Powerball

The winning Powerball numbers - for the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history - were drawn Saturday night: 10-13-14-22-52 and the Powerball number 11. Lottery officials were working Saturday night to determine if anyone won the jackpot, which hovered around $600 million. The prize tempted many Marylanders to buy tickets for the lottery game before the 11 p.m. drawing. "We expect there will be brisk sales both [Friday and Saturday]," said Stephen L. Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery, said Friday.

The winning Powerball numbers - for the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history - were drawn Saturday night: 10-13-14-22-52 and the Powerball number 11. Lottery officials were working Saturday night to determine if anyone won the jackpot, which hovered around $600 million. The prize tempted many Marylanders to buy tickets for the lottery game before the 11 p.m. drawing. "We expect there will be brisk sales both [Friday and Saturday]," said Stephen L. Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery, said Friday.

A lucky person holds the winning ticket for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing — the first jackpot winner sold in Maryland, according to state lottery officials. The ticket was sold at Wine World, in the 400 block of Constant Friendship Blvd. in Abingdon. That business will receive a $25,000 commission for selling the ticket, which had the numbers 3, 5, 18, 27, 54 and Power Ball 13. The winner has 182 days to claim the prize, which could be either the $108.8 million annuity — $1.2 million per year for 30 years, after taxes — or a $65 million cash option, which would result in a $43 million lump-sum payment,after taxes.

Strong Powerball ticket sales since a Wednesday night drawing with no big winner have further padded an already large jackpot, lottery officials said Thursday afternoon. It now stands at $600 million, with the cash option moving up to $376.9 million, according to the competition's website. It is now the largest Powerball jackpot in history, according to lottery officials. The next drawing will be held on Saturday. Prior to the strong Thursday sales, the lack of a winner on Wednesday night had left the pot at $475 million, with a $302.4 million cash payout.

In two minutes, it was over. A 23-room Ellicott City mansion - built by a couple who won a multimillion-dollar Powerball lottery game in 1994 - was sold at auction last night for $2.58 million, several hundred thousand less than its assessed value. Michael Fine, senior vice president for Chicago-based Sheldon Good & Co. Auctions, which handled the event at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel, would identify the high bidder only as a Maryland resident. The winning bid was $2.4 million, but $180,000 was added to satisfy the auctioneer's buyer's premium of 7.5 percent.

Nobody wants a Powerball winner in tonight's $280 million drawing more than Michael Cho. For the past week, the 21-year-old Johns Hopkins University senior has been a Powerball prisoner, virtually trapped selling lottery tickets at his family's Washington liquor store, just over the Maryland state line. "I'm like a robot," he said. "This has been nonstop. I've been working 10 hours a day." Retailers in the 21 states where the lottery is played have been inundated with people chasing the Powerball jackpot, the third-highest in U.S. lottery history.

WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Long before yesterday, they called themselves "The Lucky 13."Long before the country was seized by a fevered frenzy of lottery mania, jamming traffic in towns across the country as rabid ticket-buyers waited endlessly in line for a fantastically slim chance at instant riches, they were ponying up a few dollars a week, figuring that someday their luck would change.Thirteen men of very modest means, assembly-line workers at an industrial parts factory here just north of Columbus, got the winning ticket for the biggest lottery ever, the $295.

While Marylanders are consumed with the debate over whether to allow a sixth casino and table games like poker and blackjack, the state is quietly moving ahead with an idea that could make gambling much more pervasive: Internet lottery sales. And in contrast to the state's casino program, which has been playing catch-up with neighboring states for years, the State Lottery Agency is contemplating plans that would instantly catapult Maryland to the cutting edge of this new frontier of gambling - all without the General Assembly ever taking a direct vote on the issue.

The winning numbers for the July 5 national Powerball drawing under the District of Columbia heading of the Lottery listings were incorrectly reported in The Sun. The winning numbers are 06-14-21-23-41/Powerball 06.The Sun regrets the error.

ALL WEEK LONG, a word banged through our brains: Powerball. It made me think of Julius "Lord" Salisbury. And the word Powerball was attached to a number, $300 million, and we heard these words so constantly that I thought about William L. "Little Willie" Adams and Philip "Pacey" Silbert. And as the moment of selection came near, and millions anticipated the dawning of a new, Powerball-sponsored life of luxury, I thought about Robert "Fifi" London and Louis Comi. Powerball is a lottery game involving 22 states, officially sanctioned and supervised by governments, and played by millions of people who do not have to look over their shoulders for the cops as they place their wagers.

No one has won the Powerball jackpot since February so there is a roll over jackpot of $320 million up for grabs. The unofficial winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 17, 29, 31, 52 and 53. The Powerball was 31. Drawing results are pending. Meanwhile a winning ticket for last weekend's draw worth $1 million that was sold at the Thunderhead Bowl and Grill in Taneytown is still floating around. Lottery officials say winners have 182 days to come forward to claim their prize. Another $1 million ticket was sold last week at a Dundalk Giant and has since been turned in. iduncan@baltsun.com twitter.com/iduncan

If you bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball drawing on Saturday in Dundalk or Taneytown, you might be $1 million richer. The Maryland Lottery announced Monday that two second-tier Powerball tickets worth $1 million were bought in the state - one at the Giant on Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk and one at the Thunderhead Bowl and Grill on Old Taneytown Road in Taneytown. Neither winner has come forward yet. The winners have 182 days to claim their prizes, the lottery said. Lottery officials said nearly 26,000 people in Maryland won $4 or more through Saturday's drawing, and urged those who had purchased tickets to check to see if they are winners.

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The public fascination with who won the record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot turned to Maryland on Friday, as reports surfaced that a customer at an Upper Marlboro gas station claimed he had the coveted winning ticket. Negassi Ghebre, acting manager of the Marlboro Village Exxon, said he was manning the cash register when the man walked in Thursday afternoon to check lottery tickets he had bought. "We gave him the winning numbers, then he matched them," Ghebre said. "He realized that he's the winner.

If Harford County custodian Almerta Williams had a better pair of glasses, she might not have won $2 million from the Powerball lottery this week. Williams thought she had chosen numbers that matched the birthdays of relatives, but thanks to an old pair of reading glasses, she picked one number incorrectly, lottery officials said Wednesday. The error proved fortuitous - the numbers she picked made her a second-place winner in this week's drawing, which featured a $587.5 million jackpot.

Charrlene Cebrianwarned her boss at Steve's Lunch in Cross Street Market on Wednesday that she might not come into work for her next shift. The Powerball player was just one of millions who hoped the 11 p.m. drawing would bring them the $588 million jackpot. Though the odds of winning were astronomical - one in more than 175 million - the money convinced many to join in. The hefty jackpot jumped almost $200 million Wednesday with the increase in sales as more players bought the small sheets of paper bearing what they hoped would be the winning numbers, which turned out to be 05 16 22 23 29 with a Powerball of 06. Winning tickets were purchased in Arizona and Missouri, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.

With the Big Game jackpot in nine digits, fantasies of winning can overshadow the overwhelming 80 million-to-one odds against. Maybe all you need is a dollar and a dream, but if somehow you win, you'd better watch out, a mega-jackpot expert says. "Get your estates in order; spend only your income; and learn how to say, `No.'" This advice comes from attorney Laurence Sturtz, the Columbus, Ohio, attorney who managed post-lottery details for 13 Ohio machinists who hit the biggest Powerball jackpot to date - more than $295 million - in July 1998.

Teen killed by Amtrak train identified as Elkton-area boy A boy killed Sunday when he was struck by an Amtrak Acela train in Cecil County has been identified as a 13-year-old from the Elkton area. Maryland State Police and county officials said Shawn Luther Kelly was struck as he crossed railroad tracks near his home. The teen and two friends were returning to their homes after playing in a nearby wooded area. Vernae Graham, an Amtrak spokeswoman, said the southbound Boston-to-Washington train with 181 passengers might have been moving as fast as 130 mph shortly before 5 p.m. when it struck the boy about four miles west of Elkton.

Nobody won Saturday's $325 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night, setting up a $425 million-plus jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing that has even casual lottery players ready to take the plunge. "I only play when it gets big," Linthicum's Charlie Morlock said Sunday afternoon, hot off plunking down $20 for Powerball tickets at his local Royal Farms store. This was, he noted, the first time he'd played the lottery this year. Lottery officials said Wednesday's drawing could soar beyond $425 million, depending on how many people cough up the $2 necessary to play.

Laurel Park Bold Affair goes coast to coast in Geisha Stakes Charles Reed and Mike Zanella 's Bold Affair went to the lead, galloped along within herself and came home a driving winner in the Thanksgiving feature at Laurel Park, the $100,000 Geisha Stakes. Racing one mile under Abel Castellano , Bold Affair completed the distance in 1 minute, 38.81 seconds over the fast main track and finished four lengths ahead of Catch a Thief, who had to chase the winner throughout.