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Police Search For Arsonists Who Damaged Famous Key West Landmark Police Search For Arsonists Who Damaged Famous Key West Landmark
Police Search For Arsonists Who Damaged Famous Key West Landmark Police were searching for two arsonists who burned the iconic Southernmost Point buoy in Key West before dawn on New Year's Day. Video from a local marketing company shows the pair sitting next to the buoy, taking cellphone photos and then setting fire to a Christmas tree in front of the 4-ton cement monument that marks the southernmost point in the continental United States, 90 miles from Havana, Cuba, around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The fire left an enormous burn mark on the red, yellow, black and white landmark. SEE: Southernmost Point Webcam Sure enough, tourists continued to take photos …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'More Active' Hurricane Season Projected For Atlantic Basin 'More Active' Hurricane Season Projected For Atlantic Basin
'More Active' Hurricane Season Projected For Atlantic Basin With the June 1 start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season fast approaching, weather experts are offering their predictions on what to expect. Researchers at North Carolina State are calling for a "significantly more active" hurricane season than the overall averages from 1950 to now, predicting 14 to 18 named storms. Scientists at Colorado State University anticipate that the 2018 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have "a slightly above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean." The Weath…

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by Joe Lombardi