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<p>ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida woman lit a cigarette, sparking an explosion of a propane barbecue grill being transported in her SUV.</p> <p>CBS affiliate WKMG-TV reports the vehicle was in front of the entrance to the Central Florida Fairgrounds when the explosion occurred on Sunday afternoon.</p>

An E. coli epidemic in Seattle and Kansas City and 19 other states? TB in New York and Manassas, Virginia? Leprosy in New Hampshire? Dengue Fever in Laredo? What's going on here? If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries. If we survey the anecdotal and sporadic official data of the past fifteen years, there is no doubt we are being invaded daily by dangerous diseases.

Traces of blood discovered on ancient arrowheads in Guatemala prove the Maya took part in bloody ceremonies to communicate with their gods. Bloodletting ceremonies involved piercing the earlobes, tongues and even genitals of willing participants and using the spilled blood to 'feed' their deities. The arrows were collected from five sites in the central American region, including a temple at Zacpetén where it's thought bloodletting ceremonies took place around 500 years ago.

Drug lord Luis "Tun Tun" Figueroa Hernandez, whose cartel is thought to have shipped more than $500 million worth of drugs to the mainland, may be sentenced to life in prison this week, when a New Jersey jury will seal his fate after his conviction on trafficking charges. With former associates testifying against him, the Ciales native also faces two separate murder trials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey this year. But, while the 37-year-old is being held in a federal prison stateside, members of his gang in Puerto Rico, suspected in nine murders here, have yet to be charged and...