{"id":153549,"date":"2026-03-31T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:44:11","slug":"pennsylvania-man-wins-50000-during-pit-stop-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153549\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man wins $50,000 during pit stop in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania man David Costella made an unplanned stop during a family road trip and won a $50,000 prize from the Maryland Lottery. Photo courtesy of the Maryland Lottery<\/p>\n<p>March 31 (UPI) &#8212; A Pennsylvania man made an unplanned stop during a family road trip and won a $50,000 prize from the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/lottery\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lottery\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lottery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gettysburg resident David Costella <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdlottery.com\/stop-in-maryland-lands-pennsylvania-man-50k-on-lottery-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Maryland Lottery officials<\/a> he was driving home in early March with his daughter and granddaughter when they made a stop for food at Rutter&#8217;s on Taneytown Pike in Emmitsburg.\n<\/p>\n<p>Costella bought a $5 Money Maker scratch-off ticket during the stop and continued his drive home.<\/p>\n<p>He said it wasn&#8217;t until two weeks later that his wife found the unscratched ticket while cleaning up and reminded him to check it.<\/p>\n<p>Costella said he initially wasn&#8217;t sure what he was seeing on the ticket, so he gave it to his daughter to scan and she confirmed it was a $50,000 winner.<\/p>\n<p>The winner said some of his prize money will fund a family vacation next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man David Costella made an unplanned stop during a family road trip and won a $50,000 prize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8773,1408,18228,28,30,29,18229],"class_list":{"0":"post-153549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-funny","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-weird"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153549","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=153549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}