{"id":100925,"date":"2016-05-20T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100925"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:40:27","slug":"winning-mega-millions-ticket-sold-in-williston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100925","title":{"rendered":"Winning Mega Millions claimed, Williston resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MEGAMILLIONS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-100944\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MEGAMILLIONS-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"MEGAMILLIONS\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MEGAMILLIONS-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MEGAMILLIONS-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MEGAMILLIONS.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Lottery officials in North Dakota say a Williston resident has claimed the largest lottery prize ever won in North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The man, who officials say has chosen to remain anonymous, claimed the $3 million prize Friday. The Mega Millions ticket for the Tuesday draw was sold at a gas station in Williston.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Powerball prize worth $1 million was also claimed Friday. A group from Jamestown won the prize in the April 20 draw.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lottery officials say the Powerball prize is the fourth largest prize won in North Dakota Lottery history. The winners also chose to remain anonymous.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday&#8217;s draw is about $187 million, while the Powerball jackpot for the Saturday&#8217;s draw is estimated at $70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The North Dakota Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $3 million was sold in Williston.<\/p>\n<p>Lottery officials say it marks the largest prize won in the history of the North Dakota Lottery. No one has yet come forward yet to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket matched all five white balls for a $1 million prize, but the buyer purchased a Megaplier for $1 more and the draw of a \u201c3\u201d tripled the prize\u2019s value. It was sold at Kum &amp; Go on 2nd Street West, which will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were 17, 24, 27, 48, 75, and the Mega Ball was 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday\u2019s drawing is $187 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Lottery officials in North Dakota say a Williston resident has claimed the largest lottery prize ever won in North Dakota. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The man, who officials say has chosen to remain anonymous, claimed the $3 million prize Friday. The Mega Millions ticket for the Tuesday draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100925"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101091,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100925\/revisions\/101091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}