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A SWAT team Thursday swarmed a Redlands nudist ranch and ripped apart the home of a person of interest in the disappearance of a missing couple. AIR7 footage captured a large tank-style police vehicle tearing down the front of the home where the person of interest may be. "We are using remote equipment to conduct a search currently. We have not yet located anyone inside, Redlands police spokesperson Carl Baker said during a press conference. "We don't know where the subject is. He may still be inside, or he may be somewhere else on the grounds." Investigators returned to the...

Blind woman suing nudist community that told her to get rid of service dog In 2011, a medical condition caused Lutz, Florida woman Sharon Fowler to lose her vision. Legally blind, she had to acquire a service dog, named Laura. Ms. Fowler and her husband, Craig, moved into the Paradise Lakes Condominiums complex in 2012 with Laura. However, after they had settled in, Sharongot a letter from the property’s management that was very upsetting, as WTSP 10 News reports. She was told that because Laura, a black Labrador, was over the 25-pound weight limit, she needed to go. This, despite...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A nudist-colony controversy has heated up after the community ousted a man whose generator blew up and set him on fire. Paul Kuschel and his wife, Carol, enjoyed baring it all at Sunnier Palms Park, WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach reported. The natural way of life seemed to agree with the couple until two weeks ago when Kuschel was setting up his trailer in the nudist colony and his generator exploded, burning him all over. "I had shorts on, but it would have been better if I didn't because they melted to my body. I...

Bill Van Keuren shouldn't have had any trouble selling his family's house. It's a three-story colonial with a formal dining room, thick mahogany doors, leaded-glass windows and an enclosed porch. A spring-fed lake is just steps away, past two tennis courts and a hot tub. The house sits on 145 acres of pristine Sussex County woodlands in a naturist resort. It is priced very attractively at $395,000. Still, it has languished on the market for more than a year, even as its price has been reduced from $450,000. How can such a home defy the roaring real estate market in...