Tag: bizarre

PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) — Two deputies rescued an 82-year-old Florida woman from a sinking car that had landed in a pond.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a camera battery overheated and exploded at the Orlando International Airport, prompting flights to be held.

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged mistreatment of cows at a Florida dairy farm.

SOUTHPORT, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a Florida girl suffering from problems with 17 rotten teeth are facing child abuse charges for failing to get her treatment.

A Clearwater student is recovering in the Tampa General Hospital's burn unit after being severly injured in a fire at High Point Elementary School.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 4-year-old girl who wasn’t strapped into a car seat died when the car she was riding in crashed into a utility pole while trying to make a U-turn in front of oncoming vehicles.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University indefinitely suspended its 55 fraternities and sororities Monday after the alcohol-related death of a freshman pledge and cocaine charges for another fraternity member.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State becomes at least the third university this year to suspend Greek life because of alcohol-related tragedies.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. soldier killed in the Pacific during World War II will be buried in Florida after his remains were identified by a DNA match with a descendent.

MIAMI (AP) — Ten times, South Florida police departments rejected George Miyares after he failed psychological, polygraph or background tests. He was investigated three times by Miami-Dade Corrections, which hired him as a guard, and cited for excessive use of force against an inmate in one case.