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  • Glendy Sanabria sells Powerball tickets at a 7-Eleven in Beltsville on Tuesday, one day ahead of the drawing for more than $500 million. A lot of people in the District, Maryland and Virginia just know that their lottery ticket is the lucky one. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Jackpot fever hits again with dreams of $500M

    The drawing for the second-largest lottery jackpot of all time is Wednesday night, when it will either irrevocably alter the life of a lucky ticket holder or send the nation into a never-before-seen state of money mania — again.


  • A customer buys Mega Millions tickets at the Exxon station at the base of the Key Bridge in Georgetown on Wednesday, hoping that little piece of paper will become hundreds of millions of dollars. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Mega Millions' $500M lottery payout has players dreaming

    What would you do with $500 million? That's a question millions of people across the country are asking themselves as the clock ticks down to Friday's record-breaking Mega Millions lottery drawing.


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