{"id":140331,"date":"2026-03-17T05:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140331\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T05:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:24:24","slug":"pa-lottery-announces-2-million-mega-millions-winning-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140331\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. Lottery announces $2 million Mega Millions winning ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPRIZE 1 IN 1000 DOLLARS A MONTH FOR LIFE HAS BEEN SOLD AT A     SUNOCO STATION IN WHARTON TOWNSHIP. THIS IS RIGHT ALONG ROUTE 40 NEAR NEMACOLIN. WELL, THE WINNER WILL HAVE THE CHOICE OF THE MONTHLY PAYMENTS OR A ONE TIME CASH OPTIO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Lottery announces $2 million winning Mega Millions ticket<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WTAE logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 2:39 PM EDT Mar 16, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFriday the 13th turned out to be a lucky day for someone who bought a Mega Millions ticket.RELATED VIDEO: Lottery ticket in Western Pa. wins $10,000 a month for lifeOn Monday, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced a $2 million winner in the multi-state lottery game. The winning ticket was sold online.According to the lottery&#8217;s website, the ticket matched all five white balls in Friday&#8217;s Mega Millions drawing: 6, 19, 36, 40, 55.The winner has not been identified. They have one year to claim the prize.&#8221;Online winnings of $2 million for Mega Millions must be claimed in person at lottery headquarters,&#8221; according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.Nobody hit all five numbers and the yellow Mega Ball, so the jackpot will roll to an estimated $60 million for the next drawing Tuesday night.You can view the current and past winning numbers by visiting the Pennsylvania Lottery&#8217;s website here.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky day for someone who bought a Mega Millions ticket.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO: Lottery ticket in Western Pa. wins $10,000 a month for life<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced a $2 million winner in the multi-state lottery game. The winning ticket was sold online.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lottery&#8217;s website, the ticket matched all five white balls in Friday&#8217;s Mega Millions drawing: 6, 19, 36, 40, 55.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has not been identified. They have one year to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Online winnings of $2 million for Mega Millions must be claimed in person at lottery headquarters,&#8221; according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody hit all five numbers and the yellow Mega Ball, so the jackpot will roll to an estimated $60 million for the next drawing Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the current and past winning numbers by visiting the Pennsylvania Lottery&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palottery.pa.gov\/Draw-Games\/Winning-Numbers-History.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for more news in your area | <a target=\"_blank\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRIZE 1 IN 1000 DOLLARS A MONTH FOR LIFE HAS BEEN SOLD AT A SUNOCO STATION IN WHARTON&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64342,4327,64341,2080,7164,13187,3799,33657,1619,28,30,2078,29,39334,1621,5696,4328,37099,7178,3791],"class_list":["post-140331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-13th","tag-friday","tag-lifeon-monday","tag-lottery-ticket","tag-mega-millions","tag-month","tag-number","tag-online-winning","tag-pa-lottery","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lottery","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-related-video","tag-ticket","tag-website","tag-western-pa","tag-white-ball","tag-winner","tag-winning-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140331","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=140331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}