Mystery Surrounds Sunken Remains in Florida Spring
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The skeletal ruins of a 19th-century steamboat could be the long-lost Madison, a ship believed to have been scuttled to keep it out of enemy hands.
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The installation - and vandalism - of a series of sculptures in Sarasota has raised questions of taste, art, and local identity.
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By Fred Hiers, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  May 30--OCALA -- Every few days, the Ocala National Forest is marred.  Piles of trash, abandoned boats and cars, leaking batteries and worn out tires  are illegally dumped, scarring the landscape like cancerous tumors.
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Human remains found in Mukilteo earlier this week were identified as those of a 49-year-old woman who disappeared from her condominium last summer, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner&#39;s Office said today.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 8--Military divers headed into the ocean off Fort Lauderdale this week to begin retrieving hundreds of thousands of tires dumped there 30 years ago in a failed attempt to create an artificial reef.
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Investigators probing the sodden ruins at a Charles County subdivision where fires destroyed 10 unoccupied new houses said yesterday that they had found no clear evidence
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of an unprecedented drought by removing life-choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 23--Sediment is still washing into Yellow Creek in Bath Township from a new spring, but the volume might have dropped slightly.   That assessment came Thursday from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
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By S.J  I REFER to the report "The life drains out of Pedu Lake" (NST, Jan 31).   The failure of the resorts at Pedu Lake has little or nothing to do with the discovery of old graves, lack of promotion or remoteness as claimed.
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MUKILTEO, Wash. -- Skeletal remains have been found in a wooded area of this suburb between Seattle and Everett, and police say they are likely from a cancer patient reported missing more than a year ago.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- An autopsy of remains found floating near the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi showed the cause of death was drowning.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour.   That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 10--BRADENTON BEACH -- The knee-deep stacks of rotting algae lining the beaches of Sarasota County have been sending the tourists north to Manatee County.
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A mysterious blue barrel. Divers searching the murky, frigid waters of an industrial canal. A woman's body exhumed for clues three years after her death.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by photographs that appear to show a skeleton jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast.
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After two years of forensic tests on remains held in Seville, Spain, that were thought to be the explorer's, the mystery endures.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  May 30--It's confirmed: Florida's deepening drought has dehydrated Lake Okeechobee to a record low.   The lake officially stood at 8.97 feet early Wednesday, matching its lowest level since record-keeping began in 1931.