Back in April, honor student Kiera Wilmot, made some waves when she was arrested for felony charges after she conducted a science experiment where she mixed some toilet bowl cleaner and some tin foil in a bottle and blew the cap off on school grounds. The experiment caused some smoke, but school officials thought Wilmot -- a student with an impeccable record -- had set off a bomb.

Authorities have since dropped the charges, although Bartow High School officials have inexplicably not yet decided if she can return to the school.

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Photo courtesy of Mercy for Animals

One of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The far mis a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.

This week's story, "The Ag Gag War," goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between animal rights groups and Big Agriculture.

For years organizations like the Humane Society and Mercy for Animals have being going undercover at America's largest farms, using hidden cameras to show exactly how our food is produced. The footage hasn't been pretty.

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Cue the trumpets and fanfare: today might be the day when the Boy Scouts of America finally cross into 21st Century. Sure, it's a little belated. For the last few years, the organization has taken flak from progressives for its ban on gay scouts and leaders. But today in Texas, the group's 1,400-member national council is set to vote on a provision that would end discrimination for member youths. News is expected to come later this afternoon.

Whatever the outcome, local scout leader James Happell is greeting the results with a mixed-bag of feelings. Today's vote definitely inches the organization forward - but does it go far enough?

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UPDATE: The original post to this story reported that that worker that was killed was a Port of Palm Beach employee. However, the man was working at the port, but was not a Port of Palm Beach employee.

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Natasha Myers is a beacon of street justice. She looks out for the every day working stiff who put their lives on the line by walking Florida streets and roads teeming with dangerous inconsiderate drivers.

And when Natasha sees a driver not yielding to pedestrians, AS IS THE LAW, they meet the swift fist of her vigilante justice.

And by that, we mean she keys a drawing of a dick on that person's car.

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Ronald Tyler (Broward Sheriff's Office)

Tow truck driver Ronald Tyler lets nothing get in his way when it comes to towing illegally parked cars throughout Fort Lauderdale.

Impossibly parked cars. Angry car owners. Babies.

NOTHING.

Tyler ran into one such baby when he tried to tow the one-year-old's dad's car. So he pepper sprayed the baby.

THAT'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S BOSS, BABY.

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Depending on where you come down on the whole animal-rights thing, you probably watched the video of Florida's finest d-bags jumping onto some innocent manatees with something between shock and rage. This week we posted the vid, some dumpster-grade Jackassery courtesy of two Cocoa Beach brainiacs. Thankfully, the federales have shown up to exert some big government-style enforcement. Which is great and all, but FLORIDA, YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW NOT TO RIDE THE POOR MANATEES.

See also:
- Florida Men Cannonball Onto Manatees, Post It On YouTube
- Florida Woman Illegally Rides Manatee Like a Horse in Siesta Key Waters

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The Indiana Pacers' Paul George had himself a coming out party. He led Indiana with 27 points, and hit an impossible 30-foot three-pointer to stun the Miami Heat and force overtime. Then, with just 2.2 seconds remaining in the OT, George hit three consecutive free throws to put the Pacers ahead.

And then LeBron James went ahead and completely obliterated all of those nice achievements in one fell swoop of massive soul sucking, dong smashing, Cobradicking atomic-powered game-crushing layup that shook the pillars of the heavens and made it rain blood in the streets of Indianapolis.

The Heat were able to take Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals in a nail-biting, nut-kicking 103-102 overtime victory.

Here are the three ways they got it done:

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Scott Simon

This just in from the Broward Sheriff's Office:

At 6:41 a.m. on May 5, "a man who orchestrated a murder on Interstate 95 'pocket dialed' 911 just before [a] fatal shooting. On a recorded line, Scott Simon can be heard telling someone else that he's going to follow the victim home and kill him. Minutes later, 33-year-old Nicholas Walker was shot and killed while driving his car onto the highway."

The killing occurred at the on-ramp to I-95 at Commercial Boulevard in Oakland Park, near Fort Lauderdale.

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Jose Canseco, batshit former MLB player, steroid a aficionado and noted time traveler, took to Twitter today to announce that he had been charged with rape.

The first tweet read as Canseco breaking the news to his own rape accusation, which is all kinds of mettamoron:

"Breaking news this is a first folks las vegas police was just at my house i have been charged with rape by a [REDACTED] from las vegas"

-- Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) May 22, 2013

We redacted the name of the woman in question to hide her identity. Also, Canseco has since deleted the tweet, although this is far from over.

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