{"id":69869,"date":"2025-12-24T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69869\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:33:06","slug":"christmas-powerball-dreams-throop-store-sells-100k-ticket-amid-1-7b-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69869\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Powerball dreams: Throop store sells $100K ticket amid $1.7B jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potential $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot is exciting hopefuls, sparking dreams of a life-changing Christmas surprise.<\/p>\n<p>THROOP, Pa. \u2014 Someone might wake up on Christmas morning $1.7 billion richer.<\/p>\n<p>The Powerball jackpot is climbing once again, after no one matched all the numbers in Monday night&#8217;s drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 stopped by Juniors Convenience in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Throop<\/a>, the store sold a ticket matching four of the five white balls plus the Powerball earlier this week, earning a lucky lottery winner a whopping $100,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players here are hoping lightning strikes twice.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Jones of Scranton says, &#8220;Well, because of the price. How high the price is. Should be enough to retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the Powerball drawing on WNEP ahead of the Newswatch before Christmas tonight at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potential $1.7 billion Powerball jackpot is exciting hopefuls, sparking dreams of a life-changing Christmas surprise. THROOP, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-69869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69869","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=69869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}