DORCHESTER, Mass. (WWLP) - A woman from Lowell is the winner of a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” instant ticket game. Family First Trust in Rhode Island claims $1M Massachusetts lottery ticket Elizabeth Correia of Lowell chose the cash option and received a one-time payment of $650,000, before taxes. Correia says that she plans on investing her winnings. The winning ticket was purchased at Santo Domingo Liquors on Hampshire Street in Lawrence, which will receive a $10,000 bonus for the sale of the ticket. Massachusetts State Lottery The Massachusetts State Lottery began in 1971 to generate local aid revenue for the 351 cities and towns through state-run games of chance. Since the lottery's first ticket sold in March of 1972, over $32 billion in net profit has been returned to the Commonwealth. Local News Headlines Mass Clean Energy Week brought EVs to a Palmer racetrack DCR names new Indigenous Peoples partnership coordinator The American Cancer Society’s VOICES of Black Women study launched in Massachusetts Brushfire risk persists in Massachusetts WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.