Maryland Lottery

Ronald Ashby found out early this morning that he had won $1 million in the Maryland Lottery. Then, he went to bed. “I’m one of those individuals who really doesn’t get too excited about things,” Ashby, 62, of Hagerstown said. He got up a few hours later and drove to lottery headquarters in Baltimore to claim his prize shortly after 10 a.m. Recently retired after 37 years with Allegheny Power, Ashby bought the $20 scratch-off ticket Thursday afternoon at the Food Lion on Sharpsburg Pike.

Boonsboro baseball fan scores $100,000 BOONSBORO - A Washington County woman took home $100,000 from the Maryland Lottery after her number was selected during a live drawing at an Orioles baseball game at Camden Yards Friday. Carleta Griffith of Boonsboro won the top prize of $100,000 in the Maryland Lottery's final Triple Play "Ultimate Fan" contest. The other two contestants, Bruce Dunsmore of Baltimore and Paul Grimes of Columbia, each won $5,000. Griffith is the sixth winner of the $100,000 prize this season and the 18th in the game's history.

Monday night's Bonus Match 5 drawing produced a $50,000 top-tier winner, according to a press release from The Maryland Lottery. The winning numbers were 14,15,17,23 and 30, and the Bonus Ball was 26. The Maryland Lottery will pay the required tax withholdings on the total prize amount. The ticket was purchased at Central City Liquors on West Washington Street in Hagerstown. The winner had not claimed the prize by Tuesday and has 182 days to redeem the ticket.

A winning Multi-Match ticket worth $575,000 was sold at Roxy Liquors at 761 E. Wilson Blvd. in Hagerstown on Monday night, according to the Maryland Lottery. The wining numbers were 1, 2, 13, 22, 37 and 43, according to the Maryland Lottery. Roxy Liquors will receive a bonus of $1,000 and the winner, which has not yet been identified, has 182 days to claim the prize, the lottery said. The Multi-Match jackpot was last hit on Jan. 7 when a $700,000 jackpot was claimed by Berlin, Md., resident Ruth Carpenter.

A lottery ticket worth $50,000 was purchased at a Hagerstown gas station, but the winner did not immediately claim the prize, Maryland Lottery officials said Wednesday. The Bonus Match 5 ticket was purchased at the AC&T on Wesel Boulevard for Tuesday night's drawing. The winning numbers were 03-07-08-18-22 and the bonus ball was 34, the lottery said. Two other area residents have won the Maryland Lottery recently. Retired Waynesboro, Pa., Police Chief Glenn Phenicie and his wife, Valerie, won $3.4 million in the Lotto's Nov. 8 drawing.

Maryland Lottery officials said Tuesday that two recent winning tickets in separate games were sold at Hagerstown-area stores, and one winner had not yet claimed his earnings. A $50,000 winning ticket in Monday's Bonus Match 5 drawing was sold at Wooden Keg Liquors east of Hagerstown, according to a Maryland Lottery news release. Joe Walker, manager of the liquor store, said Tuesday that the winner had stopped in and probably would be claiming the prize soon. Walker declined to identify the winner.

While the big winners in Friday's record $656 million Mega Millions lottery drawing have yet to step forward, a ticket sold in Washington County will be good for a $250,000 consolation prize. The Maryland Lottery announced that a ticket sold at the Sheetz store at 20723 National Highway, Boonsboro, is one of four tickets sold in Maryland that matched five numbers, but not the Mega Ball, in Friday's drawing. The winning numbers drawn Friday were 2, 4, 23, 38 and 46. The Mega Ball was 23. A ticket sold in Baltimore County matched all five numbers, plus the Mega Ball.

shappell@herald-mail.com WILLIAMSPORT - While the mystery of when the holder of a winning lottery ticket purchased in Williamsport will claim the $175,000 prize has ended, the identity of the winner will remain a secret. According to a Maryland Lottery news release, a Martinsburg, W.Va., couple has claimed the Mega Millions prize they won by purchasing a ticket that matched five of six numbers drawn on April 15. The couple, who opted to remain anonymous, bought the ticket at the Sheetz convenience store on South Artizan and East Potomac streets.

Thursday night's Bonus Match 5 game produced a top-tier $50,000 winner in Hagerstown, according to a Maryland Lottery press release. The winning ticket was purchased at Old Orchard Liquors on Virginia Avenue. The winning numbers were 3, 27, 30, 35 and 39, and the Bonus Ball was 29. The winner had not come forward as of Friday afternoon, lottery officials said. As a special feature to the nightly game, the Lottery pays the estimated taxes on all top-tier $50,000 prizes.

SMITHSBURG -- The owner of Village Spirits said Wednesday the liquor store sold a winning $250,000 lottery ticket Tuesday, but no one has claimed it. The Mega Millions ticket was purchased just before 7 p.m. Tuesday at the store at 22935 Jefferson Blvd., store owner Chris Linetti said. The player matched five of six numbers, missing only the Mega Ball, Linetti said. The odds of winning the $250,000 prize are 1 in 3,904,701, according to megamillions.com. Linetti said the ticket purchaser should call the Maryland Lottery at 1-800-388-1333 to claim the prize.

A Hagerstown couple who won $50,000 in a numbers game called Bonus Match 5 will use the money to pay off their daughter's car and some small bills, according to the Maryland Lottery. Ralph and Nancy Lapole of Hagerstown celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary by driving to Baltimore to claim the prize. Bonus Match 5 is a numbers game in which five winning numbers ranging from one to 39 are drawn nightly, lottery officials said. “I play every day,” Ralph Lapole said on the lottery website.

The Powerball jackpot reached $425 million by Tuesday afternoon, making it one of the largest lottery jackpots ever, according to the Maryland Lottery officials. Although the $425 million amount is less than the $656 Mega Millions jackpot won in 2012 and the $590.5 million Powerball jackpot won in May of this year, Erica Palmisano, assistant director of communications for the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, said Powerball fever is apparent in the state. “We've seen people lining up at stores,” Palmisano said.

A 66-year-old woman from Sharpsburg is Washington County's latest lottery jackpot winner. The woman claimed a $625,000 Multi-Match jackpot Friday, according to a press release from the Maryland Lottery. She correctly matched all six numbers in the Feb. 11 drawing. “I found out I won late Monday night when my twin sons woke me up with the news,” the woman said in the release. “They came knocking on my door screaming that I had hit the jackpot.” The woman's sons checked her ticket online and saw that all her numbers matched.

A Hagerstown man has come forward to claim his lottery winnings, but the winner of the $575,000 Multi-Match top-tier prize wants to remain anonymous, Maryland Lottery officials said Friday. The ticket holder had all six numbers in the Jan. 21 Multi-Match drawing. The disabled Army veteran bought his winning ticket at Roxy Liquors at 761 E. Wilson Blvd. in Hagerstown, lottery officials said in a news release. The winning numbers were 1, 2, 13, 22, 37 and 43. Before he discovered he won, the man joked about possibly being the winner of the Multi-Match jackpot that he knew had been sold by a Hagerstown retailer, according to the release.

A winning Multi-Match ticket worth $575,000 was sold at Roxy Liquors at 761 E. Wilson Blvd. in Hagerstown on Monday night, according to the Maryland Lottery. The wining numbers were 1, 2, 13, 22, 37 and 43, according to the Maryland Lottery. Roxy Liquors will receive a bonus of $1,000 and the winner, which has not yet been identified, has 182 days to claim the prize, the lottery said. The Multi-Match jackpot was last hit on Jan. 7 when a $700,000 jackpot was claimed by Berlin, Md., resident Ruth Carpenter.

Born on Dec. 12, 2000, Hagerstown resident Kayla Bailey turns 12 wednesday, on 12/12/12. “It's kind of cool that they're all put together like that,” Bailey, a student at E. Russell Hicks Middle School said Tuesday. “My mom's taking me out to dinner for it.” Although this is the first time the day, month and year aligned for Bailey's birthday, she noted that her special day always does coincide with her new age. She turned 1 in 2001, and 2 in 2002, for instance. But, she said, “Turning 12, on the 12th, in the 12th month of 2012 is a little different.” After Wednesday, the next time the last two digits of the year, the month, and the day will be the same numbers will be in a little more than 88 years.

A third-tier ticket worth $10,000 in the recent Powerball drawing with a $587.5 million jackpot was sold at the Maugans Avenue Shell, according to Maryland Lottery officials. The ticket, which has been claimed, was one of 10 statewide that matched four numbers and the Powerball. Odds of doing so are 1 in 648,975.96, according to the lottery's website. Other third-tier winners were sold in Baltimore City (2) and Baltimore (2), Calvert, Montgomery, Prince George's (2) and St. Mary's counties, according to lottery officials.

While the big winners in Friday's record $656 million Mega Millions lottery drawing have yet to step forward, a ticket sold in Washington County will be good for a $250,000 consolation prize. The Maryland Lottery announced that a ticket sold at the Sheetz store at 20723 National Highway, Boonsboro, is one of four tickets sold in Maryland that matched five numbers, but not the Mega Ball, in Friday's drawing. The winning numbers drawn Friday were 2, 4, 23, 38 and 46. The Mega Ball was 23. A ticket sold in Baltimore County matched all five numbers, plus the Mega Ball.

A yacht for each day of the week. A garage filled with Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Ferraris. A veritable Xanadu to be built on the tropical island of your choice. All these and more treasures can be within the reach of someone lucky enough to win this Saturday's Powerball, which on Friday stood at $315 million. If there were a single winner, that amount could put the ticket-holder between the gross national products of Tonga and the Federated States of Micronesia. Taking the cash payoff of $193.4 million would still place a single winner ahead of the Cook Islands and seven other countries.