Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state. Republican Senator Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the ban.
Florida agricultural officials temporarily banned South African clementine oranges because moth larvae were found in shipments to the United States. Other citrus-producing states, including California and Arizona, took similar measures after the discovery of live larvae of the false codling moth in a shipment received at California border stations.
The prospect that a tropical storm and a hurricane — or possibly two hurricanes — could strike Florida on the same day is something meteorologists say they have never seen. ”It’s almost unheard of,” state meteorologist Ben Nelson said. Disaster officials are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley.