{"id":405957,"date":"2026-08-14T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:06:26","slug":"not-a-billion-dollars-but-a-fort-worth-resident-just-won-a-lottery-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405957\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a billion dollars, but a Fort Worth resident just won a lottery jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth resident just won a lottery jackpot. No, not <a data-ylk=\"slk:that one;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/powerball-jackpot-billion-dollars-winner-illinois\/507-3c76de8c-e094-4643-8f2a-04fa7d0e7033\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">that one<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Instead, the resident claimed the top prize in a Texas Lottery scratch ticket game, instantly becoming a million dollars richer, according to a press release from the Texas Lottery. The ticket was purchased at K U Food Mart LP located at 2221 W. Seminary Drive in Fort Worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winner chose to remain anonymous, the release states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This marks the third of four top prizes to be claimed in the Instant Millions game, which offers more than $91.3 million in total prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth resident just won a lottery jackpot. No, not that one.\u00a0 Instead, the resident claimed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3823],"class_list":["post-405957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-texas-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}