Florida Today Newspaper

By the time the two reporters arrived at the Hickory Avenue housing project, the apartment of jailed murder suspect Anita Gonzales was a mound of rubble--broken furniture, scattered clothes, a jumble of paper and trash. The police had come and gone, declaring the small duplex plucked clean of evidence. Then came the public, traipsing through the open door to scavenge in the untended debris.

By the time the two reporters arrived at the Hickory Avenue housing project, the apartment of jailed murder suspect Anita Gonzales was a mound of rubble--broken furniture, scattered clothes, a jumble of paper and trash. The police had come and gone, declaring the small duplex plucked clean of evidence. Then came the public, traipsing through the open door to scavenge in the untended debris.

A small amount of cocaine was found here in a hangar where space shuttles are readied for launch, NASA officials said Sunday. Space agency spokesman Karl Kristofferson said the drug was found early Friday in an orbiter processing facility, one of two at the space center. It is the first time cocaine has been found at the Kennedy Space Center.

Terry Love and Irving Campbell, 19-year-old freshmen receivers at Michigan State, were arrested Tuesday morning and charged with possessing a dangerous chemical compound after they allegedly planted homemade bombs that blew up outside campus apartments in East Lansing, Mich. The men said they planted the bombs as a prank, campus police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. No one was hurt and there was no property damage. The players were released on $500 bond after being arraigned.

The story had people sizzling mad. And that sizzle spread across the country like a forest fire. Major league baseball, its image already damaged by labor problems, was sinking to a new low by going after its youngest fans, cracking down on Little Leaguers by forcing them to pay an additional $6 per uniform. It was outrageous. It was unconscionable. It also appears to be untrue. The story first appeared in the Florida Today newspaper and was picked up and run nationally by the Associated Press.