An Oakland County woman won $131,121 with a Michigan Lottery ticket she bought in Pontiac.<\/p>\n
The 82-year-old chose to remain anonymous when she exchanged her Fantasy 5 ticket for the cash, just three weeks before her winning number expired.<\/p>\n
She bought the $1 ticket on Dec. 3, 2024, at Pike Food Center, 465 E. Pike St. in Pontiac. Her winning number: 07-10-21-22-26.<\/p>\n
The woman told lottery officials she buys a ticket occasionally and knew she had a winner but decided to wait before claiming her prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen life got crazy, so I ended up holding onto it for longer than I planned,\u201d she said, adding \u201cIt\u2019s a relief to finally be cashing it in!\u201d<\/p>\n
She plans to share her winnings with her family.<\/p>\n
Fantasy 5 drawings are held seven days a week at 7:29 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at a retailer or online at MichiganLottery.com until 7:08 p.m. on the day of the drawing.<\/p>\n
People living with a gambling addiction or their loved ones who need support can get free confidential help via the National Problem Gambling Helpline, (800) GAMBLER or (800) 426-2537.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland County woman won $131,121 with a Michigan Lottery ticket she bought in Pontiac. The 82-year-old chose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37563,37562,20364,143,37561,145,144],"class_list":["post-62175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fantasy-5","tag-lottery-games","tag-michigan-lottery","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-lottery-winner","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62175","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=62175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}