Tag: bizarre

MIAMI (AP) -- A sinkhole that started out the size of a small swimming pool and continued to grow in Florida swallowed a boat, destroyed two homes and prompted officials to evacuate residents from about a dozen homes Friday.

MARINELAND, Fla. (AP) -- Crews are searching for survivors of a small plane that crashed along Florida's Atlantic coast.

The biopsy shows cancer, so you have to act fast, right? Not necessarily, if it's a prostate tumor.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida sheriff's deputy was arrested on DUI charges when he crashed his truck into a pedestrian bridge near Disney Springs at Walt Disney World.

MIAMI (AP) — A 63-year-old Florida man who became irate over the response time for service on his dead car battery is accused of fatally shooting a service technician from AAA.

GARDENDALE, Ala. (AP) — Three people gunned down at the start of a daylong drama were victims of what authorities called a carefully planned ambush by a 52-year-old Florida man who then fatally shot himself in a parking lot in Florida as police closed in on him.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A 16-year-old high school football player from Florida has died, days after he collapsed due to heat stroke during an offseason football workout.

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- A stash of cocaine hidden inside a Cookie Monster doll has landed a Florida man in jail on a drug charge.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Two Florida boys ages 11 and 12 have been arrested on charges they raped an 11-year-old girl.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There’s an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that’s popular with kayakers and tourists.