{"id":167926,"date":"2026-02-25T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167926\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:13:13","slug":"tarpon-springs-woman-claims-1-million-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167926\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarpon Springs woman claims $1 million lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman bought her winning ticket in a Publix store in Tarpon Springs.<\/p>\n

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 Most people go to Publix and leave with bags of groceries. Last November, a lucky woman stepped out of one of the stores in Pinellas County with a million-dollar prize after she purchased a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n

The Florida Lottery announced that Jessica Henri, 35, from Tarpon Springs, claimed the $1 million prize in Nov. 17 after buying a Holiday Ca$h Scratch-Off game lottery<\/a> ticket.<\/p>\n

According to the Florida Lottery, Henri accepted her prize as a one-time lump sum payment of $606,700 at the Lottery’s Tampa District Office.<\/p>\n

Henri bought her winning ticket in a Publix store located at 40932 U.S. Highway 19 N. in Tarpon Springs.<\/p>\n

“The $20 $1,000,000 HOLIDAY CA$H Scratch-Off game delivers a big top prize of $1 million!” the Florida Lottery said in a statement. “With chances to win up to 21 times per ticket, this game features more than 3 million winning tickets and over $125 million in total cash prizes.”<\/p>\n

According to the Florida Lottery, the odds of winning the lottery with a Holiday Ca$h ticket are 1 in 2.68.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Florida Lottery began in 1988 and has awarded billions in prizes. The mission of the Florida Lottery states that “we care about all our players and ask that you always play responsibly.”<\/p>\n

To play responsibly, the state lottery website\u00a0<\/a>asks players not to think of the lottery as a way to make money, set a budget and stick with it, never chase losses or borrow money to play the lottery, among other helpful tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman bought her winning ticket in a Publix store in Tarpon Springs. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 Most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-167926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167926","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=167926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}