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Dateline Florida

By TIMES WIRES
Published June 16, 2007

WERE THEY WORKING THEIR WAY UP TO THE MILE-HIGH CLUB?

A Punta Gorda police officer interrupted a couple's weekend sex romp on top of a 100-foot construction crane, but let them go with a warning. Police went to the construction site to investigate Saturday night after bystanders spotted the couple climbing into the cab of the crane. An officer commanded them to come down, but all the officer saw was a naked foot popping over the railing, police said. The officer noted the couple then got dressed and climbed down. The man, who worked at the site and had keys to the crane, told officers he was photographing the city skyline.

Rescue effort fails as baby dolphin dies

The calf of a stranded deaf Atlantic bottlenose dolphin died Friday morning at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in Key Largo. The male infant is being transported to a National Marine Fisheries laboratory for a necropsy, said Robert Lingenfelser, president of the Marine Mammal Conservancy. Veterinarians and volunteers nursed the calf through the night and administered drugs. "Everything that could have been done was done, " Lingenfelser said. "There is a profound sense of sadness here." The infant was born Monday to the deaf dolphin named Castaway, who originally stranded herself off Vero Beach in November and kept returning to the beach. Castaway was then moved to the Keys.

No hurricane, but rainstorms coming

Federal officials decided not to send a Hurricane Hunter aircraft from MacDill Air Force Base into a system of thunderstorms around Cuba on Friday, saying it's not likely to become a tropical storm. But the system will move north. Forecasters called for scattered thunderstorms around Tampa Bay today and Sunday.

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