{"id":183166,"date":"2026-02-18T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:54:08","slug":"california-man-wins-50000-lottery-prize-during-maryland-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183166\/","title":{"rendered":"California man wins $50,000 lottery prize during Maryland trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Feb. 18 (UPI) &#8212; A California man took a trip to Maryland to visit his daughter and ended up winning a $50,000 lottery prize during his vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdlottery.com\/california-visitor-wins-50000-lottery-prize-while-visiting-family-in-maryland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told Maryland Lottery officials;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told Maryland Lottery officials<\/a> he&#8217;s a frequent lottery player in California, so he decided to give the Maryland Lottery a try while visiting his daughter and her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He bought a $5 Festive Fortune scratch-off ticket from the Check Cash Depot on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie and revealed a $50,000 top prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The most recent win leaves four of the original eight $50,000 prizes unclaimed on the Festive Fortune game, along with tens of thousands of other prizes ranging from $5 to $1,000,&#8221; the Maryland Lottery said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 18 (UPI) &#8212; A California man took a trip to Maryland to visit his daughter and ended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,86626,546,86625],"class_list":{"0":"post-183166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-lottery-prize","12":"tag-maryland","13":"tag-maryland-lottery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}