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So, you're thinking of catching up on some reading this summer? Well, you're not alone. Amazon.com has come out with its list of the most well-read cities in America. The website created its rankings by looking sales of books, magazines and newspapers in print and on the Kindle since January 1 of this year.

Charles Imwalle is suing for a pretty penny. Or should we say a prickly penny.

When nature calls, Mary Ramos Martin would prefer you didn’t answer. Police arrested the Immokalee, Florida woman after she stabbed her boyfriend Saturday when they got into an argument over how long he spent in a bathroom.

A man in Jensen Beach, Florida got picked up by police before he picked up any chicks. Twenty-year-old Anthony Hernandez admitted to police he stole an 18-pack of Bud Light from a 7-Eleven on Monday in the hopes he could use the beer to "score some women."

William Hendrix Jr. takes his yard work very, very seriously. WESH reports the 55-year-old man from Deland, Florida continued doing chores around his house Monday after he found the body of a man who he'd taken in as a boarder.

Kids may not like the food in their school lunchrooms, but two men in Key West, Florida sure do. WTSP reports police recently arrested Lawrence Dixon and Carl Dudley Crabtree for stealing 30 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets from a high school cafeteria freezer.

Someone buy John Calvery a dictionary because he needs to learn the definition of "emergency." According to cfnews13.com, police in Port Orange, Florida arrested the 57-year-old man last Friday after he called 911 about 80 times in a five-hour period. Authorities said he dialed in once every three minutes.

You'd have to think that a man who works at a Sears in Sarasota, Florida was given the boot after he was caught stealing from the store. The Herald-Tribune reports the unidentified 18-year-old man stole a pair of boots from the store in the DeSoto Square Mall – and then wore them to work.

Law enforcement officials are trained to deal with most scenarios. But an alligator attacking a police car? That's a different story. According to reports, a rascally 10-foot alligator took a bite out of an Alachua County sheriff deputy's vehicle in Florida. The creature was reportedly spotted attacking the patrol car near a country club in Gainesville. The deputy watched the carnage as he waited

You can't be too careful these days. You hear the stories all the time about strange things discovered in out of the way places, strange people doing unusual things, suspicious e-mails, and even packages that put people on edge. That was the case in Orlando, Fla. when a package delivered to a hotel and convention center resulted in a call to the bomb squad.

Elmer McGirt, a homeless man living in Tampa, FL, pulled a Robin Hood Thursday when he robbed an area Wachovia bank, then distributed some of his ill-gotten gains to the passengers on a city bus. Yes, that means the 27-year old also made the unconventional choice to use public transportation as his getaway vehicle.

The golden arches must have been beckoning 64-year-old Roberta Spen something fierce on Monday. Instead of pulling over after a police car turned on his lights behind her, the Coral Springs, FL, woman nonchalantly ventured through the McDonald's drive-thru to order lunch.