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The Leon County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate a robbery that occurred Saturday at the IGA store, 9019 Woodville Highway. The robbery occurred about 10 p.m. when two men with handguns approached two people as they were leaving the store and demanded money. The victims had no money, but the armed men made them go back into the store. The men stole cash and some items from the store and left. No one was injured. A deputy and his dog tracked the robbers for about 20 yards and then discovered a fresh set of tire tracks. One man was wearing a black ski mask, and the other had on a blue bandanna. Anyone with information can call LCSO at 922-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 574-8477. Teen charged with making false emergency calls: A 13-year-old Fairview Middle School student has been charged with making false 911 calls involving the Leon County Sheriff's Office and the Tallahassee Police Department, LCSO spokesman Rob Reisinger said Monday.
'Mr. Floyd' Culver, delivered DN, Inky
NOBODY AT the Daily News or Inquirer ever called Floyd Culver anything but "Mr. Floyd." "That's the kind of respect we had for him," said Bob Palmo, district circulation manager for the papers as he talked about a man who had been selling the papers in the streets of the city since 1947. He was still selling them through helpers until a few weeks ago. After all, he was only 100 years old. "He still wanted to be involved," Palmo said. "But about five weeks ago, he called me and said, 'I can't do it anymore.'" Mr. Floyd, who began his working life on a pecan farm in Alabama, served as a cook in the Navy in World War II, and had been a loyal ambassador for the Daily News and Inquirer for six decades, died yesterday. He had turned 100 on Oct. 3. Well into his 90s, Floyd loaded up the sturdy bicycle he bought in 1954 with newspapers, along with his cane, and would ply the streets of Center City and South Philadelphia, delivering hundreds of papers to the customers he loved.
Master Naturalists Hear Call of the Great Outdoors
Volunteer opportunities include helping at nature centers and parks, at plantings or in one of the many wildlife projects we do, he said. Just to name a few, were helping reforest the Bahia Grande, weve revegetated Ramsey Park in Harlingen with over 3,000 native plants, and we play an important role in taking sea turtle eggs to a coastal laboratory and releasing them into the water when they hatch. Mattei said the possibilities to explore and help nurture the great outdoors are endless. We do so much that the prospects for interacting with nature are as numerous as they are satisfying, she said. Jointly sponsored by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Texas Master Naturalist program begins with a 40-hour training course that includes classes and field trips.
Jupiter Island 'reviewing its options' to regulate the number of ...
State Road 707 winding north and south through the lush Town of Jupiter Island has long been a paradise for residents and area bicyclists, but that popularity is now causing concern for both. “It's one of the most beautiful roads in Martin County," said John Silvia, owner of Pro Cycles in Stuart. “And with the trees and the winding curves, it's one of the most popular biking roads as well." But the attributes luring cyclists to the meandering, canopied drive also make it dangerous for the competing modes of travel, said Town Director of Public Safety Chief Ted Gonzales. Gonzales recently sent a letter to area bicycle shops and clubs in an attempt to reach out to the groups and urge riders to comply with the rules of the road, informing them the town commission is “reviewing its options" to regulate the number of cyclists that can ride together in a single group in order to make the town “as safe as possible." Gonzales said the town sees some 800 cyclists in groups of 40 to 75 pedaling through town on the weekends — some of whom disregard stop signs and ride three and four abreast, he said.
COMICS REVIEW / 'Real': The manga that thinks it's about basketball
Turning to the last page of Vol. 7 of Real, I found myself saddened and disappointed. Takehiko Inoue, the artist and writer behind this manga, seemed at first to be cashing in on his hugely successful Slam Dunk series, which was about a basketball team, by having Real be about a wheelchair basketball team. Sensing a retread, I had opened Vol. 1 of Real with lowered expectations. Boy, was I wrong. And so was the publishing company for promoting this as a sports manga. Yes, the story (which has sold 9 million copies so far) centers on the Tokyo Tigers, a wheelchair basketball team struggling to become the top of its division. Despite this being the setting, though, the story is much more of a so-called human drama in which the characters deal with their disabilities, be they physical, mental or--in the case of character Nobuhisa Takahashi--personality-based.
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