{"id":272916,"date":"2013-08-08T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272916"},"modified":"2013-08-09T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:58:24","slug":"winning-powerball-ticket-sold-in-mt-pleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272916","title":{"rendered":"Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Mt. Pleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=272917\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-272917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/thumb_lotto-texas.gif\" alt=\"thumb_lotto-texas\" width=\"95\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-272917\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2013 Four Texas cities &#8212; including Mt. Pleasant &#8212; have new millionaires with tickets matching five of the numbers drawn in Wednesday night\u2019s Powerball drawing being sold by local retailers. Second-tier prize winning tickets were sold in Arlington, Amarillo, Mt. Pleasant, and San Antonio. According to a Lottery news release, the winning ticket in Mt. Pleasant &#8212; worth $1 million &#8212; was sold at South-End Grocery, 1101 South Jefferson Avenue.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to meeting Texas\u2019 newest Powerball millionaires,\u201d said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery, on Thursday. \u201cIn addition to last night\u2019s winners, Texas has had 26 other lottery players become millionaires by winning second-tier prizes this past year.\u201d  Powerball players win second-tier prizes of $1 million by matching five of the numbers drawn but not the red Powerball. By adding the Power Play\u00ae feature for $1 at the time of purchase, players double their second-tier prize win to $2 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2013 Four Texas cities &#8212; including Mt. Pleasant &#8212; have new millionaires with tickets matching five of the numbers drawn in Wednesday night\u2019s Powerball drawing being sold by local retailers. Second-tier prize winning tickets were sold in Arlington, Amarillo, Mt. Pleasant, and San Antonio. According to a Lottery news release, the winning ticket in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=272916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Mt. Pleasant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 03:13:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273047,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272916\/revisions\/273047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}