Tag: bizarre

SEBASTIAN, Fla. (AP) — Half the endangered green sea turtles in the Indian River Lagoon suffer from life-threatening tumors, caused by a herpes virus that doesn’t infect us, but that we make worse for turtles.

MIAMI (AP) — A Miami sandwich shop bicycle delivery man was struck by an unmarked police car — and then jailed for 12 hours.

CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with threatening to blow up an elementary school.

PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) — Amanda Spartz nearly did not renew her home’s flood insurance policy after her first year in Florida. Two hurricanes came close to the Fort Lauderdale suburbs last year, but they didn’t hit and her home isn’t in a high-risk flood zone. She figured she could put the $450 annual premium, due next week, to another use.

Tragedy was averted Friday morning when a small plane crashed at Albert Whitted Airport in St. Petersburg.

An outside investigation into the death of Snooty the manatee at the South Florida Museum made shocking findings about how lax employees were about the sea cow’s well-being.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 4-year-old crying in an unlocked van with her mother unconscious from a suspected overdose had been found by a passerby in Florida.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge was correct to dismiss a manslaughter charge against a deputy based on Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law after he fatally shot a black man carrying a realistic-looking air rifle, an appeals court ruled Wednesday in a case headed for state Supreme Court review.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Two young, orphaned manatees have arrived at a Florida zoo after being rescued separately two years ago.

Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis says the city has fired him, even though he was found not guilty in the death of a woman during an August 2016 citizens’ academy demonstration.