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A pair of winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday night's drawing.

Here are Wednesday’s winning lottery numbers: The estimated Powerball jackpot is $216 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $98.4 million.

The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "North Carolina Cash 5" game were: You also can respond to a story: Submit a letter to the editor.

For the 11th time this year, a winning ticket was sold in the Jackpot Triple Play Florida Lottery drawing held July 8.

Many lottery players have shared their experiences discovering a lost ticket. In June, a Kentucky woman, Pamela Howard-Thornton, won the state lottery after nearly losing the winning ticket by throwing it in the trash.

A $40,000-winning Keno ticket was drawn Wednesday, July 9, according to the CT Lottery. The winning ticket was sold at A & D Package Store on 38 South Turnpike Road in Wallingford, according to the CT Lottery’s website.