{"id":1449,"date":"2025-10-14T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1449\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:14:12","slug":"local-powerball-winner-claims-2-million-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/1449\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Powerball winner claims $2 million prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A St. Lucie County man just claimed a big prize playing Powerball.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Lottery announced Tuesday that Charles Simpkins of Port St. Lucie claimed a $2 million prize from the Powerball\u00a0drawing held on May 31.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Simpkins&#8217; winning Powerball ticket matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball number. <\/p>\n<p>He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Simpkins purchased his $2 million-winning Powerball with Power Play Quick-Pick ticket from the Peacock Liquor store located at 270 Northwest Peacock Boulevard in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A St. Lucie County man just claimed a big prize playing Powerball. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2065,171,173,172,2066,2067],"class_list":{"0":"post-1449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-charles-simpkins","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","12":"tag-powerball","13":"tag-winning-powerball-numbers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}