Home were Jeff Bush was swallowed by a sinkhole (via abcnews.com).

Last Thursday, 37-year-old Jeff Bush was swallowed whole by a sinkhole that appeared under his bed in his Tampa home.

The sinkhole was reportedly 30 feet wide and 60 feet deep, and, tragically, Bush has yet to even be found. The last anyone heard from Bush was when the other occupants of the home heard him screaming from his bedroom after a loud crashing noise, caused by the hole.

And now comes a report that a second sinkhole appeared a few miles away from where Bush was swallowed up.

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Donnie McLendon

Daniel McKee and Thomas Rady told St. Pete Police officers that they were hanging out, drinking and smoking some pot when a home invader broke into their place in the 1100 block of 32nd Avenue North.

They told cops that this home invader shot their friend, Donnie McLendon, 26, in the head and that Rady heroically "bumped" the perp and somehow forced him to drop his gun. Seeing how a guy can make him drop his weapon by simply bumping into him, the invader fled.

Oh, and by the way, none of that story is true because the three men were actually playing a game of Russian roulette and Donnie lost.

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According to the Florida Department of Children and Families that oversees the food stamp program, the number of food stamp recipients in Broward has dropped for first time in five years.

"These numbers just prove that in Broward County, things are getting better," said Florida Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Erin Gillespie. "People are getting jobs."

Are you sure, Ms. Gillespie? Maybe the numbers were COOKED.

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Put down that can of cake icing!

The U.S. annual fat report card was released Tuesday, and according to what it says, Florida will basically be one massive coronary with palm trees come 2030.

According to the report, Florida is on track to hit 58.6 percent in 18 years, which means health-care costs related to fat-people diseases, such as diabetes, stroke and blood-turning-to-gravy disease, will increase accordingly.

So stop eating that mayonnaise straight from the jar with a spoon and listen up!

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Speaker of the House Dean Cannon listens to infinity percent more Jay-Z than you probably would have guessed.

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John L. Mica

​A maddening story in the New York Times this morning about the House transportation bill has a Chicago placeline, but the real story is here in Florida. Specifically the seventh congressional district, which elected John Mica to Congress. This guy is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and now he's put forward a bill that even Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood calls "the worst transportation bill I've ever seen during 35 years of public service."More »

Gov. Scott, still think justice is colorblind?

​Last year, when Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet enacted an archaic ban on the voting rights of ex-felons, supporters called the ban colorblind. They said making nonviolent felons wait five years after completing their sentences to apply for the right to vote again had nothing to do with Florida's ugly history of suppressing African-American voters.

Well, a PBS documentary that aired last night begs to differ. Slavery by Another Name documents with chilling precision the South's history of arresting African-Americans for petty crimes such as vagrancy and then forcing them, without a trial, into years of hard labor. Such convict-leasing programs lasted 80 years after the Civil War, until the 1940s.

In Florida, African-Americans were forced to work in turpentine camps, on railroads, and in lumber yards. In the 1880s, it was illegal for an African-American man to changeMore »

​If you need affirmation that West Palm Beach is too rich rich for your blood, Forbes has you covered. More »

​For what it's worth, there are only two states in the nation with more registered sex offenders than Florida.

Florida's 57,896 sex criminals puts the Sunshine State behind only California (106,216) and Texas (68,529), and even though Florida's population is about 400,000 less than New York's, the Sunshine State is home to nearly 25,000 more sex offenders.

According to statistics released this week by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there's been an increase of 7,555 sex offenders nationwide since the last survey -- in June 2011 -- bringing the country to a grand total of 747,408.

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