Archive for the 'Florida' Category
Man Killed Over Fantasy Game Cards
November 1st, 2012Via: WSTP: For someone who doesn’t play the fantasy card game “Magic: The Gathering,” watching a round and trying to understand what is going on is difficult. The pace is fast. There are cards and dice. A round can be over before you know it. The game has recently taken the local spotlight for a […]
Mystery Surrounds Graves at Boys’ Reform School
October 15th, 2012Via: CNN: This Florida panhandle town is the home of a mystery that has been lost to time. A small cemetery buried deep into the grounds of a now-defunct boys reform school dates back to the early 1900s. Rusting white steel crosses mark the graves of 31 unidentified former students. Former students said the deaths […]
Florida School District Considers ‘Trash-Cams’ in Lunchrooms to Study Wasted Food
October 9th, 2012Via: NBC: Cafeteria trash cans in some Florida schools may soon be getting a high-tech makeover. After finding out that most of the fruits and vegetables on the school lunch menu ended up in the trash, school board members in the Lake County school district in central Florida are considering attaching cameras to school cafeteria […]
Air Force Might Move X-37B Operations to Florida
September 30th, 2012Via: Florida Today: The military’s mysterious mini-shuttle operations might be consolidated on Florida’s Space Coast, and the upcoming third flight of the Air Force vehicle might land at Kennedy Space Center’s three-mile shuttle runway. In what could be an economic boon for an area still reeling from the 2011 retirement of the U.S. shuttle fleet, […]
TSA Screener Busted for Child Pornography
September 15th, 2012Via: NBC Miami: A Transportation Security Administration employee was arrested on 25 counts of possessing child pornography, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. TSA screener Andrew Smeal, 39, was being held at the Broward County Main Jail on $50,000 bond Thursday night, according to online BSO records.
Human Organs Found In Florida Storage Locker
August 29th, 2012Via: CBS: In what could be described as an episode of “Auction Hunters” turned reality horror show, authorities in Pensacola are investigating after finding human brains, hearts and lungs in a storage unit they say belonged to a former medical examiner. Someone bought the storage unit at an auction last week and noticed a foul […]
Who is Roy Antigua?
August 14th, 2012Via: Bay News 9: As part of an elaborate stash of disguises, Roy Antigua flashed his CIA credentials and effortlessly passed through security three separate times at the Pasco County Courthouse, Sheriff Chris Nocco said Friday. The only problem: his ID was fake. The 53-year-old suspect was captured on surveillance video each time, but he […]
Vast International Child Abuse Network
August 6th, 2012Don’t casually click through to this one. This is a bad one. If you take care of children, and you want to know what’s lurking out there, by all means, read it. My goal, however, is not to traumatize you when you show up here for something to read as you drink your coffee. So […]
Marine Corps Creates Law-Enforcement Battalions
July 23rd, 2012If you think that this is exclusively for deployment abroad, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya. Via: AP: The Marine Corps has created its first law-enforcement battalions — consolidated units of military police officers trained to investigate a variety of crimes. Combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has underscored the relevance of such a force, […]
Air Force Spraying Pesticide in Florida
July 12th, 2012Via: CBS: Skeeters a problem? Lots of people think so, so Miami-Dade officials are calling in the cavalry;well, actually, the Air Force to kill the biting pests and their breeding grounds. However, the attack may come as a surprise because of how low the spraying planes fly. … This newest round of mosquito control involves […]
