Body falls from Miami-bound cargo flight

MIAMI — Authorities said a body fell out of a plane that traveled to Miami from the Dominican Republic.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the body fell from the wheel well of an Amerijet cargo flight that left the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. The flight arrived in South Florida about two hours later.
Bergen [...]

Inmate sues Penthouse magazine for denying him subscription

What, no Penthouse in the big house?
A Florida prison inmate is suing the nudie magazine because it refused to send a subscription to him behind bars.
Jorge Niebla, who is serving 13 life sentences for kidnapping and armed robbery, filed the two-page suit in handwritten block letters to Manhattan Federal Court.

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Sunrise volunteers clean up home, fill huge Dumpster with rotting furniture, debris

SUNRISE – Debra Higgins’ property got a makeover Saturday.
She didn’t win a contest. But because she owes more than $600,000 in fines on her home for code violations, the city volunteered to lend her a hand, or more like many hands.
More than a dozen volunteers from the city, police and police Explorers spent their morning [...]

Burglars return vial of ashes

ORLANDO – Burglars returned a vial containing the ashes of a woman’s son two days after ransacking and stealing property from her Florida house., police said.
Emely Santana, 37, of Orange County, said she could deal with everything else stolen from the home, but that she was relieved to have the vial back.
It contained some [...]

Deputies: Husband gets violent with wife, kills pet rat

Darren Daniels
A DeLand man, enraged because his wife took his last cigarette, strangled a pet rat to death then refused to stop for deputies who used stop sticks to flatten his car’s tires, sheriff’s officials said Friday.
Darren Daniels, 22, also grabbed his 20-year-old wife, Kaela Daniels, in the upper chest during the confrontation. The wife [...]

Florida death row inmate sues to get his victim’s Chevy

1971 Chevy Cheyenne Pickup truck
TAMPA – A Florida death row inmate is suing to get a vintage Chevy pickup owned by the couple he is convicted of killing.
William Deparvine was sentenced to death in 2006 for killing Richard and Karla Van Dusen. His lawsuit over their car has now dragged on for two years, the [...]