{"id":443144,"date":"2026-09-21T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443144\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:30:22","slug":"texas-lottery-winner-claims-7-5-million-lotto-jackpot-takes-nearly-4-million-in-cash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443144\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas lottery winner claims $7.5 million Lotto jackpot, takes nearly $4 million in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Houston resident is nearly $4 million richer after claiming a $7.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot from the Sept. 5 drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The winner chose the cash option when the ticket was purchased and received $3,971,819.05 before taxes, according to the Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The winning Quick Pick ticket, which was purchased at a Kroger on Memorial Drive in Houston, matched all six numbers drawn: 14, 17, 25, 26, 30 and 37.<\/p>\n<p>The winner&#8217;s identity was not released.<\/p>\n<p>The Kroger that sold the winning ticket will also get a piece of the celebration. The store will receive a $25,000 retailer bonus for selling the jackpot-winning ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Houston resident is nearly $4 million richer after claiming a $7.5 million Lotto Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-443144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443144","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=443144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}