Hace un par de semanas, el empleado de servicios públicos Eddie Bailey estaba viajando cerca del pueblo de Ona en el Condado de Hardee cuando vio un animal peludo en el tope de un poste. Enseguida notó que era un gato montés. ...more

June 4, 2008

To the untrained eye, the big lump of fur lumbering around the pool area at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando could have been a drunken, fur-coated rock star stumbling about on all fours. But the keen eyes of security recognized it for what it was early this morning. There was a Florida black bear near the pool, oh, my, and it wasn't a refugee from the Country Bear Jamboree at nearby Walt Disney World, either. This was a genuine bruin from the wilds of Orange County. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA - The state wildlife commission today identified the two teenage boys injured when their personal watercraft ran under a dock on Egypt Lake on Saturday as James and Benjamin Parker, both of Tampa. ...more

May 25, 2008

Two teens riding a personal watercraft on Lake Egypt this afternoon are at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...more

May 24, 2008

Seventy-seven people died in Florida boating accidents last year, and here's the typical victim: ...more

May 20, 2008

Luna Bella is like most 10-year-old youngsters: curious to the point of getting into trouble. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - The most common Florida boating fatality last year was a man 36 to 50 years old who was ejected from a gasoline-powered, propeller-driven boat after noon in March -- who could swim but drowned -- and had no formal boating education. ...more

May 19, 2008

TAMPA - State wildlife investigators were to be at Busch Gardens today to find out how an orangutan busted out of the new Jungala exhibit Saturday. ...more

May 19, 2008

A man found Saturday floating near an alligator that had been feeding on his remains drowned, according to an autopsy Sunday. ...more

May 18, 2008

LAKELAND - Divers are trying to remove a body found floating this morning near an alligator in a canal of Saddle Creek Lake, the sheriff's office reported. ...more

May 17, 2008