Coral Springs Middle School Students Got Off at Wrong Stop Voluntarily, School District Transportation Department Says

A group of Forest Glen Middle School students from Coral Springs missed their scheduled stop and voluntarily got off their bus in another city, the Broward County Public Schools Transportation Department said Tuesday.

Samantha Cisneros, 10, and her parents had said that she was one of seven middle school girls who were dropped off at Broward Health North in Pompano Beach on the first day of school Monday. Samantha Cisneros said that she and the other students told the driver he had passed their destination and she asked him to stop, but he kept driving.

But the school district’s Transportation Department said that the bus made its scheduled stops, including the one in question on Riverside Drive in Coral Springs. The bus stopped on the northbound side instead of the southbound side, and several students told the driver they didn’t recognize the stop, the department said in a statement.

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Miami’s Santeria Source: Allapattah Warehouse Brews Religious Potions

The perfume stores on NW 20th Street in Allapattah are typically painted with bright colors. Tucked between discount clothing stores, they beckon with pink and orange exteriors as well as promises of bargains painted on their fronts.

Selene Perfumeria is less inviting. With it’s gray façade, it looks like an extension of the window-tinting place it abuts. Employees enter using a room-length sliding-glass door, but no such option exists for potential customers. All curious onlookers can do is watch little old ladies manipulate tiny bottles with gnarled hands, engulfed by an overpowering scent of laundry detergent.

There’s no way to get inside, excepting through a side door that’s blocked by two industrial fans. And bypassing them means getting coated with Discharge. Literally.

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Scott Urges Feds To Step Up Funding For Damaging Lake Okeechobee Release

Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday pledged $40 million to speed up a project intended to help clean up polluted Lake Okeechobee water that has poured into the St. Lucie River this summer, triggering toxic algae blooms, killing oysters and sea grass and angering residents and tourists.

But the governor placed most of the blame for the worsening disaster in the St. Lucie, and a similar mess in the Caloosahatchee River on the southwest coast, on the federal government.

In a letter sent Tuesday to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Scott criticized it for “inaction” on repairing the deteriorating dike around the massive lake and for failing to adequately fund water quality and Everglades restoration projects that could help reduce periodic damaging releases of lake water.

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