‘Beautiful prize’: Oregon man with cancer wins $1.3bn lottery jackpot

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It was about eight years after a cancer diagnosis when Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, his wife and their friends bought a batch of lottery tickets at a north-east Oregon convenience store in early April. They ended up winning the eighth-largest jackpot in US lottery history, officials revealed Monday, when Saephan appeared at a news conference and wondered how much time he had left to enjoy the windfall he is splitting with two of his loved ones. “How am I going to have time to spend all of this money?” Saephan said at Oregon’s state lottery headquarters of the $1.3bn Powerball jackpot...