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A much needed shot of reality !! Give a listen to the press conference (circa 7/28/06?)

Any idea what's going on down there?

AP-Bucceanners-Johnson Sports URGENT (Tampa, Florida-AP) -- A team source says Tampa Bay Buccaneers star receiver Keyshawn Johnson has been declared inactive for the rest of the N-F-L season. (Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-11-18-03 1435EST

Man arrested for murder, dismemberment LEE COUNTY, November 18, 2002 — Deputies have arrested a Lehigh Acres man for the murder of 35-year-old Oscar Melendez Tolbert, whose dismembered body was discovered by workers at a Fort Myers recycling center on Friday.William Andrew Ware, 45, of 1004 Arthur Avenue South, was taken into custody Monday on charges of First Degree Murder. Investigators were called to Florida Recycling Services on Arcadia Street Friday afternoon when workers sifting through plastic bags of yard waste found body parts in one of the bags READ THE REST HERE Picture of perp Picture of "Victim" (dealer)

Found this link from a site called "BreakingNews.com"....titled "Make your own fireworks"....thought I'd share the goods !! Right Here

Cal Dennie showed concern when describing some of the weapons found in a townhouse on Seminole Blvd in Seminole. Deputies found several homemade bombs and weapons, including a 50-caliber sniper rifle that, according to Dennie, would go through two or three walls in the complex. The small arsenal allegedly belongs to Robert Goldstein who was arrested Thursday night after threatening to commit suicide. Deputies were able to talk Goldstein out of taking his life. Afterwards, a search of the home turned up nearly 40 semi-automatic guns, C4 plastic explosives, hand grenades, homemade Claymore mines, trip wire and bomb-making manuals. Deputies...

TAMPA -- A helicopter crash-landed onto the roof of a one-story home late Monday, spilling fuel into the house and sending a piece of the craft into a child's empty bedroom. Duran, her husband and brother-in-law were in the house during the 9:45 p.m. crash but were not injured. Fire officials said as much as 17 gallons of fuel leaked into the home. Duran's two children were spending the first week of vacation at their father's home, so they were not at home when a 2-3 foot piece of the landing skid fell off the copter and onto the 13-year-old...

The Sheriff's Office says she is suspended for five days without pay for totaling an office car, but prosecutors did not charge her. CLEARWATER -- An undercover Pinellas sheriff's detective has been suspended for five days because she was drunk when she got into a crash with her Sheriff's Office car, sheriff's officials say. Investigators say Detective Karin Bennett had a blood-alcohol level more than twice that at which a driver is considered impaired when she ran the silver four-door Taurus into a light pole Dec. 1. Bennett could have been fired but received the lowest possible punishment because her...

PALM HARBOR -- The man didn't have a bank card in hand. He was messing with the ATM when the customer walked up. Then he looked away and left.A half-hour later, Pinellas sheriff's deputies were at the Bank of America, 33415 U.S. 19, inspecting the ATM. What they found were the inner-workings of an ATM scheme that is as elaborate and sophisticated as local detectives have ever seen. On the machine itself, deputies found a tiny camera, a transmitter and a rigged-up bank card swiper. Stuffed in a large ashtray near the machine, deputies found a black leather bag. Inside...

Right on the NOSE !!!

"....After the beating the rest of Omar's compound took from the air, it's amazing that the house itself still stands. Kandaharis attribute that to its unusual roof, composed of several layers of old tires and said to be part of a bunker design dreamed up by Osama bin Laden himself. (For years, locals say, the Taliban imported amazing quantities of used car and truck tires and nobody could figure out what they were for. Now we know.) The tires do appear to have cushioned the blow of one direct hit on Omar's house. The bomb literally bounced off and fell ...

We met Tim the owner at Tower Shops Car Show on Friday night. We could not get near the this truck to even look at, much less take a picture of it. Digital Wheels could hardly believe the work and detail that went into this truck. Tim the owner is a super friendly person. He quickly set up an appointment with us to do a photo shoot. This truck attracts a crowd like no vehicle we ever seen. It is a great promotional display for any type of business. We hope to see some company cash in on this media ...

For release Tuesday, Jan. 1, and thereafter Lease lets military test quick catamaran from Australia By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer ABOARD THE JOINT VENTURE (AP) _ It took just minutes for this giant, water-jet propelled catamaran to overtake and then run circles around four Navy minehunting ships steaming in a line through the Gulf of Mexico. At 45 knots _ 52 miles per hour _ this is one quick cat. ``It has characteristics that are unlike any ship that I've served on and, really, any ship that we have in the fleet," said Navy Cmdr. Phil Beierl, the ...