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Wii-Bowling Drug Cops Get Off Lite
2:40PM Owen Good | A-member them law enforcement perfesshunals in Florida who killed time on a raid by bowling up big scores on a drug kingpin’s Wii? Well, 11 of them got sanctioned for their conduct, but not too hard, now. More »
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DS Games Help Send Florida’s Lamest Fugitve Back To The Can
10:30AM Owen Good | Not sure who looks worse, Lee Co., Florida, for being unable to catch this guy, or Daniel Larson himself, their No. 1 fugitive, caught after he strolled into a Walmart and stuffed a bunch of DS games down his pants. More »
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Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid
12:00AM Owen Good | Guns drawn, cops busted down the door of a suspected south Florida drug dealer, then proceeded to kick some arse — on Wii bowling. A security cam captured some playing video games while others searched for drugs and weapons. More »
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GameStop Robber Demands Madden By Name
12:40PM Owen Good | “Small, unmarked bills” is the clichéd demand of an armed robber. Not in Jacksonville, Fla. A holdup artist told a GameStop employee to fill his bag with games—Madden NFL 10, to be precise. More »
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Sell A Used Game In Florida, Leave Your Thumbprint
6:00AM Owen Good | The sheriff of Broward County, Fla. (Fort Lauderdale) says Florida law requires him to treat used games the same as merchandise sold at pawn shops. That means sellers can’t go home with their cash (or store credit) without leaving a greasy smudge. More »
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ASCII Fighter II Super Hyper Text-Based Championship Edition
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Earlier this year, five students from the University of Central Florida had to design a networked, text-based multiplayer game for their programming class. This, amazingly, is what they came up with. More »
Teens Charged in Death Over PSP
3:00AM Brian Crecente | Two teenagers have been charged in the death of James Felton-Maitland, 17, who was hit by a truck in Miami and killed while running from the teens bent on stealing his Playstation Portable, Miami-Dade police said. Police sayd that Jamila “Jam” Brown, 19, and Keith Lebrone Goa, 17, spotted Felton-Maitland as he walked from North Dade Regional Library on Dec. 27 with a PSP in his hand. The two knocked the teen to the ground and “beat him while attempted to take custody of the PSP,” according to the arrest report. The teen managed to escape with his PSP and ran across a street where a truck slammed into him, causing severe head trauma. He died Jan. 5. Initially the Florida State Patrol ruled the death an accident, but the family hired a private detective and pamphleted the neighborhood with flier seeking witnesses. After tracking down the teens who allegedly tried to rob the boy, they handed their information over to the Miami-Dade Police Department. The teens, one of which later confessed, were arrested on charged of second-degree felony murder and strong-arm robbery. In Florida, anyone who commits a violent felony that results in death can be charged with murder. 2 charged in teen’s death over PlayStation [Miami Herald] More »
