{"id":71034,"date":"2025-12-26T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71034\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:49:11","slug":"pennsylvania-sold-2-winning-powerball-tickets-totaling-over-1-million-from-christmas-eve-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71034\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania sold 2 winning Powerball tickets totaling over $1 million from Christmas Eve drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c75e2fce7808e7ae1349e7b85e694e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the massive Powerball Jackpot was won during the Christmas Eve drawing in Arkansas, some people in Pennsylvania also saw success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/national\/powerball-player-arkansas-has-won-1817-billion-lottery-jackpot\/YDNDE747ZNB33DIKC37W7XMW7M\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; A Powerball player in Arkansas has won a $1.817 billion lottery jackpot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; A Powerball player in Arkansas has won a $1.817 billion lottery jackpot<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two winning tickets with a combined total of $1.1 million were sold in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A $1 million ticket was sold at Pittston Candy &amp; Cigar Company in Pittston, Luzerne County and a prize of $100,000 was won from a ticket sold at Martino\u2019s BI-LO in Brockway Boro, Jefferson County.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ticket sold in Luzerne County matched the five white balls, reading: 4-25-31-52-59.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ticket sold in Jefferson County matched the red Powerball number, 19, but only four of the five white balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lottery said the last Powerball jackpot run generated more than $141 million in sales, which created a $56 million profit that would benefit Pennsylvania seniors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the massive Powerball Jackpot was won during the Christmas Eve drawing in Arkansas, some people in Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22186,15732,803,28,30,29,2485,37340,19342,15205],"class_list":{"0":"post-71034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-christmas-eve","9":"tag-jefferson-county","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-pittston","15":"tag-pittston-candy-cigar-company","16":"tag-powerball-jackpot","17":"tag-powerball-number"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71034","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=71034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}