$1.5B Mega Millions winner comes forward, just weeks before deadline to claim prize

6:04am PST - March 5th, 2019    powerball winners - CBC News

Lottery officials on Monday announced that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the $1.5-billion US Mega Millions jackpot from last October — the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in U.S. history — but elected to remain anonymous.