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No one had the winning ticket in Saturday's Powerball drawing, leading to a jackpot for Wednesday that could become the second-highest ever.

Records show the Maryland Lottery’s top-selling instant ticket in 2017 was – by far – the $30 ticket, which was a gamble when it was introduced last year because the state had never offered such an expensive ticket. But it's paying off for the lottery.

Mega Millions game to cost more, offer larger jackpots and look more like Powerball. In Maryland, the lottery game has seen declining sales.

Md. Lottery sales rank 9th in nation but everybody is chasing Massachusetts

The Powerball and the Mega Millions both tempt with jackpots more than $350 million this week.

Five minutes with Maryland state lottery chief Gordon Medenica

A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in Carroll County in advance of Saturday's drawing.

Even though no one won the Powerball jackpot last night, a million dollar ticket was sold in Ocean City.

Coming off a record year for lottery sales, Maryland is launching what will be its most expensive ticket — $30.

September was 'challenging' month for state lottery, particularly for the draw games such as Powerball

Maryland Lottery reports record yearly sales, aided by Powerball and scratch-offs

Time ran out Friday for a Mega Millions player to cash in a winning, $1 million ticket before it expired.

Marylanders are leaving about $20 million a year on the table in unclaimed lottery winnings, according to records obtained from the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency.

With tonight's Mega Millions lottery drawing at $449 million, Towson retailers are still waiting for the rush of people trying their luck.

For the first time last year, like many others I presume thanks to an in-your-face-every-15-seconds advertising campaign, I decided to give the phenomenon known as daily fantasy sports a try. Let's just say I lost more than I won, but I had fun playing. Maryland voters might get a say in whether I and tens of thousands of other Maryland residents get a chance to play in the future.

As the Maryland Lottery went about encouraging the media to urge people to play for last week's record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, each news release came with this reminder: "Maryland Lottery and Gaming contributed $1.012 billion to the state in FY2015. Please play responsibly."

Washington suburbs dominated record Powerball drawing sales

There is a new radio station here in town called the Bloomberg Radio, and you can get it on a radio via Frequency Modulation at 99.1.

Should lottery winners be permitted to remain anonymous?

Show of hands, how many of you played the Powerball this week? Guilty as charged. I purchased five tickets among the more than 635 million tickets sold for the unprecedented $1.6 billion jackpot that will be split among three winners from Wednesday night's drawing. I even won. A whole $4.

The players hail from many different Maryland towns – Baldwin, Baltimore, Fallston, Finksburg, Kingsville, Reisterstown and Westminster. One player lives in Delaware.

The lottery's biggest losers

A Worcester County man who won Saturday's $1 Powerball ticket has claimed his prize, lottery official said.

Maryland lottery director wants to induce out-of-staters to come play record $1.5 B Powerball jackpot

Harford County has been stricken with Powerball fever during the past week as the top prize increases from about $500 million to a peak -- as of Tuesday morning -- of $1.5 billion.

Did you buy a Powerball ticket for Wednesday's lottery drawing?

What you need to know about Powerball and Maryland jackpots

As the world's richest lottery jackpot swelled to $1.5 billion, retailers reported customers trying to improve their odds by buying Powerball tickets in bulk — a practice many statisticians believe defies sound reasoning. People are drawn to play against the unfathomable odds by what's become a world record lottery prize.

Maryland schools say they've been shortchanged but wasn't casino and lottery supposed to fix that?

A ticket sold on Maryland's Eastern Shore was one number away from making it's lucky owner a near-billionaire.

Though many are keeping their fingers crossed for tonight's whopping $900 million Powerball jackpot, one lucky person can claim a $1 million Mega Millions ticket purchased in Maryland.

There was no jackpot winner in the drawing for a Powerball prize Wednesday night, but Thursday afternoon, players were already lining up to purchase more tickets in hopes winning the largest price in the game's history.

It wasn't quite 5 p.m. when people began popping into College Square Liquors in Westminster, one after the other, seven inside of 10 minutes. And while there were those who went on to peruse the long aisles of wooden shelves of wine or stacked cases of beer, it was the prospect of stacks of green bills that drew these customers to the counter: The Maryland Lottery announced Tuesday afternoon that the Powerball jackpot had reached $450 million, the fourth-highest jackpot in its history.

A $1 million Mega Millions ticket was sold at the Royal Farms in the 2700 block of Washington Boulevard in Southwest Baltimore, according to officials at the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission.

Someone is $1 million richer after buying a winning Powerball ticket at a Giant in Howard County recently.

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $235 million after nobody won the top prize in Saturday's drawing.

At the Soda Pop Shop, players love swapping anecdotes about big wins and near misses. There's always plenty to talk about since the store averages nearly $116,000 a week in lottery ticket sales, more than any of Maryland's other 4,500 lottery retailers

Maryland gaming officials approved a new lottery drawing game, called Cash4Life, on Thursday. The regulators also voted to allow casinos to lower required average annual payouts to players from slot machines.

Maryland officials say lottery sales and casino revenues contributed over a billion dollars to the state in the 2015 fiscal year, the first time the number has topped the $1 billion mark.

A $1 million Mega Millions winner bought their lucky ticket at High's in West Friendship, state lottery officials said.

Cody Kent, a Texas man in Howard County on business, was the winner of $1 million in Saturday's Powerball drawing. Kent purchased the ticket at a 7-Eleven store in Elkridge.

A customer at a Howard County 7-Eleven bought a $1 million Powerball ticket for Saturday's drawing, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency said Monday.

There are currently three unclaimed $1 million Powerball tickets in Maryland, two of which were sold in Howard County.

A lucky winner of last nights $1 million Powerball drawing purchased their ticket in Columbia, state lottery officials said.

Sadly, the winning $500 million Powerball jackpot tickets weren't sold in Maryland but two lucky winners who bought tickets in the state are $1 million richer, lottery officials said Thursday.

Second-tier winning ticket for Saturday's Powerball drawing was sold at a Food Lion in Essex, lottery officials said.

A lucky winner of a $2 million Powerball ticket bought their ticket a Hampden liquor store, the state lottery officials said.