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Two $10K Winning Tickets For $1.58B Mega Millions Sold In Bel Air, Baltimore

Two winning tickets worth $10K each from the $1.58B Mega Millions Tuesday drawing were sold in Bel Air and Baltimore.

BEL AIR, MD — Even though the winning ticket for the record $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot surfaced in Florida, there were two $10,000 winners in Maryland.

The first $10,000 ticket was sold at 7-Eleven #21054 at 5920 Pulaski Highway in Baltimore. Bel Air’s Wawa #553 at 709 Belair Road in Harford County sold the other $10,000 prize.

The winning numbers to match were the white balls 13, 19, 20, 32 and 33 plus the gold Mega Ball 14; the optional Megaplier was X2.

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Lottery officials encourage winners to sign the back of their tickets immediately and put them in a safe location until they can claim their prize. Winners have 182 days from the date of the drawing to claim prizes.

The state had 26 third-tier winners of at least $10,000 during this jackpot run that started on April 21. There have been over 1 million winning tickets sold in Maryland during that time. More than $56.5 million in sales occurred during the roll, and based on approximately 25 percent of sales being returned to the state, the profit to the Maryland General Fund from those sales was about $14.5 million.

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