Florida Enquirer

A dangerous game in Pasco County

fl — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:02:16 +0000

Armed and dangerous

fl — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:44:29 +0000

Armless driver in trouble again
Wendy Wiley has spent 18 years married to a man who cannot tie his shoes or pour himself a drink, who twice kicked a state trooper with his one good leg, who refused to let the loss of both arms stop him from becoming one of Pasco County’s most notorious traffic violators.She fed him. Dressed him. Took the blame when he fled from a crash. She raised their daughter while he was in prison. She stood by him till the day he attacked her.

Now prosecutors want to send Michael Wiley to prison for five years on drug and illegal-driving charges. And his wife is on their side.

“I’d like to see him get the five years,” Wendy Wiley said last week. “If not more.”

Mummified baby found in suitcases

fl — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:21:52 +0000

A woman cleaning out her deceased parents’ storage unit discovered a partially mummified baby boy - possibly born in the late 1950s - inside a suitcase and wrapped in the January edition of a 1957 newspaper, police said.

The baby was wrapped in newspapers and placed inside the suitcase, which in turn had been packed into a larger suitcase and stored inside the unit at Security Self Storage, 189 Linton Blvd., police said.
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The remains were wrapped inside the Jan. 9, 1957 edition of a paper identified only as the Daily-Times, which could have been from New Jersey or New York.
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The child’s body was fully intact, had hair on its head and had “little fat cheeks,” Messer said, calling the discovery “spooky.”

Boynton woman sparks lawsuit against Capri Sun

fl — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:39:58 +0000

Boynton woman sparks lawsuit against Capri Sun
The chief plaintiff in a deceptive-packaging lawsuit against Kraft Foods Inc. applauded a company statement Monday that said the phrase “all natural” will soon be removed from packets of its Capri Sun juice drink.

‘Tigger’ loses his stripes

fl — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:38:02 +0000

MiamiHerald.com | 01/08/2007 | ‘Tigger’ loses his stripes
Walt Disney World officials have suspended a man who was in costume as the character Tigger after he allegedly hit a child, a Disney spokeswoman said.

Bookcase turns on TV viewer

fl — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:24:36 +0000

Woman found dead behind her bookcase

Armed Cartoonist Arrested at Miami Herald Building

fl — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:07:19 +0000

Gunman Arrested at Miami Herald Building

Daddy’s Girl

fl — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:49:45 +0000

Fisher Island millionaire Bruce McMahan loved his daughter so much, he married her.

Florida’s elusive ‘Skunk Ape’ back in the news

fl — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:21:22 +0000

Judy Caseley of Foxboro, Mass., said she snapped the fuzzy photo of the gorilla-like creature walking through Big Cypress National Preserve on a hot July afternoon five years ago, but kept the images to herself because she didn’t think people would believe her.

Churro vendor, 76, bilked by attorney

fl — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:29:09 +0000

Stephen Hill Nelson, 55, an attorney with Nelson & Freedlander in Miami, turned himself in to Sweetwater police at 3 p.m. Nelson is charged with grand theft of more than $100,000, 10 counts of money laundering and forging a check.