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 Porn Star's Hubby 
 Loses Town Manager Gig 

Mayor acknowledges he did a good job, but could be distracting

Jul 23, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn cost Scott Janke his job. He didn’t download it at work, but he did marry an adult video star. The Fort Myers Beach, Fla., town manager and Anabela Mota (stage name: Jazella Moore) wed last year, but the mayor and council members didn't hear about it until Tuesday,... More »

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Florida • pornography • termination • porn star • Scott Janke • Anabela Mota Janke • Jazella Moore • Larry Kiker • Fort Myers Beach, Fla.

Slain Couple
Stashed 100K
in Home Safe

Adoptive parents of 13 gave gang boss financial help

Jul 22, 09 1:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The gang who killed a Florida couple in a military-style assault on their home were after a safe that contained $100,000 in cash, a source tells CNN. The suspects fled with a smaller safe after being unable to open the main one, according to the source. The smaller safe... More »

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Florida • robbery • murder • home invasion • Byrd Billings • Melanie Billings • Leonard Gonzalez Jr

Same-Name Couple to Wed After Meeting
on Facebook

Kelly Hildebrandt (F) made the first move

Jul 20, 09 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kelly Hildebrandt found her soon-to-be husband on Facebook—but not in the usual ways, such as through college or friends in common, the AP reports. The 20-year-old Floridian plugged her name into the social-networking site’s search engine and found the only match at the time—Texan Kelly Carl Hildebrandt.... More »

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Florida • social networking • Facebook • name • Kelly Hildebrandt

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 Sotomayor Wins 
 Republicans' Backing 

She's shown 'judicial temperament': statement

Jul 17, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Lugar said today he’ll back Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court bid, making him the first GOP senator to do so, the Washington Post reports. Mel Martinez of Florida, the chamber's sole Republican Latino, quickly followed suit. “Judge Sotomayor has demonstrated a judicial temperament during her week-long nomination... More »

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Florida • GOP • Indiana • Richard Lugar • Senate Republicans • justice • Mel Martinez • nominee • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

8th Bust Made in Murder of Fla. Pair; Cartel Link Surfaces

Eighth arrest in slaying of Byrd and Melanie Billings

Jul 16, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - An eighth arrest was made yesterday in the killing of a Florida couple with 16 kids, the Pensacola News Journal reports. Pamela Long Wiggins, 47, has been charged as an accessory to the crime. She has been linked to two other suspects—she rents an apartment to the man described... More »

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Florida • FBI • murder • parents • arrest • drug cartel • home invasion • Byrd Billings • Melanie Billings • Pamela Wiggins

(Newser) - With Florida’s python population exploding, state wildlife officials are going on the offensive, hiring a team of trained hunters to track down the alarmingly large snakes and take them out, the Miami Herald reports. “There’s one way to do this: kill the snakes,” says Florida Sen.... More »

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Florida • snakes • hunting • Charlie Crist • Bill Nelson • Everglades • pythons

7 Busted in Slaying of Couple Who Took in Disabled Kids

Men trained for military-style assault on parents of 17

Jul 15, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The video surveillance system a wealthy Florida couple installed to keep track of their 13 adopted children has helped catch their murderers, the Pensacola News Journal reports. The seven men in custody trained for up to a month to carry out a military-style invasion on the home of the couple,... More »

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Florida • robbery • murder • Byrd Billings • Melanie Billings

(Newser) - He sat in the studio as the "Bad" album was recorded, dined with countless celebrities, and was once perhaps the world's most famous chimp. But like so many oldsters, today Michael Jackson's onetime pal Bubbles lives a quiet life in the retirement haven of Florida, reports the Miami Herald.... More »

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Florida • retirees • chimpanzees • Michael Jackson • sanctuary • Bubbles the Chimp

(Newser) - Police are interrogating two men they say were caught on videotape in the home invasion-murder of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted 12 children, several of them disabled, reports the Pensacola News Journal. Eight of the children of the murdered couple, Byrd and Melanie Billings, were home at the time... More »

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Florida • adoption • crime • murder • disabled • adoptive parents • Byrd Billings • Melanie Billings • Beulah

 Floridians Gang Up on New 
 Neighbor: 8-Foot Gator 

Said to have come from local canal

Jul 8, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Residents of a South Florida town found a surprise visitor in their pool last night: an 8-foot alligator. Someone—nobody owned up—tied the creature to a tree with an extension cord before calling for help, the Miami Herald reports. When deputies arrived, a crowd of 30 was ogling the... More »

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Florida • wildlife • alligator • animal • reptiles

(Newser) - A Florida teen charged with killing 19 cats in his Miami community became so excited talking about feline dissection that detectives were convinced he was a sociopath, according to court documents released yesterday. Tyler Weinman, 18, never admitted he killed the cats that were found mutilated in his neighborhood, but... More »

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Florida • Miami • animal cruelty • cat • feline • tyler weinman

(Newser) - A 2-year-old Florida girl was strangled to death yesterday by a pet python owned by her mother’s boyfriend, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Charles Darnell noticed that his 8-foot-long albino Burmese python had escaped from its aquarium when he awoke yesterday morning. He found it on top of the... More »

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Florida • snake • burmese python • pythons • snake attack

Fla. Burglars
Get Burned in Pop-Tart Theft

Breakfast treats are evidence in string of
auto break-ins

Jun 30, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pop-Tarts proved a key ingredient in the arrest of two young Florida men for burglary, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The pair asked a cop for a ride home early yesterday; the policeman said he had to search them first—finding a collection of high-tech gadgets and a pack of Pop-Tarts.... More »

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Florida • theft • arrest • burglary • Pop-Tart

How Will Ruth Madoff Survive on Just $2.5M?

With $125K to spend yearly, time to trade in the pair of Mercedes

Jun 29, 09 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With just $2.5 million at her disposal as her husband heads to jail, Ruth Madoff won't exactly be sentenced to penury, but she'll have to cut her annual expenses to the low six figures if she wants it to last her lifetime, reports Brett Arends of the Wall Street ... More »

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Florida • fraud • crime • Manhattan • lifestyle • federal prison • settlement • Ponzi scheme • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff

(Newser) - A Florida town is requiring its employees to wear underwear and deodorant under a new dress code passed this month, the Tampa Tribune reports. Aimed at promoting “strict personal hygiene,” the rules ban “sexually provocative” apparel and forbid “the observable lack of undergarments and exposed undergarments.... More »

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Florida • dress code • free speech • underwear • deodorant

Teen Suspect Arrested in Fla. Cat Killings

Murders spawned 1,000-member Facebook group

Jun 14, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Miami police arrested a teenager today in connection with a high-profile series of cat-killings, the Miami Herald reports. Accused of mutilating and killing more than a dozen cats, Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, was charged with animal cruelty, improperly disposing of an animal body, and burglary. Residents alerted police to Weinman,... More »

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Florida • killer • animal cruelty • teenager • mutilation • cats



 Cities Saddled 
 With the Most 
 Credit Card Debt 

Florida, California have credit problem, Forbes shows

Jun 2, 09 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The recession has many Americans tightening their belts, but some just can’t seem to put away the plastic. Forbes checked in with Equifax and compiled a list of the country's most credit card-happy cities. Conclusion? Florida might have a problem.
  1. Miami: Average household credit card debt: $9,
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Florida • California • list • debt • credit card • consumer debt • consumer credit

(AP) - In the wake of this morning's bankruptcy filing, GM will permanently close nine more plants and idle three others to trim production and labor costs, the AP reports. Assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich., and Wilmington, Del., will close this year; plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Orion, Mich., will shut... More »

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Florida • Boston • bankruptcy • General Motors • Ohio • Michigan • Virginia • Tennessee • Delaware • auto industry • Big Three

Fla. Eyes Loosing Bounty Hunters on Pythons

Some 150K snakes living in Everglades

May 29, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With pythons slithering amok in the Everglades, Florida wildlife managers are toying with the notion of employing bounty hunters to cull the population, the Miami Herald reports. “If we don't get on top of this, they're going to eradicate the indigenous species of the Everglades,” said one. Officials... More »

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Florida • snake • wildlife • Everglades • bounty hunter • burmese python • pythons

(Newser) - The first pizza shop in Domino’s founder Thomas Monaghan’s Catholic university town of Ave Maria, Fla., will not be a Domino’s, the Fort Myers News-Press reports. Domino’s says the town is covered by another franchise’s delivery radius, and Ave Maria will get a Milano’s... More »

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Florida • Catholic Church • Domino's Pizza • Ave Maria • Catholicism • pizza • Thomas Monaghan • Milano's Pizza

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