ABC7
Surveillance video from a Maryland gas station shows a man celebrating a Powerball lottery win.
We might have our winners.
Maybe.
According to ABC 7 WJLA, one of the two winning Powerball tickets may have been sold to a highway or construction worker who walked into a Prince George's County, Maryland gas station Thursday and showed employees the winning ticket. That winning ticket would have been bought 2,500 miles away in Arizona.
Surveillance video shows the man, clad in yellow, checking his Powerball numbers - then pumping his fists in celebration before double-checking the numbers with employees and customers.
If that ticket is a winner, it's worth nearly $200 million. Winners have 180 days to redeem their prize.
REUTERS
A man leaves the Trex Mart gas station in Dearborn, Missouri where one of two winning tickets in a $587.5 million Powerball lottery was sold.
We won't have to wait long to learn the identity of the other Powerball winner. Lottery officials in Missouri are holding a press conference this morning to introduce America's newest multi-millionaire, believed to be Mark Hill, 52. The winning ticket was reportedly sold at a Trex Mart gas station in Dearborn, a 500-population town located north of Kansas City.
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot - $587.5 million - was the second-largest in US lottery history, trailing March's $660 Mega Millions jackpot.
Ironically, that Mega Millions win also focused on Maryland, with ill-informed McDonald's employee Mirlande Wilson bragging to co-workers that she won - and telling reporters she hid the ticket at work before ultimately losing it.
No, Wilson was never a lottery winner. Three educators later came forward to collect their share of the jackpot. Seven months later and another Maryland resident is striking lottery luck or daze, this time from 2,500 miles away.
With AP
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