12 year old (Florida) boy arrested for farting in class : ATOM 0.3

12 year old (Florida) boy arrested for farting in class

One dirty little 12 year old boy in Florida found out quickly that "forced flatulance" in the classroom will earn you a trip to the big house (where they like that sort of thing).

Secrets of survival during a New Year trip

Successful New Year trip makes a holiday really happy. To the contrary, spoilt vacations can not only sadden holiday memories, but also cloud the whole future year. So you need to foresee everything.

4 Year Old Survives House Explosion

One moment, the little girl was sitting on the couch in her home. The next, the split-level house in suburban Pittsburgh was obliterated by a natural-gas explosion and the girl was covered with debris in the yard next to a neighbor’s house.

WWII Tank, Bombs Found Buried Near Central Florida School

In all, 400 lbs of explosives were detonated Saturday. Areas on school grounds still have to be checked for munitions but officials said children at the school are safe, huh..?

19-year-old to graduate college after year

A 19-year-old suburban Detroit resident is on track to graduate from The University of Michigan after just a year of study.

Student Arrested After Cutting Food With Knife (in Florida!)

An elementary student in Marion County was ARRESTED Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said.

South Florida heading for serious drought

Despite heavy rains during the past month, scientists say South Florida is on its way to a serious drought.

2008: A year in15 minute celebrities

Some people measure years in music or photos, but we like to measure the year in the little blips on the radar that are 15-minute celebrities.
*how about Edward Smith*
Briefly famous for: Admitting to having sex with over 1000 cars.
<---or Joe the plumber

How to decrease your property value in 3 easy steps

1. Buy a house in East Orlando between Lee vista and Azalea Park
2. Watch the news to see if you live on top of a former military bombing range
3. Watch your home value plummet

For more than a year this community has had to deal with undetonated WWII munitions buried under an elementary school and sprinkled throughout a neighborhood or two. Now they have to deal with mustard gas and "other dangerous chemicals".

2,700-year-old fabric found in Greece

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad."

Transsexual uses roommate's ID for prostitution arrest

Police say they still have to use this poor girl's name for the arrest. Isn't Florida wonderful?

Man Made Video To Introduce Wife To 15 year old Sex Slave

2 FLORIDA slime are sentenced to 15 and 10 years.

Have fun in prison. I hear pedophiles are real popular.

Rare, endangered ghost orchid featured in book, movie found in Florida tree

A rare ghost orchid has been found growing high in an old cypress tree in a southwest Florida nature preserve.

Teen Dials Wrong Number, Gets Arrested

Investigators in Florida arrested a 14-year-old boy who apparently dialed a really, really wrong number. Authorities said the boy offered to sell drugs to the person on the other end, who happened to be a police detective.

Teacher makes 7-year-old hit himself

A Parkway School District teacher said he was using a teaching technique when he twice ordered a 7-year-old student to hit himself in the head as hard as he could with a pair of drum mallets.

Florida Lawmakers Consider Outlawing Salvia divinorum

There are several states that have made salvia illegal so far, but to quote the article "...in Florida, there is no law"

Alcohol has caused tens of thousands more deaths than this, but hey if it is smoked, it must be bad eh? I don't know much about the stuff, the attention it is getting just seems a little biased.

Manatee rehab and release

Sharpie the manatee was injured by fin entanglement and also had boat propeller wounds on his back when he was found. After months of rehab he was returned to the gulf this week. On average only 60 manatees are able to be rescued and rehabilitated every year. There were more than 500 deaths in 2007, more than half due to boating related injuries.

The Florida House recently voted to eliminate the funding that reimburses these
resuce groups, although the Senate has voted to continue funding for these programs.

This is after last years suggestion by the Federal Wildlife Service that sea cows could be downgraded to threatened on the federal endanger species list. The agency has not recommended that step, pending a Florida's wildlife commission population study after much pressure from conservation groups and Gov. Charlie Crist.
There was also a cancellation of this years manatee count due to warm weather and an "overhaul" of the formula they use to determine the count.

(I like sea cows, I kayak with them. I'll shut up now)

61-Year-Old Man Adopts 41-Year-Old Woman

9 year old accused of dealing drugs

that her father put in her backpack. No, it wasn't cocaine or heroin. Much worse. Vitamin C.

Woman's shock as 11-ft alligator turns up on her doorstep in Florida

Plagued by uninvited guests? Try throwing out a welcome mat like this.

The 11-ft alligator was spotted lying very still on a suburban doorstep in Florida, doing its best to blend in with the garden decor.

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida

The Florida Board of Education officially upheld evolution yesterday.
Well, sort of...