News Notes From Florida -

During a recent Wednesday evening rush hour, two women reportedly hailed a taxi cab in Fort Lauderdale and asked the driver to take them to several locations.

Then, events took an unexpected twist, when one of the women began choking the driver from the backseat while the other repeatedly struck him in the face before taking money out of his pocket.

The two women have been arrested for allegedly robbing and brutalizing the taxi cab driver and carjacking his vehicle, leaving him penniless and stranded.

The police have declined to
disclose how the women were found.

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A French family's legacy may go
to the accused killer's wife in Florida.

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Naples FL police have arrested a 12-year-old girl for placing a bomb threat note in the local public library's book return depository box.

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