LONACONING, Md. (AP) — Someone hit it very big in a hard-luck Appalachian coal-mining community, where a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731 million was sold this week.
The Maryland Lottery says the fifth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history was won by someone who bought a ticket at Coney Market in Lonaconing. That’s in a remote corner of Maryland where jobs are few and poverty runs deep. Maryland is a state that allows lottery winners to remain anonymous.
Shop owner Richard Ravenscroft told The Associated Press he hopes whoever won it will use it wisely and enable others to benefit as well.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan is calling on all Maryland school systems to make every effort to have some form of in-person classroom learning by March 1 or sooner. Local officials have the power over opening schools. But Hogan said Thursday that he'll do whatever he can legally to push them to do so, if they don't reopen. Hogan says a growing consensus has emerged that there is […]
