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A Florida man who broke into a home Sunday hid in a pile of construction insulation before he was arrested by responding officers. Bruce Davis allegedly broke into a home in North Fort Myers in an attempted residential robbery and was still inside the property when deputies arrived on the scene, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff joked that Davis, 44, got himself “stuck in an itchy situation” in a press release about the encounter. The would-be burglar climbed into the house’s attic and buried himself under the itchy insulation while officers searched the home. The sheriff’s office...

For the past few weeks, usually in the middle of the night, I have been hearing some kind of animal running around, scratching, etc. in my attic. I asked the maintenance guys to go up into the attic to have a look for damage, points of entry, etc. They went up there and reported no holes. They had put a small Havahart trap up there baited with peanut butter, but nothing was caught in there. I told them to remove that, as I didn't want anything getting trapped and then starving. I threw a bunch of bags of mothballs up...

Published August 10, 2017 Fox News NOW PLAYING State Department: Our position on North Korea hasn't changed Close “Only in Florida.” That is what a Florida man said after he found a 6-foot-long boa constrictor that had been living unnoticed in his attic. Bob van der Herchen told FOX13 that he saw a portion of the snake in the ceiling. "I see it," van der Herchen said. "And I could only see about this much of it," he said while using his hands to make a small circle.

De Soto mother gets 8 1/2 years for keeping starving boy in atticBy JOE LAMBE Friday, May. 27, 2011 A Johnson County judge sentenced a De Soto woman to more than eight years in prison Thursday for starving her 6-year-old son and confining him in her attic. Rachel Perez, 27, pleaded guilty previously to child abuse and child endangerment and no contest to attempted second-degree murder. Judge Peter Ruddick quickly sentenced her to the maximum possible — 8 1/2 years — after hearing arguments from the lawyers on Thursday. It “is not a terribly long sentence for what happened to...

Excerpt only Website: New documents found in Anne Frank's family atticMore than 6,000 letters, photographs, and documents were recently found in the attic of the Frank family home.

WILKES-BARRE – An Arkansas man who police said stole food and clothing from a family in Plains Township while secretly living in their attic pleaded guilty to several charges Tuesday. Stanley W. Carter, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, two counts of criminal trespassing and two counts of receiving stolen property before Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Hugh Mundy. Carter was arrested on Dec. 26 after police said he had been staying in the attic for about a week and entering the home, owned by Stacey Ferrance, by going through a hatch in the ceiling when...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer. Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there. Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly. Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled...

Getting away with cultural cleansing...

'Buried' treasures uncovered Beneath a layer of black soot, hidden from the outside world for decades, are valuable treasures waiting to again see the light of day. "It's amazing. You never know what you're going to find," said auctioneer Joe R. Pyle, who has been selling antiques and collectibles since age 14. Now 40, Pyle's latest venture may perhaps be his biggest and most memorable sale ever - the estate of the late John Florida of Washington. Florida, who died in January at 85, was well-known throughout the area, especially by auctiongoers and antique collectors. He also was known for...