{"id":285925,"date":"2026-09-14T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285925\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:14:07","slug":"million-dollar-winning-scratch-off-sold-at-lackawanna-county-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285925\/","title":{"rendered":"Million dollar winning scratch-off sold at Lackawanna County retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THROOP, Pa. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> minted a new millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Food Express, 914 Dunmore St., Throop sold a scratch-off ticket worth $1 million, the Pennsylvania Lottery said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The winning ticket was a Snake, Rattle and Roll, a $20 scratch-off in which players have a 1-in-1,440,000 chance of hitting a $1 million jackpot. One player in Throop beat those odds.<\/p>\n<p>For selling the winning ticket, the retailer will collect a $5,000 bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THROOP, Pa. \u2014 Lackawanna County minted a new millionaire. Food Express, 914 Dunmore St., Throop sold a scratch-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-285925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285925","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=285925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}