FOX 35's Blog

It’s been a busy week in the world of news!

A hostage freed after being held for nearly 6 years, the new 408 ramp aimed at easing congestion opened. Former idol Ace Young stopped by the fox 35 studio and Governor Charlie Crist pops the question.

But we want to know what's on your mind?

Gov. Charlie Crist announced his engagement to 38-year-old businesswoman Carole Rome. What do you think of the governor's move to get married now?

What would you think if one of your neighbors flipped his flag upside down? Would it offend you?

A woman toppled from her wheel chair and died inside a Brooklyn hospital.  The absurd part of the story is that no one inside the medical center did anything to help her.  From  5:42am until 6:35, the security tapes captures the security guards passing by, but no action to help the woman.

An hour after she went down, nurse checks on her- 3 minutes later help arrives- but the woman's already dead.

Then the hospital says a nurse tried to cover up the lack of care-saying the woman was just fine in the waiting room. Several staffers were fired.

We want your thoughts on this one.

What do you make of the video from Brooklyn.

Think firing the staffers is enough?

 

Joe Horn, 61, shot Hernando Riascos Torres, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30, in the back last November after he saw them crawling out the windows of a neighbor's house in Pasadena, a Houston suburb.

 Horn confronted the men with a 12-gauge shotgun after a 911 dispatcher pleaded with him not to go outside his house.

 A grand jury has decided to not charge Horn.

We want to know what you think concerning the grand jury’s decision not to indict the shooter.

Five year old Hailey Goranflo is fighting tremendous odds.
    
She has a rare medical condition: she can't walk talk or eat without a feeding tube. And she has terrible seizures.
    
Most kids like her don't live past 12. Her family hopes stem cell science in China can change her fate.

Hailey's family is from Kentucky. They went to Canada hoping to connect to China. But that’s when they say Air China and Air Canada turned them down.

We want to know; do you think an airline should be able to decide who's healthy enough to fly and who isn't?

Let us know what you think...

A man who auctioned his entire life -- his house, his car, his job, even his friends -- on eBay said Monday that he is disappointed with the selling price: almost $384,000.

Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on the online auction site after a painful breakup with his wife prompted him to want a fresh start.

Bidding closed Sunday and reached nearly $384,000 -- an amount Usher said his house in the western city of Perth was worth on its own.

"I guess I'm a little bit disappointed at the final price," Usher told Nine Network television on Monday. "I'd hoped it to be a little higher than that. But I am committed to selling and moving on and making a fresh start."

He declined to reveal the buyer's identity, or what his next step would be.

Usher said he had hoped to get at least $480,000 (a half-million Australian dollars) for his life -- his house and all its contents, car and a motorcycle, a jet ski, skydiving gear, an introduction to friends and a trial period in his sales job -- but that the final result was enough for him to make a new start in life.

We want to know, what are your thoughts?

How much do you think your life would be worth?

Charging for your extra luggage could soon extend, to your carry-ons.

Many of the big airlines are keeping watch on how much you take on board. They plan to have extra staff at those display boxes you know the ones where you can check and see if your carry-on fits in the overhead bin?

If your bag is larger, you could soon be paying an extra fee.

So what do you think?

Will you start packing lighter?

Will you just pay a fee?
    
Will you just refuse to fly the airlines who keep adding fees?
 

Do you think Wesley Snipes should be allowed to travel the world making movies while his lawyers appeal his federal tax convictions and three-year prison sentence?

The U.S. Supreme Court today outlawed putting child rapists to death, as long as they didn't kill their victims.

Time to blog this one. How do you feel about the Supreme Court's decision? Do you think executing a child rapist is fair, even if he/she is not a murderer?

A South Florida man lost his arm in an alligator attack near Lake Okeechobee over the weekend.

Kasey Edwards, 18, of Okeechobee, was swimming along a buoy line at the Nubbin Flough boat ramp around 2 a.m. on Sunday when the alligator bit his arm.

Edwards latched on to a nearby buoy and held on tightly as his armed was severed from his body.  

"I was just like holding on with everything I could for this gator trying to pull me under," said Edwards.  "I'd surface, get a gasp of air, and then he'd just shake again and pull me under. He did it about 5 times," added Edwards.

He was able to swim to the shoreline where he called friends for help. He was transported to Holmes Medical Center in Melbourne.

The alligators was trapped by officials with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.  Edwards' arm was recovered following a necropsy of the 11-foot reptile.

Edwards says he and his friends had been drinking, but insists that alcohol played no role in his decision to go for a swim in waters known to be infested with alligators.

Time to share your gator tales…

Have any of you had a close call?

Leaving your trash cans at the curb in St. Cloud could cost you.

Beginning July 1st the city will begin to enforce an ordinance allowing for fines if residents don’t roll their garbage cans back to their homes.

According to a city spokesperson they’ve gotten numerous complaints from residents about cans littering curbs in neighborhoods for days and weeks at a time.

Think trash can fines are a good idea?
A great way to clean up neighborhoods?

Or a big waste of time and money.

Fill us in...

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will campaign together next week. An effort to slap a band-aid on the rift some say they sliced right through Democratic Party.

Some of you love that idea-

And we bet some of you flat out hate it.

Let us know what you think.
 

The Cocoa Beach City council is deciding whether or not to put signs to warn people of the skin cancer risks.  The big idea came from the World Skin Cancer Foundation.  The city council is voting on it tonight.  

We haven’t heard the result, but what do you think?  What would you think of signs reminding you of skin cancer?  Would you then be reminded to slap on the sunscreen or would you still bake in the sun?

Governor Crist said enough is enough.

He signed a law Tuesday saying no specialty license plates for three years.  

Think no new plates is a good idea for now?
Or no big deal?

Do you even own a specialty plate?
Which one?