{"id":286331,"date":"2026-09-15T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286331\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:22:32","slug":"1-million-lottery-ticket-sold-at-throop-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286331\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 million lottery ticket sold at Throop convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket was sold recently in Throop.<\/p>\n<p>M Kumar P Inc., which operates the Food Express gas station and convenience store at 914 Dunmore St., sold the winning ticket, state lottery officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The winning ticket is part of the Snake, Rattle and Roll game, a $20 game that offers top prizes of $1 million. The store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lottery scratch-off prizes expire one year from the game\u2019s end-sale date posted at palottery.com. Lottery officials remind winners to immediately sign the back of their ticket and call the lottery at 1-800-692-7481.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch-offs are distributed at random, meaning the Pennsylvania Lottery and its retailers do not know where winning tickets will be sold, officials said. The lottery learns where winning tickets are sold only after a prize has been claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket was sold recently in Throop. M Kumar P Inc., which operates the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,3104,181],"class_list":["post-286331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-throop","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286331","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=286331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}