A man sitting on a park bench at Federal Hill scratches a lottery ticket. Birds flock from over his shoulder and his ticket begins to glow with energy as as the flying creatures spiral toward him, as purple lightning bolts electrify the ...

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SILVER SPRING — A Silver Spring man won a state lottery game twice at the same convenience store. Maryland lottery officials said in a statement 39-year-old Jorge Matamoros, who works in construction, won $5,000 March on a scratch-off game called ...

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A dispute over a new lucrative contract for lottery services in Maryland could land in front of a legislative committee even as the losing bidders have filed formal appeals with a state administrative board. Sen. Nancy King, D-Montgomery and co-chair ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lottery officials inflated a $262 million, eight-year information technology contract for monitoring wagers to include kinds of internet gambling that aren’t allowed under state law, according to one of the losing bidders. As a result, the lottery ...

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State lottery officials said Thursday that they are not able to quantify the number of instant lottery tickets that were stolen during the April rioting in Baltimore that may have been subsequently cashed. Gina Smith, assistant director and chief financial ...

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A nascent attempt by the Maryland Lottery to move into the world of digital lottery services will be delayed while a newly formed commission studies the proposal.

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The big Mega Millions jackpot-winning tickets may have been sold in Georgia and California, but Maryland Lottery officials say a ticket worth $1 million was sold in Anne Arundel County. Lottery officials announced Wednesday morning that a second-tier winning ticket ...

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A few government and politics headlines for Friday.

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It is no coincidence that the end of the Maryland lottery’s decade-and-a-half string of record sales came in the same year Maryland casinos really cashed in.

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Three former employees claim Maryland Live Casino owes them a payout — and not from the slot machines.

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