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.
Generally, DCist strives to provide the most enlightened swath of life in our nation’s capital that we can muster. But every once in a while, a story comes along that makes us blurt out in surprise: What the actual fuck?
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.
I’ve long wondered why anyone would buy tickets for D.C.’s Mega Millions lottery. The odds of winning are virtually identical to the multi-state Powerball, but the jackpots are almost always much smaller. That’s changed lately: Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is now set to feature a jackpot of $224 million, which is the largest in the history of the D.C. Lottery. If you take it all in cash, the estimated jackpot would still be $138.1…
Photo by mofo Howdy, District Of! Today, the Washington Post notes a story about District schools czar Michelle Rhee, who told a national trade magazine that some of the hundreds of teachers fired in October budget reductions had sexually and physically abused their students. Now, this might sound like an odd justification for budget reductions. One would think that any time a teacher molests a child, that teacher’s employment is immediately jeopardized. But the problems…
>> “Monument Realty filed a federal lawsuit today against Metro to stop the sale of the transit agency’s land near the Washington Nationals’ new baseball stadium, escalating a dispute that threatens to disrupt the opening of the ballpark next spring.” [WaPo] >> Check your old Mega Millions tickets. [WJLA] >> “Well, then you can’t have the apples.” [why.i.hate.dc] >> Carroll Co. school lockdown lifted, two males being questioned after student threatened to ‘shoot up’…
