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Officials call off search for Florida sinkhole victim
Officials in Florida announced on Saturday that they have called off the search for the 36-year-old man who was swallowed by a sinkhole under his bedroom late Thursday night. NBC News reported that authorities had not been able to locate Jeffrey Bush since he disappeared after the hole appeared under…
Dog shoots Florida man with ‘unloaded’ gun
Police in Sebring, Florida say a man told them that his dog accidentally shot him in the leg with a gun that he thought was unloaded. Gregory Dale Lanier of Frostproof was riding in his truck on Feb. 23 when the dog knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor of…
Swastikas found at scene of Florida daycare fire
The owners of a church and daycare facility in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pointed to swastikas spray painted on the building as proof that the fire that tore through the building late Saturday night was a premeditated hate crime. “Three weeks before this happened, somebody called on the phone and threatened…
Drunk man leaves baby at Florida strip club
A man was arrested in Florida on Sunday after allegedly stumbling into a strip club and asking a clerk to watch his child. Police said that Kenneth Rowe, 26, walked into Daytona Beache’s The SHARKLOUNGE, a combination liquor store and strip club, on Sunday night drunk and carrying an 11-month-old…
FL police: Man shot roommate over how to make pork chops
A Florida man is accused of second-degree murder after allegedly killing his live-in tenant in an argument over how to make pork chops, WESH-TV reported on Thursday. Police said they found 55-year-old Thomas Hahn sitting in a chair next to the body of Robert Eugene Gray Jr. when they arrived…
More graves discovered in 100-year-old Florida school abuse scandal
New investigation puts deaths at nearly 100 since 1900 – many young, black males sent to the institution for minor infractions The scale of abuse at a notorious youth residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a report by investigators who say they have evidence…
Girl killed in Florida school bus shooting
MIAMI — A 13-year-old schoolgirl in Florida was shot dead Tuesday by another student as she was being transported on a school bus with her younger sister and eight other children, police said. “The girl was taken to Children’s Hospital in Miami where she died,” said Alvaro Zabaleta, spokesman for…
Gov. Perry vows to drug test unemployed Texans
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Tuesday that he’s throwing his support to proposals that would require applicants for unemployment benefits and food stamps to submit to a urine analysis drug screening. “We have to remember a core mission that has been trusted to us by the people of the…
Florida Secretary of State: long lines show ‘people liked the voting hours’
Despite early voting lines reportedly up to six hours long, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State would not apologize for shortening the state’s early voting period from 14 to eight days, reported Think Progress. CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield specifically asked Rick Detzner whether he regretted shortening the early voting period this…
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