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Those hoping for an instant fortune have another chance at lottery glory after Friday's massive Mega Millions drawing turned out no big winner.

Continuing a trend in recent years of massive jackpots, the Mega Millions lottery has reached $344 million after no one won Friday night's drawings.

Continuing a trend in recent years of massive jackpots, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot is nearing a $300 million payout for a drawing this week.

Mega Millions players in Maryland will see jackpots and their odds of winning increase under a new rollout of the popular multi-state game that will debut Tuesday.

A $1 million, second-tier Mega Millions ticket has been sold at a 7-Eleven in Clinton, said Maryland Lottery officials on Wednesday morning.

The winner of last week's $189 million Mega Millions jackpot hid the winning ticket in an unplugged lamp for more than a week before claiming the prize, lottery officials said Friday.

The only winning ticket for Tuesday night's $189 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Maryland, according to state lottery officials.

Powerball players have a 1-in-175 million chance of winning the fifth largest lottery jackpot in history – a whopping $400 million – in the drawing Wednesday night.

The Powerball jackpot ballooned to $400 million after no one won the latest drawing on Saturday, the fourth time this year that lottery's jackpot has passed the $300 million mark.

The Powerball jackpot has swelled to $400 million after no one won the latest drawing Saturday.

After few months without a massive jackpot, the national Powerball drawing is again gaining stream, raising its prize to $300 million ahead of Saturday's drawing

The Powerball prize is tempting many Marylanders to buy tickets for the lottery game before the Saturday night drawing.

A Mount Airy woman won a $26 million Mega Millions jackpot this week, state lottery officials announced, and the grandmother of two now plans to buy her first home — a beach house.

The single winning ticket in the Tuesday night Mega Millions drawing — for a jackpot of $26 million — was purchased at a gas station in Mount Airy, according to lottery officials.

The public fascination with who won the record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot turned to Maryland on Friday, as reports surfaced that a customer at an Upper Marlboro gas station claimed he had the coveted winning ticket.

The winning Powerball numbers have been drawn. Wednesday's jackpot was worth $588 million.

The jackpot for the Powerball lottery soared on Tuesday to a record $550 million and could increase again by the time the winning numbers are drawn on Wednesday, a lottery official said.

Towson Town Center mall shoppers hope $500 million Powerball drawing will help subsidize some serious holiday shopping.

Lottery officials said no one won the estimated $325 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night, setting up the possibility of a record $425 million winner Wednesday night.

The jackpot for the multistate Powerball lottery has grown to $325 million, after another drawing passed Wednesday night with no winner.

Saturday's Powerball jackpot has rolled up to $214 million after a $50 million Delaware winner in early October. The last Maryland winner of the Powerball jackpot was a Cecil county couple who won $128.8 million on Christmas eve.

A group of 14 McDonald's employees from the Baltimore area are still convinced they were winners in the massive $656 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing earlier this year -- despite being told otherwise by lottery officials -- and are now claiming a co-worker defrauded the Maryland Lottery.

Nick Ruth is $250,000 richer, thanks to a winning Mega Millions ticket. But this 19-year-old Towson resident is not thinking about a BMW or a Harley or even a trip to the Bahamas. "I have no major plans besides donating," he said.

Nicholas Ruth has been playing the Lottery for just over a year, but he has developed a steadfast ritual in this short period of time: He only buys his Mega Millions tickets at the 7-Eleven closest to his workplace.

Maryland's lottery officials are considering plans that would vault them into the vanguard of Internet gambling — all without a direct vote by the General Assembly.