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            One Winning Ticket in Largest US Powerball Drawing Ever

   Millions of people across the U.S. have been waiting anxiously to hear
   the results of a record U.S. Powerball lottery drawing late Saturday
   worth $590.5 million.
   Lottery officials said early Sunday, there is a winner. A single
   winning ticket was bought at a store in Florida. The winner has not yet
   come forward.
   The grand prize, accumulated over two months of drawings that did not
   provide a winner, surpassed the previous record Powerball payoff of
   $587.5 million set in November.
   The lucky winner matched five numbers picked from machines holding 59
   white balls, and a special Powerball pulled from a machine filled with
   35 red balls. The chances of winning were one in 175 million.
   The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was a $656 million prize
   split among three winners in the national Mega-Millions lottery in
   March of last year. The world`s biggest lottery prize was Spain`s El
   Gordo, which divided $3 billion among thousands of winners last year.
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