{"id":205247,"date":"2026-04-26T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205247"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:50:18","slug":"winning-60m-lottery-ticket-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/26\/winning-60m-lottery-ticket-claimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning $60M lottery ticket claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A winning $60 million Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Van Wert last month has been claimed, but the winner or winners will remain anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press release from the Ohio Lottery, the prize was claimed by The Happy Trails Trust, represented by local attorney Shaun A. Putman. The winner opted for the cash option of $30 million before taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winning ticket was sold on St. Patrick\u2019s Day at Tyler\u2019s Short Stop on E. Main St. For selling the winner, the store will receive a $60,000 bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A winning $60 million Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Van Wert last month has been claimed, but the winner or winners will remain anonymous. According to a press release from the Ohio Lottery, the prize was claimed by The Happy Trails Trust, represented by local attorney Shaun A. Putman. The winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 23:45:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205248,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205247\/revisions\/205248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}