WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. lottery is celebrating some recent winners.
Five people will get ceremonial checks on Friday from the lottery’s “Big Payoff” game - a second-chance promotion where players could use losing tickets to enter a sweepstakes.
The lottery calls it the largest cash giveaway in its history, with $1.4 million in prizes.
The biggest winner was 33-year-old Keyarna Jenifer of southeast Washington, a mother of four who works in pest control and pocketed $500,000.
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