FAU President Mary Jane Saunders turned in a letter of resignation Tuesday, which the university's Board of Trustees Chair Anthony K.G. Barbar "regretfully" accepted.

Saunders' resignation ends a three-year tenure that has embroiled Florida Atlantic University in turmoil and controversy the past several months, including accusations of her sideswiping a student protester with her car, the school's so-called "Owlcatraz" stadium-naming controversy, and Professor James Tracy's espousing insane conspiracy theories.

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(photo via Kristin Bjornsen)

UPDATE: According to the Sun-Sentinel's Twitter feed, the bomb threat is being called a hoax

South Plantation High School is on lockdown due to a bomb threat.

Students have been cordoned off in a park across the street from campus.

Police is not is allowing anyone to leave.

Officers have set up a perimeter on surrounding streets.

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While much of the nation was asleep, Boston experienced madness as police identified and chased two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The suspects are said to be 19- and 20-something-year-old brothers who seem to have been living near Boston for at least a year based on internet clues such as references to one of them attending high school at the prestigious Cambridge Rindge & Latin school.

One suspect was killed during a crazy night that involved a gas station robbery, a carjacking, the tossing of explosive devices, and the death of two other public safety officers -- a university policeman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a transit officer.

The suspects are said to be from Chechnya. The surviving brother is named Dzhokar Tsarnaev -- he's the one in the white hat, pictured. The dead one's name is Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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The age of 24 hour cable news/Twitter feeds have come smashing together...

Via CNN, The Miami Herald had reported that Boston Marathon bombing investigators may have identified a suspect.

There had been reports of a possible suspect leaving a black bag at the site of the second explosion via surveillance video.

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Carlos Arredondo

Yesterday afternoon, New Times received this e-mail in response to our story highlighting Carlos Arredondo, now famous as the cowboy--hat-wearing man helping an injured man in a wheelchair to receive medical help after the Boston marathon bombings.

(The injured man was later identified as Jeff Bauman. The New York Times located him and reported that both of his legs were amputated.)

Dear Editor of the story on Carlos Arredondo...

You have just answer one of my many prayers.

My name is Adriana and I grew up in Weston,Fl. I've lived in Boston for the past year and yesterday I was lucky enough to volunteer at the Medical Tent at the Boston Marathon. I registered the patient that Mr.Arredondo helped to bring in the tent and I can only remember how helpful and calm he was during the whole process, he was helping me to get the patients last name and age. Out of all the people I saw either patients runner and victims he was one that stood out the most.

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Brewer's mug shot.

Michael Brewer, now 18, was arrested in West Palm Beach this morning on charges of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug equipment, according to the Miami Herald. More »

If you're seeing a bunch of news-media types on a beeline for Weston, there's good reason: Hugo Chavez, the charismatic and controversial president of Venezuela, passed away today.

The death occurred at 4:25 p.m., according to CNN. As well known for his U.S.-bashing and flamboyant behavior as his dictatorial strong arm, Chavez had won another six-year term last October.

He first came to power in 1998, immediately becoming a regional lightning rod, although his influence had waned in recent years due to declining health. He was diagnosed with pelvic cancer in June 2011. Chavez has been receiving medical treatment in Cuba on and off in the meantime, including a final surgery last December. The leader had not been viewed in public since, causing many to time-stamp his presidency.

The death was announced by Chavez's number-two man, VP President Nicolas Maduro.  Obviously, this news stretches over the country's borders to South Florida, and Broward in particular. Venezuelans make up the county's fastest-growing demographic, with Weston becoming a particular hot spot for Chavez's countrymen.

So that's why pretty much every news outlet is going to be heading to Weston right now for the reaction stories. Check back for more.

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KWTX.com

Linda Weston

A West Palm Beach man and four others have been indicted in Philadelphia for beating and locking several mentally disabled people in basement dungeons in three states for years at a time to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars of Social \Security benefits.

The 196-count indictment accuses West Palm Beach's Nicklaus Woodard, 26, of using drugs, isolation, food deprivation and pistol-whipping to help keep prisoners subdued. The group ran the dungeons -- places where mentally challenged inmates were threatened, starved and drugged -- in Killeen, Texas; West Palm Beach; and Virginia.

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Florida Atlantic University is reporting that an armed intruder has been spotted on their Boca campus.

Early reports say the intruder is in the Arts & Letters building. 

He is described is a black male, about five-foot-ten, with a muscular build. 

He is reportedly wearing white pants and a white shirt.

Police have ordered the campus on lockdown.

Update [4:15 p.m.] The lockdown has been lifted and the all-clear given.

Update [4:00 p.m.]: The FAU Boca campus remains on lockdown. No injuries have been reported. According to the FAU student-run paper, police are now letting cars out of the campus without a search. No cars are being allowed to enter the campus.  

Update [2:20 p.m.]: The intruder was involved in an armed robbery at the Arts and Letters building on the Boca campus. The intruder reportedly placed a gun to a student's head and then fled on foot after robbing the victim.

The campus is still on lock down, while cars are being allowed to exit the school via the 10th and 13th street exits only. All vehicles are being checked before leaving campus.

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King_of_miami via Twitter

UPDATE 3:45 P.M.: 

Capt Engel says: "We found the girl. She had a copper-colored gun lookalike that's a lighter."

Did the police and school security overreact or not? "I think that they did what was right, because you don't know. If you saw this thing, it looks just like a gun. If she pulled that on me, I'd shoot her. It looks like a small gun, like a .22."

Will she be charged with anything? "There's some things you could charge her with -- disrupting a school function, things like that, but

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