String of mailbox bombings in Palm Springs
Today at five, we told you about a string of mailbox bombings in south Palm Springs. But neighbors say they're not laughing at these pranks. These crude plastic bombs can be really dangerous.
It's happened four times in the last month, all in this same neighborhood in the southern end of Palm Springs. Mailbox bombs going off right outside people's front doors. No one's been hurt, but residents are fed up.(snipped)
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At least 14 dolphins found dead in Panhandle bay
The Associated Press
3/11/2004, 7:31 p.m. CT
CAPE SAN BLAS, Fla. (AP) -- At least 14 bottlenose dolphin were found dead Wednesday and Thursday in and along the shore of St. Josephs Bay in the Florida Panhandle, said state and federal officials who were unsure of the cause.
Post-mortems will be conducted in an effort to learn why the marine mammals died, said Thomas Pitchford, a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Marine Mammal Pathology Laboratory in St. Petersburg.
One carcass was found Wednesday and the others Thursday, all at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park on Cape San Blas about 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee.
"This is not a species that typically strands," Pitchford said. He said all were dead when found.
Several dead fish also were found in the bay, which might indicate a toxin such as red tide might be to blame, he said.
Blair Mase, Southeast stranding coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Miami, agreed, but she said nothing has been ruled out.
Some of the carcasses were found floating while others were beached, Mase said. The Conservation Commission was using an aircraft to determine whether other dead animals were in the bay.
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