{"id":46049,"date":"2025-11-10T04:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:39:14","slug":"bay-area-liquor-store-sells-14-million-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/46049\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area liquor store sells $14 million lottery ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A family-run South Bay liquor store has found itself in the spotlight after selling a $14 million lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SuperLotto ticket, which won in Saturday&#8217;s draw, was sold by Maple Leaf Liquors in San Jose, the California Lottery announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bhopinder Sandhu opened the establishment, at 1146 Saratoga Ave., in 1986. His store will now receive a bonus from the lottery for selling a major prize-winning ticket. The winning numbers were: 12, 26, 30, 38, 42 and\u00a0Mega 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m still working every day,&#8221; he said, noting that his son Navi is also helping him to run the shop. &#8220;It&#8217;s good for us. We can pay some taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winner&#8217;s name wasn&#8217;t immediately shared by the California Lottery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pot for the next SuperLotto draw Wednesday now sits at roughly $7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lottery officials encourage responsible play. Free and confidential support is available by calling 800-426-2537 or visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/800gambler.chat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:800gambler.chat.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">800gambler.chat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/california-superlotto-winner-21149904.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bay Area liquor store sells $14 million lottery ticket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bay Area liquor store sells $14 million lottery ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family-run South Bay liquor store has found itself in the spotlight after selling a $14 million lottery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6954,29123,14939,14940,30248,88,90,89,30249],"class_list":{"0":"post-46049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california-lottery","9":"tag-google-street-view","10":"tag-liquor-store","11":"tag-lottery-ticket","12":"tag-maple-leaf-liquors","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-superlotto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049","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=46049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}