{"id":129781,"date":"2026-03-04T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129781\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:14:15","slug":"1-million-a-year-for-life-winning-lottery-ticket-sold-at-western-pennsylvania-gas-station-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129781\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 million a Year for Life winning lottery ticket sold at Western Pennsylvania gas station \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">FREEPORT BOROUGH, Pa. \u2014 A gas station in Armstrong County sold a winning \u201c$1,000,000 a Year for Life\u201d scratch-off ticket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The BP located at 222 Buffalo St. in Freeport Boro sold the top-prize-winning ticket and will receive a $100,000 bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The game offers winners a choice between $1 million a year for life or a one-time cash option of $14.5 million, less applicable withholding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The \u201c$1,000,000 a Year for Life\u201d Scratch-Off is a $50 game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Scratch-Off tickets are distributed to retailers at random. The Pennsylvania Lottery and its retailers do not have prior knowledge of where winning tickets will be sold. The lottery identifies the selling location only after a prize has been claimed by a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREEPORT BOROUGH, Pa. \u2014 A gas station in Armstrong County sold a winning \u201c$1,000,000 a Year for Life\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20002,7923,10405,8080,35170,529,60,1707,5365,13078,14465,2265,2807,12933,35171,107,10734,19611,7685,2084,34636,24972,13558,83,16888,3799,15656,35172,35173,15181,21727,28,30,29,35174,874,65,5378,7213,593,35175,35176,7175,4051],"class_list":{"0":"post-129781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-20002","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-bank","11":"tag-batch","12":"tag-benjamin","13":"tag-bill","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-cash","16":"tag-close-up","17":"tag-currency","18":"tag-dollar","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-franklin","21":"tag-green","22":"tag-greenback","23":"tag-group","24":"tag-heap","25":"tag-hundred","26":"tag-isolated","27":"tag-jackpot","28":"tag-large","29":"tag-loan","30":"tag-many","31":"tag-money","32":"tag-nobody","33":"tag-number","34":"tag-object","35":"tag-pack","36":"tag-package","37":"tag-paper","38":"tag-pay","39":"tag-pennsylvania","40":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","41":"tag-pennsylvania-news","42":"tag-pile","43":"tag-president","44":"tag-salary","45":"tag-sign","46":"tag-thousand","47":"tag-us","48":"tag-usd","49":"tag-wages","50":"tag-wealth","51":"tag-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}