$1M Lottery Winner, Fatal Hit-and-Run, Redskins-Themed Restaurant: News Nearby

Patch has 32 sites in communities in Va. and D.C. Here are some of the top posts from the past 24 hours.

• Fatal Hit-and-Run Victim Was Fleeing Potomac Mills Assault: Police
• Redskins-Themed 'Hail+Hog Kitchen and Tap' Set to Open May 20
• Uh Oh -- Another Smoke Problem at a Metro Station Causes Single-Tracking: Report

$1M Lottery Winner Just Needed Change for Taxi

All Felecia Hall wanted was some change for a taxi, so she could go to lunch with her son. So she stopped by Connie’s Market in Triangle and bought a Golden Spades Scratcher ticket from the Virginia Lottery.

It wasn’t until later, after she’d sat down and ordered lunch in the restaurant, that she discovered that ticket she'd bought on a whim was worth $1 million. >>> Read more.

FBI: Serial ‘Ballcap Bandit’ Bank Robbery Suspect Strikes Again

The FBI said Wednesday that a suspect who robbed a bank in Falls Church Wednesday is the same man wanted in two other bank robberies within the past four week in the region.

On Wednesday, the "ballcap bandit" robbed a bank in Falls Church wearing what authorities said appears to be a Colorado Rockies cap and the same coat he had on while robbing the Wells Fargo bank April 28 in Alexandria, the spokesman said. >>> Read more.

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