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		</div><p>The largest single-ticket Powerball prize in US history has been claimed by a Massachusetts hospital worker who promptly quit her job.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax,&#8221;</i> Mavis L Wanczyk told reporters at a news conference afetr her huge $758.7m win.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I called and told them I will not be coming back.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Ms Wanczyk, 53, chose to take a lump sum payment of $480m ($336m after taxes), lottery officials said.</p>
<p>The previous evening, she recalled, she was leaving work with a firefighter and remarked: <i>&#8220;It&#8217;s never going to be me. It&#8217;s just a pipe dream that I&#8217;ve always had.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then she read the number on her ticket and realised she had won.</p>
<p>Ms Wanczyk has two adult children &#8211; a daughter and a son.</p>
<p>The announcement that a winner had come forward came after a turbulent morning in which lottery officials initially misidentified not only the shop that sold the winning ticket, but the town.</p>
<p>The lottery corrected the site where the single winning ticket was sold to Chicopee, Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Overnight, it had mistakenly announced that the winning ticket was sold at a shop in Watertown, just outside Boston.</p>
<p>But shortly before 8am local time, the lottery said it had made a mistake and that the winning ticket was sold at the Pride Station &#038; Store in Chicopee, about halfway across the state.</p>
<p>Reporters had descended on the Watertown store hours before it opened at around 6.30am.</p>
<p>Massachusetts Lottery executive director Michael Sweeney said officials were manually recording the names of the retailers that sold the winning ticket and transcribed it incorrectly.</p>
<p>Mr Sweeney issued an apology for the confusion created by the error, but said lottery staff remained thrilled that a jackpot winning ticket and two $1m winning tickets were sold in Massachusetts &#8211; one of those at the Watertown location.</p>
<p>Mike Donatelli, a spokesman for the Pride Station &#038; Store in Chicopee, said the shop was notified shortly before 8am that it had actually sold the record jackpot ticket.</p>
<p>Mr Sweeney said the store will pocket $50,000 for selling the jackpot winner.<br />
Bob Bolduc, owner of the Pride store chain, said the proceeds would be donated to local charities.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The phone started ringing at 8 o&#8217;clock&#8221;</i> Mr Bolduc said. <i>&#8220;We were as surprised as everybody else. We&#8217;re happy for our customer and we&#8217;re happy for the charities.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The lucky numbers from Wednesday night&#8217;s drawing were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and the Powerball number was 4.</p>
<p>Powerball is played in 44 states plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, all of which collectively oversee the game. Draws are held twice a week.</p>
<p>Five white balls are drawn from a drum containing 69 balls and one red ball is selected from a drum with 26 balls.</p>
<p>Players can choose their numbers or let a computer make a random choice.</p>
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