DENVER, Jan.

Police in Florida said a suspicious package that sparked a bomb squad call turned out to contain a living cat. Orange County Sheriff's deputies said they responded to a call about a suspicious package Thursday shortly after 11 a.m.

A Florida school began classes 90 minutes late Tuesday because officials were struggling to open doors that had been glued shut by teenagers. Nancy Wait of Volusia County Public Schools said a surveillance video recorded three teenagers gluing the doors of Pine Ridge High School in Deltona shut overnight

A Florida man who littered his yard with junk including toilets and a statue of buttocks has been released from prison after serving four years. Alan Davis of Seminole County was originally convicted in 2003 on a felony criminal littering charge for what he called a political protest, In 1999, he began covering the roof and yard of his home with toilets, airplane parts, scrap metal, a giant statue of buttocks and other objects his neighbors found objectionable.

A Florida man said he is offering a reward in the thousands for the return of a $375,000 diamond ring he dropped from a pier.