A big winning $1 million lottery ticket is sold out in Danville recently

The new year may have made someone in Danville a millionaire. While the winner is still elusive, what’s know for sure is that a $1 million ticket in the Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle was sold at Grill & Grocery on Mount Cross Road in Danville.

It was one of five lucky tickets to capture the top prize of $1 million in the annual raffle-style drawing to ring in a new year.

Seven tickets won $100,000 and another 1,000 winning tickets are worth $500, according to the Virginia Lottery. This marks the second million-dollar ticket sold in Danville recently.

Two Danville siblings came last year forward to collect $1 million from the Sept. 20 Mega Millions drawing.

Jesse Perkins and Mary Crider said they play the lottery when the jackpot gets higher than $200 million.

When they bought tickets for the Sept. 20 drawing, one had the first five winning numbers and only missed the top prize estimated at $277 million by one number.