South Carolina lottery winner to pocket record $1.53bn

A lottery player from South Carolina is the sole winner of a Mega Millions $1.53bn jackpot; a record for a single-win jackpot in the US. The anonymous winner now has the choice of taking an $878m pay out in one single transaction, or spreading the total amount over 29 years and receiving payments of $52.7m per year. The record US jackpot total was set in January 2016, but in that case, three Powerball tickets split a $1.58bn prize. The jackpot...