The Maryland couple won big on a Pick 5 ticket they bought on the way to a holiday party, lottery officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto As a Maryland woman slept, a series of numbers came to ...

Car-ma in full effect! A Maryland man won $500,000 in the Pick 5 lottery last month after a sour encounter on the road left the lucky winner playing the license plate number of a disgruntled motorist.

It’s like a dramatic scene from a movie. “He falls to the floor and she screams,” Maryland Lottery officials said in a Jan. 14 news release. Only, it’s not a movie. It’s the scene from ...