School Teacher Wins $1 Million Dollars! How is this News?

A story about a school teacher in Maryland who won a million dollars on the popular game, Wheel of Fortune was posted today. Can somebody explain why this is news? This story was found on The Washington Post. There were a couple of the 9 principles and 7 yardsticks of journalism that were violated. First of all, Emily Yahr, the author of this story tried making the interesting important, something that shouldn't really be done especially on a news website such as The Washington Post. The yardsticks that were violated are newsworthiness and local relevancy. This story isn't really newsworthy because it doesn't affect a mass number of people. The money affects the teacher's friends and family, but pretty much nobody else. Local relevancy ties in with newsworthiness. It doesn't really affect anyone in Maryland, besides the winner's friends and family. Who cares if this teacher made Wheel of Fortune history? It will ever make it to an actual history textbook. Journalists are supposed to report stories about events that can change the lives of a mass number of people. Obviously, Ms. Yahr does not know that. Aside from the opinion pages (which can't really be critiqued) she has written multiple stories about non important subjects. Some other examples include Darrell Hammond is the new 'Saturday Night Live' Announcer, Kanye West stops concert, singles out audience members to stand up-except one is in a wheelchair, Chris Pratt to host 'Saturday Night Live' with (obviously) musical guest Ariana Grande, and many others. Ms. Yahr should stick to opinion articles instead of unimportant filler stories that have little effect on anyone. There is no way Ms. Yahr could improve upon an unimportant story about Wheel of Fortune. It should have not even been on a site such as The Washington Post. It seems more fit to be on Buzzfeed.