The winner of the biggest jackpot in North American history – $758.7m (\u00a3590m) – has come forward to collect her prize.<\/p>\n
Mother-of-two Mavis Wanczyk, 53, bought the ticket at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, petrol station.<\/p>\n
The winner – whose lucky numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and 4 – told reporters she had already quit her job.<\/p>\n
The biggest ever US Powerball jackpot was $1.6bn, although that was shared by three ticket holders in January 2016.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts State Lottery told reporters the ticket in Wednesday night’s draw had been validated.<\/p>\n
“The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax,” said Ms Wanczyk, chewing gum.<\/p>\n
Image copyrightWBZ-TV)<\/p>\n
Image caption<\/p>\n
The winning ticket was bought at a petrol station in Chicopee, Massachusetts<\/p>\n
“I had a pipe dream.. and it came true.”<\/p>\n
She told journalists she had picked her lucky numbers based on relatives’ birthdays.<\/p>\n
Ms Wanczyk said of her 32-year job at a medical centre: “I’ve called them and told them I will not be going back.”<\/p>\n
She added that she was “going to go hide in my bed”.<\/p>\n
Reporters asked if she had plans to treat herself to something nice, such as a fancy new car.<\/p>\n
But Ms Wanczyk replied she just bought a new car less than a year ago, and now plans to pay it off in full.<\/p>\n
One lottery official described the woman as “your prototypical Massachusetts resident”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The winner of the biggest jackpot in North American history – $758.7m (£590m) – has come forward to collect her prize. Mother-of-two Mavis Wanczyk, 53, bought the ticket at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, petrol station. The winner – whose lucky numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and 4 – told reporters she had already quit her job. The biggest ever US Powerball jackpot was $1.6bn, although that was shared by three ticket holders in January 2016. Massachusetts State Lottery told reporters the ticket in Wednesday night’s draw had been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}