A very lucky person — or persons? — won a share of the landmark $640 million Mega Millions jackpot through a “quick pick” at a Baltimore County convenience store, Maryland Lottery officials said Saturday.

The winning number was purchased at 7:15 p.m. Friday at the 7-Eleven at 8014 Liberty Rd. in Baltimore County, and the buyer allowed the computer to pick the numbers, Maryland Lottery spokeswoman Carole Everett said. .

The buyer has not yet come forward, Everett said.

A toddler was hospitalized as a precaution Thursday following an accident involving a golf cart in the Potomac area, Montgomery Count officials said.

Fire and rescue crews were called to the 15000 block of River Road for the report of a pedestrian accident involving a golf cart about 5:30 p.m., said Capt. Oscar Garcia, a fire department spokesman. A toddler was found conscious and crying at the scene but had no signs of visible trauma.

The child, whose age and gender were not released, was flown to Children’s Hospital as a precaution, Garcia said. It was not immediately clear if the child was hit by a golf cart or fell from it.

No further details were available.

U.S. Park Police took down three tents Thursday afternoon in McPherson Square, where Occupy D.C. protesters have been living since last fall.

Park Police took down tents in McPherson Square, loading their contents into a pickup truck. (Katie Rogers - The Washington Post) Around 12:30 p.m., police loaded the contents of the Occupy protesters’ information and meeting tents into a pickup truck.

David Schlosser, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said that some belongings were removed from the square as part of ongoing “standard enforcement” of no-camping rules. One person was arrested, he added.

Police asked protesters to remove a one-person tent, which the protesters agreed to.

Several protesters said they did not know why the tents were taken down, and had no prior warning.

Last month, 11 protesters were arrested in a pre-dawn raid in which police cleared away tents, bedding, trash and dead rodents.

Rival protesters argue outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. (KAREN BLEIER - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) The Supreme Court holds two hearings on Wednesday, the third day of its historic session on the national health-care overhaul signed into law by President Obama.

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4 p.m. | Now that the party’s over...

Now what?

The party’s over outside the Supreme Court, meaning that all the protesters who’ve had a ball there for days, and all the professional line-standers who’ve made pretty good money there, have to find something else to do.

A 78-year-old guy who sported a giant foam justice head – he thinks it’s Justice Stevens but he’s not sure -- said he’s headed to Brazil for more dental work.

“I go down to Brazil and get my teeth fixed – seven implants – and I paid $2,000 for transportation and I ended up [saving] $12,000,” said the man, who goes by Moondancer, lives in Silver Spring and works as Santa Claus in season.

Noon | Linda Dorr worries about breast cancer detection

Linda Dorr of Laguna Beach, Calif., has been a regular, jaunty presence at the Supreme Court since Saturday, sporting berets and headbands and a sign that reads: “Obamacare rations breast cancer detection.”

Linda Dorr of Laguna Beach, Calif., carries a sign that reads: “Obamacare rations breast cancer detection.” (Laura Vozzella)

Dorr, 66, has a history of breast cancer that she said could have gone undetected under the law. Hers was spotted in 2009 with an ultrasound. Dorr conceded that the health-care overhaul provides for yearly mammograms, but said she was concerned that it would not allow for more advanced imaging.

“I just want the right to work with my doctors,” she said.

Come Thursday, she will see some sights in Washington before flying home to California, where she has an interior design business specializing in stone work. Already, she’s been impressed with all of the marble – “There’s a lot of Carrara” – and been shocked to discover that the interior of the Capitol is ultra-soft sandstone.

“It’s one of the softest stones they have,” Dorr said.

11:30 a.m. | Anthony Kennedy gets a shout-out in Schenk prayer

Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered the court’s swing vote, got a special shout-out in a prayer led by the Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, which opposes the health-care law.

The Rev. Rob Schenck, center, leads a prayer outside the Supreme Court. (Laura Vozzella)

It was a surprisingly long prayer considering that Schenck and a handful of Tea Partiers who joined him were on their knees on the sidewalk in front of the court. Schenck was smart enough to bring along a foam knee pad for himself, but most of the others toughed it out on the concrete. (One woman tucked a pair of fuzzy gloves under her knees.)

Schenck quoted Scripture and asked for prayers for each Supreme Court justice by name, paying extra attention to Kennedy, “in whose mind and hands ... it appears this case may rest.”

11 a.m. | Bongos to the left, bells to the right

The left had bongos. The right, bells.

Along with megaphones and microphones, they kept the noise level up even with the head count down.

Susan Clark was the bell ringer. Decked out in a tri-cornered hat, fringed suede boots and red war paint that took the form of a handprint over her mouth, she was part patriot, part Native American impersonator -- just like the original Tea Party crew.

“I’m the one who threw it over the boat,” she told a radio reporter.

Susan Clark protests outside the Supreme Court. (Laura Vozzella - The Washington Post) What will she do Thursday, when there will be no Supreme Court hearing to protest?

“Look for other ways to protect my country,” she said.

9 a.m. | The guy in the gorilla suit finally shows up

There’s a much smaller crowd outside the Supreme Court Wednesday, the third and final day of arguments on the federal health-care overhaul.

Tea Party critics of the law and “Obamacare” supporters are out with signs, bells and microphones, but in much smaller numbers than Monday and Tuesday. Severability and Medicaid — the subjects of separate morning and afternoon hearings Wednesday — clearly are not packing ‘em in like the “individual mandate,” the hot-button issue that was the subject of Tuesday’s session.

Even the line to get into the hearings has dwindled considerably. After observers were let into the court for the morning session, there were just three paid line-standers holding spots for the afternoon.

One new feature today: a guy in a gorilla suit. He held a giant banana that read: “We don’t monkey with the truth.”
A protester wears a gorilla costume outside the Supreme Court. (Laura Vozzella - The Washington Post)

6 a.m. | Day 3: What to expect

The Supreme Court’s first hearing on Wednesday at 10 a.m. will focus on whether the whole law goes down the drain if the justices don’t uphold the “individual mandate” that was the subject of Tuesday’s hearing. The second, at 1 p.m., will consider whether the law’s expansion of Medicaid is constitutional.

Outside the courtroom, protests continue. Supporters of the law hold a news conference at 8:30 a.m., featuring more people sharing personal stories about how the overhaul has helped them.

As Wednesday is the final day of arguments, it’s also the day when the professional line-standers, who’ve camped out on the sidewalk for days on behalf of court observers, finally get to go home — if they have one.

Supporters of the federal health-care law rally in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. (Charles Dharapak - AP) As the Supreme Court heads into the second day of its historic hearing on the national health-care overhaul signed into law by President Obama, arguments inside the high court shift to the hot-button issue of the “individual mandate.”

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2:55 p.m. | Transcripts of arguments are available

The transcripts of Tuesday’s arguments over a key component of the nation’s health-care are now online.

You can listen to them or read them.

The Post’s Robert Barnes and N.C. Aizenman report that the Supreme Court’s conservative judges appeared skeptical on Tuesday that Congress had the Constitutional authority to force Americans to either buy health care coverage or pay a penalty. For more on the proceedings inside the courtroom, read Barnes’s and Aizenman’s full story.

1:55 p.m. | Baring all: A civil discourse breaks out

Joan Stallard dons unusual attire at the protest. (Laura Vozzella - The Washington Post) Among the more unusual political props outside the Supreme Court Tuesday: a rubber keister.

Joan Stallard, a 70-year-old Washingtonian, paired it with a green hospital gown. (She also sported a basic black ensemble underneath, to make sure she only showed off rubber skin.)

"Don't leave us exposed," read the hot-pink sign on her back. Stallard lingered on the sidewalk after much of the crowd had drifted off, and found herself in conversation with Susan Emrich, 55, who'd traveled from Lebanon County, Pa. because she is fiercely opposed to the health-care overhaul.

Emrich’s shirt read: "Hands off my health care." A "Don't Tread On Me" flag fluttered in her hand. And yet there they were, in civil conversation. Not agreeing. But not shouting, either.

Stallard asked Emrich to imagine: What if she got into a car accident on the way home and had no insurance; wouldn't taxpayers and people with insurance wind up picking up the hospital bill?

"They take care of me now," Emrich replied. "They take care of the illegals."

Is it possible, a reporter asked, that they could meet in the middle?"We're meeting on the edges," said Stallard. Said Emrich: "We're discussing."

1:10 p.m. | Outside the courtroom, you can’t hear the gavel

Arguments were over for the day, but only inside the court. Out on the sidewalk, they went on and on, perhaps with greater fervor than earlier in the day, when the noise of chanting crowds made it difficult to talk.

Organized demonstrations were trickling away after 12:30, but there were plenty of lollygaggers hanging back to try to change each other's minds.

"Obamacare rations mammograms," an older woman declared to anyone who cared to listen.

Jasemin Ayarci, a  21-year-old George Washington University sophomore holding a poster of Jesus healing the sick, answered through a megaphone even though she stood right next to her.

"Actually, it doesn't," she said.

12:25 p.m. | Rival protesters make voices heard outside court

Chanting, arguing and even dancing, demonstrators stood their ground all morning outside the Supreme Court.

The Tea Party Patriots staged a large rally near the front steps.

"We will stand, and we will fight, and we will unite, and we will repeal Obamacare!" declared Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), a former GOP presidential contender.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) tears a page from the health-care law during a press conference Tuesday. (Win McNamee - GETTY IMAGES) Bachmann and other tea party speakers could barely be heard above the chants of those on the other side of the debate.

"Protect health care!" they cried. "Protect the law!"

It was payback time shortly after court let out for the day around noon, as "Obamacare" critics called out during a news conference organized by a group called #protectthelaw.

"We the people! We the people!" they shouted.