SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant Florida woman fatally stabbed her pit bull when it attacked two other dogs and then turned on her mother and sister.Pinellas County Sheriff's officials said in a news release that the attack happened Friday at the family's home in Safety Harbor, near St. Petersburg on Florida's Gulf Coast.Sheriff's spokesman Spencer Gross says Buster, the pit bull, started [...]

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MIAMI — A Florida teenager trying to enter Canada has been detained by U.S. border patrol agents who want to interview him in connection with the death of his grandmother.The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said at a news conference late Friday that the 15-year-old was stopped near Buffalo, New York.Officials in Florida started looking for the boy and his 53-year-old grandmother on Wednesday after they failed to pick up the teen's father at the airport. The father had [...]

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President and first day celebrate Thanksgiving in Florida, serve lunch to Coast Guard men and women