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Jane Castor was fishing off the coast of the Florida Keys at the end of July with her family when they spotted a black package about the size of a microwave bobbing around.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and her family were out on a fishing trip when they discovered the package containing 70 pounds of cocaine, worth over one million dollars
Mayor Castor, the former Tampa police chief, was with family when they spotted $1.1 million worth of drugs.
Catrin Einhorn (The New York Times) writes about attempts to save Florida’s coral: “Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.” For full article and photographs by Jason Gulley, visit The New York Times. When Bailey Thomasson first spotted the coral, she felt…
Florida Keys, island chain, Monroe and Miami-Dade counties, southern Florida, U.S. Composed of coral and limestone, the islands curve southwestward for about 220 miles (355 km) from Virginia Key in the Atlantic Ocean (just south of Miami Beach) to Loggerhead Key of the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of