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  • 22
    Sep
    2012
    12:15pm, EDT

    Sheriff: Mother kills 2 kids, then hangs herself


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    A 34-year-old Florida woman apparently killed her two children in their house and then committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Saturday.

    Deputies responded to a house in unincorporated Clearwater, west of Tampa, shortly after 2 a.m. after receiving a call for help. They discovered Dawn Brown and her two children, ages 5 and 9, dead in the house.


    It’s believed that Brown killed her two children and then hanged herself with an electrical cord from a bedroom ceiling fan, the sheriff’s office said.

    No details were revealed on how the children were killed. Their cause of death will be released after an autopsy, the sheriff’s office said.

    Authorities did not give a possible motive for the killings.

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    How terribly sad. RIP little ones.

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  • 2
    Feb
    2012
    2:01pm, EST

    $1 million lottery winner won't quit waitress job

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    Alexandra Chaar.

    One 21-year-old Florida waitress has no plans to quit her day job – even after winning a $1 million lottery prize.

    "No way," Alexandra Chaar told Florida Lottery officials on Wednesday. "I love where I work."

    Chaar, who works at a Mexican restaurant in Clearwater Beach, Fla., said she bought her ticket in the state's $1 million Monopoly Scratch-Off Game at a local food mart.

    "I kept going back to the same store to buy them; the people who work there got to know me," Chaar told the lottery commission. "They said that up to this point, their store had never had any big winners, but I just had this lucky feeling."

    Chaar chose the one-time, lump-sum payment for her winnings in the amount of $700,000.

    According to Tampa Bay Online, Chaar told lottery officials she was a straight-A student at St. Petersburg College and planned to use the money to pay for college.

    Until then, she’ll keep working for tips.

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    Look at her Tebow'ing. Good for her! Congratulations!!

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