Lottery tickets for the Mega Millions lottery are purchased from a liquor store where winning tickets have been sold on Dec. 27, 2024, in Hawthorne, Calif. 

A Bay Area man bought a lottery ticket in San Francisco on a whim only to scratch his way to a $2 million prize. 

What started as a slow day turned into a life-changing one for Rwhi Zeidan, who decided to pick up a California Lottery ticket while killing time in downtown San Francisco. He had stopped by Discount Cigarettes and Cigars, located at the corner of Kearny and Commercial streets, across from the Good Luck Cafe, according to a California Lottery........

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