Newlyweds Win $250,000 Lottery Prize

Debra Opper of Owings Mills plans to use the money to go on a honeymoon with her new husband, buy him his own taxi and help her daughters with their bills.

For years, Debra Opper has bought the same lottery tickets each Monday: five $2 multi-match tickets from Monday and Thursday, a $5 Mega Millions ticket for Tuesday and Friday and a $10 Powerball ticket for Wednesday and Saturday. About four years ago, she won $10,000, but never dreamed of a six-figure prize. Last Tuesday, she won $250,000 in the Mega Millions. “Never did I ever imagine that was going to be me. Now I’m even still sitting here at the lottery office waiting for them to say, ‘Haha, it’s a joke. Nevermind,’” Opper said on Friday, when she claimed her prize at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore. “I still have goose bumps.” Opper was in One Stop in Reisterstown last Thursday, where she buys her lottery tickets, when an …

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