Newburgh convenience store sells $4 million Mega Millions ticket

A routine stop at Smokes 4 Less in Newburgh turned into a $4 million payday when a Mega Millions ticket sold at 59 North Plank Road matched the five white-ball numbers in the June 9 drawing. The prize is a second-prize winner, not the jackpot, and the ticket will expire one year from the draw date if no one claims it. After federal withholding and New York taxes, the windfall would still leave the winner with roughly $2.6 million, a life-changing amount that instantly put a neighborhood convenience store at the center of Orange County chatter.

The winning numbers were 09, 30, 36, 38, 40 and Mega Ball 03. Mega Millions is drawn twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday nights at 11 p.m. Eastern, and in New York a single play costs $5. Players pick five numbers from 1 to 70 and one Mega Ball from 1 to 24. The New York Lottery says the game has nine prize tiers, and non-jackpot prizes are multiplied by a built-in multiplier assigned at purchase.

Because the prize is $50,000 or more, the winner must claim it at a New York Lottery customer service center or by mail. That adds a practical deadline to the sudden good fortune: the winner has a year to step forward before the ticket expires. The lottery also says its draw games help fund public education across New York State, so every large ticket sold carries a local, if indirect, public-school connection.

For Newburgh, the bigger story may be the store itself. Smokes 4 Less has now sold multiple winning tickets in recent months, including a separate $2 million Mega Millions second-prize ticket for the last Sept. 2 drawing, other TAKE 5 prizes, and a prior $1 million Mega Millions ticket. Repeated wins have given the shop an outsized reputation as a lucky stop, and each new multimillion-dollar hit only deepens the speculation about who bought the ticket and when it will finally be claimed.