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One winner in New Year’s Day Mega Millions drawing, $4M ticket sold in Pa.

Tawnya Panizzi
By Tawnya Panizzi
1 Min Read Jan. 1, 2019 | 7 years Ago
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One lucky winner in New York matched all the numbers in the Jan. 1 Mega Millions jackpot worth $425 million.

According to CNN, the ticket was sold at Brookville Auto Service in Oyster Bay on Long Island.

One ticket worth $4 million was sold in Pennsylvania and six others sold are worth $1 million each. Those winners are in Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and New York.

The winning numbers were 34, 44, 57, 62 and 70. The Mega ball was 14 and the Megaplier was 4.

The ticket-holder is guaranteed a cash payout of $250 million.

The jackpot is the eighth largest in Mega Millions history. Mega Millions is sold in 44 states, along with Washington, D.C., and the US Virgin Islands.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302 million.


Tawnya Panizzi is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Tawnya at 412-782-2121, ext. 2, tpanizzi@tribweb.com or via Twitter @tawnyatrib.


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Tawnya Panizzi is a TribLive reporter. She joined the Trib in 1997. She can be reached at tpanizzi@triblive.com.

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