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Slidell Police on Monday (Dec. 28) arrested a suspect within minutes of an armed robbery at the Redfish gas station in the 3600 block of Pontchartrain Drive. Police say 32-year-old Elias Mendez tried to rob the gas station with a knife around 6:45 p.m. A clerk called 911 while the owner fought Mendez,

PENSACOLA, Fla.- A Florida woman suffered minor injuries Thursday when a fish she was trying to net for her husband pulled her off a pier into the ocean, observers say. Patricia Tenuto was trying to land a redfish her husband had hooked at a fishing pier at Pensacola Beach, Fla., the (Pensacola) News Journal reported. "The fish was in the net, almost to the pier, and it had a burst of energy," Tenuto said. "And it pulled me in with it. I was just hoping a boat wasn't coming." As she held onto a piling under the pier, her husband...

When jewfish attack By David Ball dball@keynoter.com The gentle giants are normally docile, but this particular one had attitude "It was just so fast. I just seen him turn, and then I just saw a bunch of bubbles and blood," local diver Bob Charles, 45, said after he was attacked Tuesday while spearfishing in Florida Bay. "I didn't realize my head was in his mouth until I was on the way to the hospital, and I saw the blood on top of my head," Charles continued. But the Cudjoe Key man's worst injury was his bruised and partially lacerated lip...