{"id":330357,"date":"2026-05-24T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330357\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:41:09","slug":"oakland-county-man-sees-better-future-for-his-kids-after-1-million-lottery-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/330357\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man sees better future for his kids after $1 million lottery win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 An Oakland County man is looking forward to giving his kids a better future after winning $1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man won the prize playing the Michigan Lottery\u2019s $1,000,000 Cash Spectacular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlottery.com\/games?WHERE_TO_PLAY=IN_STORE&amp;SORT_BY=NEWEST&amp;GAME_TYPE=INSTANT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">instant game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The 48-year-old man has chosen to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man bought his winning ticket at Main Street Convenience Inc., located at 402 South Main Street in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI stopped at the store and bought three lottery tickets,\u201d said the man \u201cI didn\u2019t win anything on the first two tickets, then I scratched the third ticket and was in total disbelief when I saw I\u2019d won $1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI feel so blessed to win a prize like this. It\u2019s going to give our family a sense of financial security and will allow us to give our kids a better future.\u201d said<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The man recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim the big prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He chose to receive his prize as a one-time lump sum payment of about $693,000 rather than annuity payments for the full amount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">With his winnings, he plans to start college funds for his children.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 An Oakland County man is looking forward to giving his kids a better future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-330357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330357","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=330357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}