{"id":92381,"date":"2025-12-12T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92381\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:43:07","slug":"northern-california-lottery-scratchers-player-hits-15m-jackpot-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92381\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California lottery Scratchers player hits $15M jackpot \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another lottery Scratchers player in Northern California hit the jackpot recently, to the tune of $15 million, according to the California Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Cooksey won the top prize on a 40 Years of Play! ticket he bought from the AM\/PM store at 12725 Yosemite Blvd. in Waterford, which is about 60 miles due east of Livermore in Stanislaus County.<\/p>\n<p>The $15 million take is one of the largest a player can win on a Scratchers ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the jackpot for Friday night&#8217;s Mega Millions draw is at an estimated $70 million, and the Powerball jackpot for Saturday night&#8217;s draw sits at a cool $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another lottery Scratchers player in Northern California hit the jackpot recently, to the tune of $15 million, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,266],"class_list":["post-92381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-northern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92381","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=92381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}