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FLORIDA \u2014<\/p>\nWinning $800 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Florida<\/p>\n
FLORIDA \u2014<\/p>\n
Someone in Florida woke up Wednesday morning hundreds of millions of dollars richer.<\/p>\n
A Mega Millions ticket buyer in Florida is the winner of the $800 million jackpot that was up for grabs. The $800 million jackpot is the highest lottery prize of the year so far.<\/p>\n
The winning numbers for Tuesday night’s draw were 34, 48, 49, 59, 70, and gold Mega Ball 12. The winning ticket was sold at a Wawa located at 14510 State Road 70 in Bradenton.<\/p>\n
The winner can collect their winnings in one of two ways: in 30 annual installments or a one-time cash prize of $344.2 million, according to Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n After taxes, the lump-sum payment would drop to around $261.6 million, Forbes said.<\/p>\n Are you Florida’s newest millionaire? Be sure to check your Mega Millions ticket.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winning $800 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Florida FLORIDA \u2014 Someone in Florida woke up Wednesday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[145807,1185,145809,73839,2344,104,28,30,145811,29,10779,145376,4329,145813,9415,145368,213,145212,30385,145810,16099,145814,6694,197,11884,8527,145812,37532,145808,221,13477,145815,9416,31469,7067],"class_list":["post-357229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-800-million-jackpot","tag-alert","tag-annual-installments","tag-cash-prize","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-millionaire","tag-florida-news","tag-forbes","tag-gold-mega-ball","tag-gulf-coast-news","tag-highest-lottery-prize","tag-jackpot","tag-jackpot-winner","tag-late-news","tag-lottery-prize","tag-lottery-winner","tag-lump-sum","tag-mega-millions","tag-mega-millions-ticket","tag-million","tag-sport","tag-state-road","tag-taxes","tag-ticket-buyer","tag-tuesday-night","tag-tuesday-night-draw","tag-weather","tag-wednesday-morning","tag-wednesday-morning-hundred","tag-winner","tag-winning-numbers","tag-winning-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357229","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=357229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}