Miccosukee police, assisted by Sweetwater canine units, responded to a call on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation about vehicles being broken into. Todd Tongen said police captured one man, but another fled on foot and dove into a retention pond. Signs warned of the danger of live alligators in the pond behind the casino and hotel.
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SPRINGFIELD — It seems like people are going crazy with angry notes, email messages and blog comments in this high-tech age.

Here are a few examples from a political blog. In one online discussion, Robbie writes that a Missouri congressman is an embarrassment. Purple Leader replies, “Robbie, you are an idiot.” Robbie writes back that the other writer is an idiot, and that comment is served with exclamation points. Continue Reading »

“It may not be likely,” NASA researcher David Morrison told National Geographic News, “but we cannot exclude the possibility that we are, in effect, all Martians.” Panspermia, or the idea that Earth was “seeded” by life from outer space, is centuries old but until lately has not had much scientific evidence to support it. But a European experiment last month demonstrates that microscopic life could indeed survive inside rocks hurtling through space.

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WASHINGTON - After confessing to slaughtering 180,000 Kurds and plotting to build a doomsday nuke, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was so upset when his FBI interrogator left for home that he cried like a baby. FBI Special Agent George Piro whipped out two Cuban Cohibas - Saddam’s favorite cigar - and they smoked on the patio behind his cell at Baghdad’s airport.
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FORT WORTH — This X-rated movie was moving, Fort Worth police say.

Monday morning, a 24-year-old Irving man was cited after a Fort Worth police officer spotted adult films playing inside the man’s car.

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Parents are taking babies as young as four months to special gyms amid growing fears about childhood obesity. A US chain has signed up hundreds of babies and toddlers across London for “developmental gymnastics”. Demand for places has surged as government figures reveal one in five London children under 11 is obese.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 — Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job, which started out at $450 a week but included a pile of Google stock options that she figured might never be worth a penny. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor says the United Nations building is such a hazard that he’s threatening to suspend school visits unless conditions inside are fixed by early next year, according to a media report.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned that field trips will stop if sprinklers, smoke detectors, exit signs, emergency lighting and other safety features aren’t put in place by January and March of 2008, The Washington Times reported Monday.

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Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children. The bigger the difference between a woman’s waist and hips the better.

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Broward County residents now can file for a divorce without leaving the house, or at least get the paperwork rolling.

The Broward County Clerk of Courts launched an online service this month that steers citizens through the application process for filing divorce actions, small claims lawsuits and tenant evictions.
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