Towson Woman Wins $50K In Powerball: Maryland Lottery

TOWSON, MD - A Towson woman won big for the second time in a decade, according to the Maryland Lottery.

Ten years ago, the woman won $250,000 from the lotto and used it to start a business, lottery officials said. Since then, she said she has continued to play the lottery, buying about 20 tickets a year. Her persistence in playing the lottery paid off.

This month, she played Powerball and cashed in on $50,000 in winnings.

While cleaning out her purse, the woman found a lottery ticket from the Aug. 12 Powerball drawing that she had not checked and was told to redeem her prize at the Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore.

Buttons Liquor Store in Lutherville sold the woman the ticket, which she cashed in for $50,000 on Friday, Aug. 25.

“This is going to let me exhale about bills I have due,” the 59-year-old grandmother said in a statement from the Maryland Lottery. “It’s such a gift to not have to worry so much.”

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