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Compiled from Times wires 181 get sick on cruiseFORT LAUDERDALE -- Nearly 200 people on a Port Everglades-based cruise ship contracted a stomach virus on a Caribbean cruise that ended Monday. None of the 163 passengers or 18 crew members who became sick on Holland America's Amsterdam had to be hospitalized, said cruise spokeswoman Rose Abello. But 25 passengers had to leave the ship at stops. The illness was identified as a common virus that causes diarrhea and vomiting. Although it can be passed through food and water, officials determined that it was contracted from person-to-person contact on the ship. Workers spent more than 10 hours scrubbing down the ship Monday before it departed on another 10-day Caribbean cruise, Abello said. Suspect wrecks cruiserFORT LAUDERDALE -- A 15-year-old handcuffed in the back of a patrol car crawled into the driver's seat and took a 10-minute joyride Monday before crashing, causing at least two collisions that injured three others, officials said. Herbert Marlin Johnson was treated at Broward General Medical Center and released into deputies' custody. Two women and a man were also treated at hospitals. Deputies responding to a burglary call arrested Johnson after a foot chase. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of the cruiser. Deputies say they don't know how he moved his restrained hands from behind his back to in front of his body before he pried open a partition separating the back and front seats, climbed into the driver's seat and took off. Fall off hotel balcony fatalPENSACOLA BEACH -- A Mississippi woman died when she fell eight floors from a hotel balcony, authorities said. Emily K. Chapel, 26, of Pascagoula was posing for a picture on a balcony railing at the Dunes Hotel Sunday when she fell, hitting the concrete edge of the hotel's pool, Escambia sheriff's deputies said.
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