{"id":17066,"date":"2025-10-27T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17066\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:51:16","slug":"genesee-county-lottery-players-win-1m-100k-in-erie-canal-raffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17066\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesee County lottery players win $1M, $100K in Erie Canal raffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) \u2014 Two lucky tickets sold in Genesee County, one worth $1 million and another $100,000, were among the winners in the New York Lottery\u2019s special Million Dollar Raffle celebrating the Erie Canal\u2019s bicentennial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BW\u2019s in Pavilion sold one of fifteen top-prize tickets worth $1 million. Western OTB Gaming in Batavia sold one of fifteen second-tier tickets, each worth $100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, the Lottery reported 5,505 winning tickets statewide, including 45 top-tier prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Million Dollar Raffle tickets were numbered between 1,208,648 and 2,000,000, with drawings conducted from that range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York Lottery said it contributed $3.6 billion to education in fiscal year 2024\u20132025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New Yorkers seeking help with problem gambling can visit NYProblemGamblingHelp.org, call 1-877-8-HOPENY, or text HOPENY (467369) for confidential assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochesterfirst.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to RochesterFirst.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to RochesterFirst. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) \u2014 Two lucky tickets sold in Genesee County, one worth $1 million and another $100,000,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,919,138,137,12335,12333,12334,12336],"class_list":["post-17066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-canal","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-genesee-county","tag-new-york-lottery","tag-raffle-tickets","tag-western-otb-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066","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=17066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}