Cops: Woman inhales two cans of dust remover, passes out

Jennifer Marie Fernandez, 37, of North Naples, apparently likes to get high by ingesting a household cleaner. Police say she sucked down two cans of dust remover and then passed out in an alley in a puddle of her own vomit, reports the Naples Daily News. A Naples police officer was called to the Read More

Report: Man kidnaps girlfriend, takes her to Walmart

A woman told Okaloosa County deputies that her boyfriend, Andrew James Foster, had held her captive for more than three hours.

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Fake bomb at theater was a UCF class project

A fake bomb forced the evacuation of an Ocala theater on Saturday and kept hundreds of moviegoers from their cars. Marion County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Gold said “It looked real, with five sticks of dynamite, wires come out of it with a timer.” Police said the realistic-looking Read More

Florida education news: Hands-on science, FCAT testing, teacher evaluation and more

KIDS DIG SQUIDS: Marine science students at Wesley Chapel High School in Pasco County enjoy science the way they say it should be taught — hands on, with fresh squid. (Times photo, Jeffrey S. Solochek) LET US HELP: Leaders of St. Petersburg's black community visit troubled John Hopkins Read More

Florida education news: School vouchers, Teach for America, charter high school and more

SHE'S BACK : Despite health problems, Florida state Sen. Larcenia Bullard, a Miami Democrat passionate about education issues, returns to the Capitol . (Photo from cbsnews.com ) BIG SHIFT: Florida Democrats increasingly come to support the idea of school vouchers for poor children, Education Read More

Consolidation Clowning

Like almost everyone else in Escambia County, we haven’t paid sufficient attention to the proposed city-county consolidation plan (available in full text here ). Partly this is because, as with the new Pensacola City Charter , it looks to us like a different circus with the same clowns. Read More

Florida education news: School volunteers, money woes, teacher raises and more

SUPER MAN: At 97, Morris Gutterman keeps going strong by tutoring children at Leila G. Davis Elementary School in Pinellas. (Times photo, Jim Damaske) NOT ALL THAT: Outgoing St. Petersburg College president Carl Kuttler is only due about one-third of the amount he requested as retirement Read More

Can’t get enough of Valentine’s Day? Then marry one.

Not a typical DUH. But this is oh-so-sweet. It’s about a woman named Rosella, who, as a child, loved Valentine’s Day.

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