Authorities say two British visitors were killed in Fort Lauderdale when a Porsche believed to have been in an illegal street race jumped a curb and plowed into them. ...more

February 15, 2009

Saturday's drowning of a 23-year-old man at the City Pier Beach should alert us to the potential dangers lurking in our lakes due to their present low lake levels. ...more

June 12, 2008

SEBRING — When Bobby Clark, 23, drowned at 3 p.m. Saturday, he stepped from shallow water into a 12-foot deep dredge hole, diver Preston Colby told city, county and state officials in a meeting Tuesday morning at city hall. Fire Chief Brad Batz, who was asked to investigate the Lake Jackson incident, said the hole used to be in a no-swim zone several hundred feet from City Pier Beach. The lake has lost so much water from two years of drought, however, the hole is now a few dozen feet from the beach. The hole was probably dredged in the 1960s to fill a park area behind the Civic Center park, City Manager Bob Hoffman said. "I think it's a man-made hole." Batz said Clark knew the hole existed. ...more

June 10, 2008

The Eiffel Tower steps would have been the perfect compliment to The Door To Nowhere. ...more

November 25, 2007