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The yet unidentified $10 million winner in the el Gordo lottery drawing bought the winning ticket in Queen Anne's County -- within 20 minutes of the cutoff time for sales Saturday night."

Visitors to Annapolis' Banneker-Douglass Museum last week may have been confused by a sign posted on the museum door. It announced that the institution would be closed through Nov. 12, and gave no explanation.The sign should have specified the museum is temporarily closed while staff members are putting up the next exhibit, said Carroll Hynson Jr., chairman of the state-appointed commission that oversees the museum on Franklin Street in the city's historic district.The exhibit -- "In His Words: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" -- will run from Saturday through March 11, said Hynson, who heads the Commission on African-American History and Culture.

On January , 2006, HOWARD CHARLES MCDOWELL, beloved husband of the late Ruth H. Mc Dowell (nee Enos), father of Beverly Hynson and husband Bernard Jr., brother of Melvin Mc Dowell and wife Gertrude, grandfather of Christopher and Steven Hynson and Frank and David Schwartz, also survived by loving step-daughter Janet Schwartz. Family will receive friends at the STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue (1 mile west of beltway exit 14) on Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Ascension Catholic Church, on Tuesday at 10 A.M. Interment in Meadowridge Memorial PArk.

Maybe you could buy yourself an island where the sun always shines. Lots of people are thinking of what they would do with $15 million. That's what one winner of tonight's Lotto jackpot would take home -- before taxes, payable over 20 years.And the jackpot could swell to a record amount if no one matches the six numbers drawn tonight, lottery officials say."There's a great possibility of it exceeding that record of $21 million," said Carroll H. Hynson Jr., spokesman for the Maryland Lottery Agency.

Lucky seven hit it big yesterday with the Maryland Lottery's afternoon Pick 3 number of 777.It was the seventh time that 777 has been drawn since the Pick 3 game started in 1976, said deputy lottery director Carroll H. Hynson Jr.Because so many people bet 777, there was an unusually high payout of $969,000 for 3,907 winners. That represents 484 percent of the money actually bet. The total falls far short of the record for a Pick 3 payout, which was $6 million when 222 hit in June 1990.Yesterday's beneficiaries are likely lottery loyalists who regularly play the same three numbers, Mr. Hynson said.

A father and a son drowned near Sandy Point State Park yesterday after their 15-foot motorboat -- carrying more weight than it could handle safely -- sank in the Chesapeake Bay during a holiday fishing trip, Maryland Natural Resources Police reported.The victims -- Sidney Allen Hynson Sr., 70, of Arnold and his son, David Lee Hynson, 44, of Tifton, Ga. -- and two other family members in the boat did not wear life jackets, police said.The elder Mr. Hynson was pulled from the water by nearby boaters, but resuscitation efforts by Coast Guard officers were unsuccessful.

Charles Scones has not visited Thomas Point Lighthouse in years, but his memory must be pretty good. The retired auto mechanic's seven miniatures of the historic building, made from poster board, are exact replicas.The 84-year-old Pasadena resident has built more than 300 miniatures of boats, churches, lighthouses and stores since renewing his old hobby three years ago."I just have a knack for proportions," said Scones, who does not follow a pattern. The retired auto mechanic simply looks at pictures, often from calendars or magazines, to create his structures.

Henry Armitt Brown Dunning Jr., retired vice president of Hynson, Westcott and Dunning and a champion archer, died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 90 and lived at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. Mr. Dunning, a former longtime resident of Riderwood who was known as Brown, headed the chemistry department of Hynson, Westcott and Dunning, a former Baltimore pharmaceutical manufacturer, from 1934 until he retired in 1972. His father, Henry Armitt Brown Dunning Sr., was one of the founders and later chairman of the board of the company, which was established in 1889 and moved in 1922 to its landmark headquarters building at the southeast corner of Charles and Chase streets, near the Belvedere Hotel.

More than 8 million dreams were dashed this weekend.That's how many tickets were sold for Saturday's $20 million Lotto drawing -- 8,179,625, to be exact.There was just one winner, lottery officials said yesterday -- believed to be someone in Anne Arundel County.Today, the losers will be waiting in awe and extreme envy to find out who owns that ticket to lifelong prosperity. The winner will get the largest award in the game's eight-year history -- $1 million a year before taxes for 20 years -- and one of the largest lottery prizes for a single ticket in the nation.