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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | May 11, 2005
NEW YORK - Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: How could 110 players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right? That made them all second-prize winners and, given the number of tickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there should have been only four or five. But from state after state they kept coming in, the 1-in-3-million combination of 22, 28, 32, 33, 39. It took some time before the officials had the answer: The players got their numbers in fortune cookies, and all the cookies came from the same factory in Long Island City, Queens.
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By From staff reports | March 13, 2002
In Baltimore County It's no joke: Towson couple win $2.8 million TOWSON - When the director and an entourage from the Maryland Lottery showed up at Gwen Vaughan's house in Towson yesterday morning, everyone knew she had won $2.8 million. Everyone but her, that is. Husband Robert, 63, had kept the news a secret after receiving a telephone call from the lottery Monday. He told Gwen, 61, they had won $1,500 because their subscription ticket matched five out of six numbers in Saturday's Lotto drawing.
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By Nancy A. Youssef and Nancy A. Youssef,SUN STAFF | February 9, 1999
Six people have died in Howard County motor vehicle accidents this year, five more than at the same point last year.The two latest fatal accidents occurred over the weekend: at 10: 42 p.m. Saturday at U.S. 40 and Normandy Woods Drive in Ellicott City, and at 3: 42 p.m. Sunday at Route 175 and Interstate 95 in Jessup.A man driving a 1996 Freightliner tractor east on Route 175 and nearing I-95 reportedly ran a red light and struck a 1990 Mercury on the driver's side as it was entering Route 175 from an I-95 exit ramp, police said.
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By David Michael Ettlin and David Michael Ettlin,Sun Staff Writer | May 12, 1994
Oh, for the gift of prophecy yesterday, to be able to close your eyes and have these numbers come to mind: 11, 26, 30, 32, 41, 48.Instead, thousands of Marylanders had to rely on hunches, birthday combinations or in most cases the numbers randomly chosen by the Maryland Lottery's computer system as they hoped to win an $18 million Lotto jackpot -- third largest in the game's 11-year history.The big prize -- actually an annuity that would provide a single winner a before-tax payment of $900,000 a year for the next 20 years -- has been growing since March 19, when the Lotto game last had a ticket matching all six numbers.
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By Frank Langfitt and Frank Langfitt,Staff Writer | January 16, 1993
If you're thinking about strolling across the street today to pick up a Maryland Lottery ticket at the local gas station, be careful. You're more likely to get killed by a car than win the jackpot.And watch out next week. It's more likely a bolt of lightning would come crashing down on your head than you'd win a million dollars.In short, the odds stink.That's the message mathematician Alan F. Karr passed on to prospective lottery players yesterday at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Howard County.
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By New York Times News Service | February 25, 1992
RICHMOND, Va. -- There is a dream common among regular lottery players: to wait until the jackpot reaches an astronomical sum and then to buy every possible number, guaranteeing a winner.In Virginia this month, one investment group came tantalizingly close to cornering the market on all possible combinations of six numbers from 1 to 44.State lottery officials say that the group bought 5 million of apossible 7 million tickets, at $1 each, in a lottery with a $27 million jackpot. Only an 11:15 p.m. purchase deadline -- five minutes before the state drawing on Feb. 15 -- prevented the group from buying the other 2 million possible number combinations.