{"id":74603,"date":"2022-07-07T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/7-25m-winning-lottery-ticket-unclaimed-in-texas-but-it-s-nowhere-near-the-largest-prize-in-history"},"modified":"2022-07-07T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:10:00","slug":"7-25m-winning-lottery-ticket-unclaimed-in-texas-but-it-s-nowhere-near-the-largest-prize-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/7-25m-winning-lottery-ticket-unclaimed-in-texas-but-it-s-nowhere-near-the-largest-prize-in-history","title":{"rendered":"$7.25M winning lottery ticket unclaimed in Texas, but it’s nowhere near the largest prize in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

FILE – Mega Millions lottery ticket (AP Photo\/LM Otero)AUSTIN (KXAN) — Could you be the state’s next millionaire? Someone is about to be — as long as they claim their prize in time after purchasing a winning Lotto Texas ticket.The jackpot-winning ticket — worth $7.25 million for the Lotto Texas drawing on June 25 — was purchased in Irving.The lucky ticket buyer selected the cash value option at the time of purchase, meaning if claimed, they’ll receive $4,632,166.56 before taxes. The winner has 180 days from the draw date to claim the prize.“If you have the winning ticket, we encourage you to sign the ticket, put it in a safe place, seek financial and legal advice, and call the Texas Lottery to schedule an appointment to claim the prize,” said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery.While $4.6 million may seem like a lot, it would actually be only the 451st largest Texas Lottery prize in history. Since being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Could you be the state’s next millionaire? Someone is about to be — as long as they claim their prize in time after purchasing a winning Lotto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,122,218],"class_list":["post-74603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hobbies","tag-lifestyle","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}