SARASOTA - A man who called police after he said he came home to find his parents dead now is accused of killing them, officials said.
Blaine Ross, 21, was being held Saturday night at the Manatee County jail without bail. Sheriff's Office investigators said Ross confessed late Friday to killing his parents with an aluminum baseball bat.
Divers searched the Manatee River on Saturday in an attempt to recover the bat. The search will resume today, officials said.
The bodies of Richard A., 54, and Kathleen M. Ross, 52, were found Wednesday.
Richard Ross was a nuclear medicine technologist at Edward White Hospital in St. Petersburg. Kathleen Ross did not work outside the home, neighbors said.
Survey: Miami stressed
MIAMI -In a survey based on divorces, suicide rates and other factors, Miami came second in a list of stressful cities.
Topping the list is Tacoma, Wash. The others in the top five are New Orleans, Las Vegas and New York City.
Fast Forward Inc. produces the BestPlaces Web site, which released the survey Friday.
Miami earned its spot at No. 2 on the list thanks to having the highest violent crime rate in the study and among the highest scores in property crimes, long commute times and unemployment and divorce rates, according to the survey of 331 cities.
Tying for least stressful were the tri-city areas of Albany-Schenectady-Troy in New York and Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle in Pennsylvania.
Ex-inmate gets $500,000
FORT LAUDERDALE - A federal jury awarded $500,000 to a woman whose life-threatening tubal pregnancy was misdiagnosed while she was serving a 60-day jail sentence.
Attorney Jeffrey A. Norkin said Charleen Foree's left ovary and fallopian tube ruptured because treatment was delayed when nurses at the Broward County jail diagnosed the cause of her pain as constipation and venereal disease.
Foree, 38, was sent to the North Broward Jail in Pompano Beach on April 17, 2000, after failing to appear in court to answer a cocaine-possession charge.
Foree was released May 26 and sent to a halfway house. The next day, she was taken to a hospital, where the tubal pregnancy was diagnosed.
