PANAMA CITY - Red Tide is suspected in a Panhandle bottlenose dolphin die-off that has killed 97 of the marine mammals.
Two more dolphins washed ashore Friday on Rosemary Beach and in St. Joe Bay. All the dolphins have washed up between Franklin and Santa Rosa counties.
Officials believe Red Tide or a related biotoxin is to blame, although scientists have yet to make a final determination.
Red Tide is a toxic alga bloom known to kill sea life. Test results returned recently from samples of fish carcasses in the area also show evidence of Red Tide, officials said.
Psychic warning prompts bomb search of airliner
FORT MYERS - A psychic's warning that a bomb might be on a Dallas-bound passenger jet at Southwest Florida International Airport prompted federal and local officials to search it with bomb-sniffing dogs.
Nothing suspicious was found on American Airlines Flight 1304, but the delay Friday caused the flight to be canceled because some crew members had exceeded their work hours when the search was finished, officials said.
Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual."
"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said.
