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Laurel: To a rash of good luck. Everyone who buys a lottery ticket has that moment of hope and imagination, dreaming of walking away with the big prize. Lately, though, it seems like a lot of those big prizes are popping up in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
It started in May. The last two months have seen a $3 million scratch-off sold in Ligonier,
$1 million winners in North Huntingdon, Wilkinsburg and Pittsburgh, three $250,000 tickets in Westmoreland County, two $100,000 or higher winners in Fayette County and two more Westmoreland winners of $20,000 or more.
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Five people will split a $515 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Bucks County in May, Pennsylvania Lottery officials announced Friday.
The ticket from the May 21 drawing was purchased from the Levittown 7-Eleven on the 2700 block of Trenton Road.
Peace of Mind Trust, a five-member group, has claimed the jackpot the third and largest Mega Millions prize ever in Pennsylvania.
The after-tax prize amount is $254,233,980.
“This is life-changing generational money. The winners live in small communities in eastern Pennsylvania and desire to keep their lives as normal as possible. Maintaining anonymity is key to ensuring that normalcy. The winning ticket was a Quick Pick,” attorneys Kurt Panouses and Christopher Mahoney said in a joint statement provided to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Pennsylvania’s second-most-famous groundhog urges lottery players to “keep on scratchin’.”
That advice resulted in some major scratch for Indiana County resident Randy Lytle. He won $3 million on a Monopoly 100X scratch-off ticket he purchased on Memorial Day at the Giant Eagle supermarket in Ligonier.
He cashed in by risking some of his previous Lottery winnings on the $30 ticket.
“The day before I bought the same ticket and I won $1,000 on that ticket and I had to go to that Giant Eagle to cash that big of a prize,” Lytle told Lottery officials, adding, “It’s the only reason I was there at that Giant Eagle.“