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Florida Father Learns Fate Following ‘Tortuous Death’ of Tot Left in Hot Car
Top Stories Tamfitronics A Florida father will serve a 20-year prison sentence after he and his wife abandoned their 18-month-old daughter in a car during intense summer heat last year.According to FOX News Tampa Bay, Joel Rondon, 34, admitted guilt to aggravated manslaughter of a child in his daughter’s 2023 death. Judge Jalal Harb sentenced him on Friday.Rondon tested positive for methamphetamine, marijuana, and alcohol, while his wife, Jazmine Rondon, tested positive for marijuana and alcohol.The couple left their toddler unattended overnight after coming home from a Fourth of July celebration.As CrimeOnline previously reported, an autopsy concluded that victim died of hyperthermia. Her parents were subsequently charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child.“This child is 18 months old,” Polk County sheriff Grady Judd said in 2013. “She is not old enough...
Florida is nearing toss-up status as top Republican poll shows Trump’s lead nearly vanished
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Florida woman kills wild boar with mango. (This is not a meme.)
Politics tamfitronics Carol Etscovitz knows the exact moment she transformed into a Florida woman: the night she killed a boar with a mango.She’d just been wandering through Promised Land, the name of the 300-tree, 40-acre property she owns with her husband, David. Their tract of land is tucked away in the subtropical vegetation of Pine Island, Florida, a massive, mangrove-ringed barrier island just off Cape Coral on the state’s Gulf side.It’s full of razorbacks. Hundreds of boars and sows roam Pine Island, scrunching their snouts into burrows and feasting on fermenting fruit. Locals often patrol the island, sometimes shooting, sometimes trapping dozens of these feral pigs to get rid of them. (It’s legal to hunt and kill wild boars year-round in the Sunshine State.)Politics tamfitronics Why We Wrote ThisA story focused onFlorida calls itself a...
The 1998 Florida Firestorm and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
NASA Space Technology East central Florida’s natural environment and climate have shaped, and delayed, Kennedy Space Center launch operations since the 1960s. Torrential pop-up thunderstorms, Atlantic hurricanes, roasting heat, and other climatic phenomena, including lightning and fire, repeatedly hampered mission timelines and created dangerous conditions for astronauts and workers.Kennedy Space Center personnel understood the dangers of lightning strikes all too well by 1998. In 1969, two bolts famously struck the Apollo 12 launch vehicle shortly after liftoff. A few years earlier, a worker was killed when lightning hit a Kennedy launch pad. These and other events motivated NASA to install new lightning rods and create new launch procedures.The opening segment of this video highlights the two lightning bolts that struck the Apollo 12...
