{"id":336052,"date":"2026-05-28T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:53:08","slug":"oakland-county-man-wins-1-million-lottery-prize-waits-for-wife-to-learn-amount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336052\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man wins $1 million lottery prize, waits for wife to learn amount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>61-year-old man bought his ticket online<\/p>\n<p>money (WPLG)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">OAKLAND COUNTY, \u2013 An Oakland County man knew he had won a prize, but waited for his wife to come home to find out the amount. Together the couple won a $1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlottery.com\/games\/powerball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlottery.com\/games\/powerball\">Powerball<\/a> prize from the Michigan Lottery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Roger Roy, 61, matched the five white balls (03-19-35-51-67) in the April 29 drawing to win a $1 million prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He bought the winning ticket online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlottery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MichiganLottery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlottery.com\/games\/powerball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Powerball<\/a> subscription set up on my online account so I don\u2019t miss a drawing,\u201d said Roger Roy, of Ortonville. \u201cThey day after the drawing, I saw an email from the Lottery that was different from the ones I\u2019m used to when I win a few dollars. I knew I must have won big, but I wanted to wait for my wife to get home so we could find out the prize amount together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m sure we will do something fun with the money down the road, but for now we just plan to save it and use it as a financial cushion,\u201d said Roy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"61-year-old man bought his ticket online money (WPLG) OAKLAND COUNTY, \u2013 An Oakland County man knew he had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-336052","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\/336052","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=336052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}