning tickets in last week’s $656 million Mega Millions jackpot says it’s all hers, even though her coworkers at McDonald’s say it was a group ticket.

Like everywhere else where the Mega Millions game is played, D.C. has a case of lottery fever ahead of tonight’s drawing for a record-busting $540 million jackpot.